How did the relationship between the state and church change? Flashcards
Acts of Parliament:
- Sole right to grant taxation
- Sole right to pass laws
Monarch rights over parliament:
- Veto any laws
- Summon and dismiss parliament at will
Two chambers of parliament:
House of Lords and House of Commons
What was necessary to vote?
To own property which generated income worth 40 shillings per year
What was common for the nobility to do to ensure their clients were elected?
Exercise patronage
Why did Henry VII call Parliament mostly for?
Needed grants of taxation to fund wars
How many times did Henry VII summon Parliament?
7 times
Opposition from parliament to Henry VII:
Parliament of 1504, Henry was forced to accept a small sum in taxation than he asked for due to opposition from the Commons
Henry’s first parliament:
After his victory at Battle of Bosworth to enhance his claim to be king
What did Parliament pass a series of to convict Henry’s enemies?
Acts of Attainder
How many times did Parliament meet between 1509 and 1529 and why?
4 times, mainly to grant taxation to fund Henry VIII’s wars
Granting taxation in 1513:
Was not too difficult to persuade parliament as Henry’s wars were going well
Granting taxation in 1517:
Most of the initial gains made by Henry had been lost, parliament became less keen to grant increasing amounts of taxation
Thomas Wolsey and Parliament:
in 1524, Wolsey met stiff opposition from Commons to exact the amount of taxation he wanted
How much had taxation raised by 1523?
£288,814
How much had loans, which had not been repaid, totalled?
£260,000
Apart from the tensions in 1523, relations between the king and parliament remained…
Harmonious
What did Henry attempt to get from Parliament in 1529?
An annulment to his marriage to Catherine of Aragon
Head of the Catholic Church:
The Pope, placed in the position by God
What did the church teach were real places?
Heaven, Hell and Purgatory
How did the Church affect every aspect of ordinary people’s lives? (4)
- Children were baptised into the Church
- Church performed marriages and funerals
- Key source of alms
- Cared for the sick and elderly
Transubstantiation
During Mass, the bread and wine used for Communion becomes the body and blood of Jesus Christ
What was the Church the main source of?
Education and learning
What language were church services in?
Latin
What were boys offered the opportunity for? (2)
-Route to power and increase status
- Monasteries offered boys the opportunity to read and write and the opportunity to go to one of the two English universities, Oxford or Cambridge
What is an example of a career in Church allowing someone to rise to power?
Thomas Wolsey - Through Church education and career, he was able to rise to be Henry VIII’s Chancellor and chief minister
Before 1529, the relationship between the monarch and the church was…
Harmonious
What did tension arise from between the church and monarch before 1529?
Over the power and privilege of the church
Examples of tensions between the church and monarch: (3)
- Appointment of senior churchmen
- Church’s rights over sanctuary and benefit of the clergy
- Ability of the papacy to intervene in English church affairs
Why did Henry VII need the support of the church?
Equated to support from God for his victory at the Battle of Bosworth
When had Henry VII upheld the traditional privileges of the church? (2)
- Prepared to override sanctuary laws in order to arrest Humphrey who plotted against him in 1486
- In 1489 and 1491, Henry passed laws tightening controls over who could claim benefit of clergy (but this seems to have been part of an attempt to ensure that those claiming this privilege were genuinely members of the clergy)
An example of harmony between Church and state:
Henry VIII was able to ensure that the pope appointed Henry’s own candidate, John Morton, to the top position in the English Church, Archbishop of Canterbury
Anticlericalism in parliament: (2)
- In 1512, there was another Act to limit benefit of the clergy
- in 1515, the Hunne affair, a rich London merchant accused of heresy had been found dead while in the Bishop of London’s prison