Henry VIII Religious change

Question 1

Criticism of church pre-1529

Answer 1

Corruption was common- especially with clergy(Wolsey)
Anti clericalism
Humanism and education
John Colet founded St.Paul’s school, London
Humanist influences had a lasting hold on unis but weren’t particularly wide spread

Question 2

Break with Rome

Answer 2

1530-34

Question 3

First Act of Annates

Answer 3

1532

Banned payments of annates to Rome( source of papal revenue in England)

Question 4

Supplication of the Ordinaries

Answer 4

March 1532

Clergy were to enact no church law without royal permission

Question 5

Act in Restraint of Appeals to Rome

Answer 5

February 1533
Justifying England’s independence from Rome
Cranmer declared marriage void

Question 6

First act of succession

Answer 6

March 1534
Marriage declared invalid
Treasonable offence to question marriage
Elizabeth heir presumptive and Mary illegitimate

Question 7

Act of Supremacy

Answer 7

November 1534

Henry justly and rightfully is Supreme ahead of the Church Of England

Question 8

Act for First Fruits and Tenths

Answer 8

Clerical taxes would go to the king

Question 9

1535-38

Answer 9

Further swing to Protestantism

Question 10

1535- execution

Answer 10

Execution of carthusian Monks, Bishop Fisher and Sir Thomas More
Much opposition to break with Rome quashed

Question 11

Disposition of lesser monasteries

Answer 11

Worth under £200 shut down

Feb 1536

Question 12

Act of Ten articles

Answer 12

July 1536
Seven sacraments of catholic doctrine were rejected
Only three( baptism, Eucharist, pennance)

Question 13

1537

Answer 13

Publication of Protestant Matthews Bible

Question 14

1538-46

Answer 14

Swing back to Catholicism

Question 15

Act of six articles

Answer 15

Confirmed Transubstantiation

Banned marriage of priests

Question 16

Act for dissolution of Greater Monasteries

Answer 16

June 1539

Question 17

Cromwell executed

Answer 17

July 1540

Question 18

Chantries act

Answer 18

December 1545

Allowed dissolution of chantries

Question 19

Dissolution of Monsateries

Answer 19

Wolsey dissolved 20 in 1520s
Cromwells 1535 survey, declared abuses in smaller monasteries
Did not fit in with Protestant theology
1534- Act of first Fruits and tenths allowed Henry to tax church
1536- lesser monasteries- sparked pilgrimage of Grace
1539- greater monasteries
Dissolution gave 10% of wealth in England
Half monastic lands sold off 1543-47 after cromwells fall

Question 20

Opposition to religious change

Answer 20

There was some but small minority so no real threat

Question 21

Sir Thomas More

Answer 21

Refused to swear oath of first succession act 1534

Executed for treason

Question 22

Aragonese faction

Answer 22

Opposition to church, sympathy towards Catherine of Aragon due to divorce
Small group of noble Darcy, Hussey, Marquis of Exeter
Coa excision in 2nd succession act- Darcy and Hussey supported pilgrimage of Grace
Both executed for treason

Question 23

Resistance within clergy

Answer 23

Bishop Fisher- against Henry’s divorce, pope declared fisher to become cardinal, Henry executed him for high treason
Elizabeth Barton,Nun of Kent- apparently saw visions, 1530- wider campaign support from More, Fisher, Hussey and Carthusian monks, executed 1534, confessed visions false
Monastic resistance- biggest example was Carthusian Monks, refused to accept divorce, after treason act 1533, monks forced to submit,18 executed