INCLASS-Religious Settlement

Question 1

What did the Queen have an undoubted mastery in?

Answer 1

in the arts of evasion and ambiguity

Question 2

Why was it only logical for Elizabeth to associate her own right to the throne with opposition to the papacy?

Answer 2

As the Church of Rome had denied the legality of the Anne Boleyn’s marriage, and thus her as heir to the throne.

Question 3

In terms of familial loyalty, why did Elizabeth’s religion lie with Protestantism?

Answer 3

as the Boleyn action was very interested in Luther’s views on church reform

Question 4

How were Elizabeth’s personal religious books found?

Answer 4

to be plain and unadorned

Question 5

When was Parker made archbishop?

Answer 5

1559

Question 6

When did Archbishop Parker revise Cramner’s 42 Articles of Religion and reduced it to 39, and when were they officially enacted in statute?

Answer 6

1563

1571

Question 7

What year did Archbishop Parker publish the Advertisements which regulated the dress of the clergy in accordance to Elizabeths orders?

Answer 7

1566

Question 8

What was a key characteristic of Elizabeth I?

Answer 8

to link royal authority so closely to that of God

Question 9

What did failures in Marian propaganda and policy enable the Protestants to link the burnings of martyrs with?

Answer 9

to Rome and the policy of submission to Rome with subservience to Spain

Question 10

What would it have meant for Elizabeth to implace a Genevan style reform in accordance to Calvinist ideology?

Answer 10

this would have resulted in a wholesale destruction of all aspects of Catholicism

Question 11

What was a risk of completely destroying all Catholic rituals in terms of society?

Answer 11

this would have caused discontent for communities who valued church rituals because they fitted into the cycle of the seasons and working year

Question 12

Why did Elizabeth have to consider a non-radical Protestant approach?

Answer 12

in order to keep the Marian bishops in the upper house amicable

Question 13

When did Elizabeth forbade the elevation of the Host at Mass?

Answer 13

Christmas Day in 1558

Question 14

In 1558 what did Elizabeth tell her Spanish Ambassador about her plans for the religious settlement?

Answer 14

That she intended to restore the form of religion as practiced in the conservative final years of Henry VIII’s reign; a form which many Catholics found acceptable

Question 15

When did Parliament assemble under Elizabeth for the first time?

Answer 15

January 1559

Question 16

Why were the Spanish interests very much bound up with her retaining the throne?

Answer 16

as if Mary Stuart were to become Queen this would unite the monarchies of France, England and Scotland against Spain

Question 17

Who was the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis between in February 1559?

Answer 17

France, Spain and England

Question 18

What was the Peace treaty called between France, Spain and England in Feb 1559?

Answer 18

Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis

Question 19

What was a problem with Elizabeth’s first attempt to pass the religious settlement through Parliament?

Answer 19

the House of Lords rejected the bills of Uniformity

Question 20

Why was Elizabeth able to create some upset at home in pressing for her religious settlement which was more congenial to herself and her Protestant supporters?

Answer 20

through the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis which reduced the threat of invasion

Question 21

How did Elizabeth respond when the Catholic representatives in the HOL withdrew in anger to the religious settlement proposals which had attacked the authority of the Pope and the spiritual value of Mass?

Answer 21

she took the opportunity to arrest two of the departing bishops on a charge of disobedience to her authority which reduced Catholic numbers in the Lords

Question 22

In the Act of Supremacy, what was Elizabeth’s title substituted to?

Answer 22

Supreme Govener

Question 23

Revision to the Act of Supremacy adapted Elizabeth’s title to Supreme Govener. This allowed her apologists such as who, the opportunity to accept that there was nothing to prevent a woman in scripture as acting as an overseer to the church?

Answer 23

John Aylmer, a Protestant exile during Mary’s reign

Question 24

while Elizabeth wanted to keep the bishops for reasons of hierarchy and structure, what did she expect from them?

Answer 24

obedience and not instruction

Question 25

What did the Act of Supremacy demand from the clergy and royal officials?

Answer 25

that they swear an oath to accept the Queen’s title

Question 26

What were the circumstances under which the Act of Uniformity, which had a hard time passing through Parliament, passed through?

Answer 26

It was only the inexplicable absence of the Abbot of Westminster and the entirely explicable absence of the two bishops languishing in the Tower which allowed the Act to pass through

Question 27

What did the Act of Uniformity require all churches to have?

Answer 27

a Book of common Prayer

Question 28

What was the 1559 Prayer Book based on?

Answer 28

the books of 1549 and 1552

Question 29

What was the Black Rubric form the 1552 Book of Common Prayer which Elizabeth committed from the 1559 Act of Uniformity?

Answer 29

this declared that kneeling at Communion must not be taken to imply that Christ was a Real Presence in the bread and wine

Question 30

How did the 1559 Book of Common Prayer incorporate both the 1549 and 1552 version?

Answer 30

it instructed the priest to say the words of both the 1549 and 1552 books when offering the bread and wine at Communion which was a straight compromise

Question 31

What insulting references from the 1552 book did ELIzabeth remove?

Answer 31

ones about the pope

Question 32

What were the 3 main points about the Act of Supremacy?

Answer 32

• Elizabeth adopted the title of Supreme Governor
• Oath imposed
• Marian heresy laws repealed

Question 33

What were the 5 main points about the Act of Uniformity?

Answer 33

• Imposed a Book of Common Prayer in English
• Compromise on the issue of Real Presence (Black Rubric committed)
• Obligation to attend church
• Ornaments rubric

Question 34

What is the thesis of Sir John Neale?

Answer 34

that the Queen had been forced by a well-organised and influential nucleus of Puritans within the Commons to move further in a Protestant direction than she had originally intended, arguing that this “Puritan Choir” increasingly used the Commons to force the Queen into further reform which they felt was too close to the Church of Rome and too far from the Church of Geneva

Question 35

Over recent years why has the Neale thesis been subjected to extensive and effective attack?

Answer 35

as the work of Norman Jones has demonstrated that there was no effective Puritan faction in the 1559 Parliament, with no more than 25 MPs out of 400 MPs in the Commons who could be considered Calvinist

Question 36

Under the Royal injunctions of 1559 what were the clergy to teach?

Answer 36

the Royal Supremacy

Question 37

What were to be destroyed under the 1559 injunctions?

Answer 37

monuments to fake miracles

Question 38

What were forbidden under the 1559Royal injunctions?

Answer 38

pilgrimages

Question 39

Who were recusants to be denounced to under the 1559 Royal Injunctions?

Answer 39

they were to be denounced to the Privy Council or to local justices of the peace

Question 40

How did the Royal Injunctions of 1559 place very clear restrictions on evangelising?

Answer 40

as no preaching was to take place without official permission, and restricted to those clergymen who held a master of the arts degree

Question 41

Who were the only men allowed to preach?

Answer 41

clergymen with a master of the arts degree

Question 42

Why was it problematic that to preach the clergymen had to have a master of the arts degree under the Royal Injunctions of 1559?

Answer 42

as even in the Univserity of Oxford, considerably less than half of clergymen held such a degree

Question 43

How did Elizabeth view unlicenced preaching which is why the Royal Injunctions of 1559 were implaced?

Answer 43

she saw them as disruptive of good religious and civil order as Protestant preachers swarming into traditionalist Catholic areas would almost inevitably cause discourse

Question 44

The people who attended open-air sermons were also people who might be swayed to criticism of her government. Why was this relevant to the injunctions of 1559?

Answer 44

as resultantly, she restricted preaching to those who held a licence and a masters of the arts degree

Question 45

What 2 things did the Royal Injunctions of 1559 require the Church of England to obtain?

Answer 45

a copy of the Bible in English and work by Erasmus, the Paraphrases of the Gospels

Question 46

What is the name of the work of Erasmus which was included in the royal injunctions of 1559 as a necessity for the Church of England to have?

Answer 46

Paraphrases of the Gospels

Question 47

Why was it significant that the Church of England had to all have the work of Erasmus, Paraphrases of the Gospels under the Royal Injunctions of 1559?

Answer 47

as this was another example of who Elizabeth aimed to minimise the distance being travelled from the traditional catholic ways, as Erasmus was no Protestant but did have interest in reform.

Question 48

under the Royal Injunctions of 1559 what were the clergy ordered to wear?

Answer 48

distinctive clerical dress from the garments specified in 1552

Question 49

It was a mark of Catholicism to demand celibacy as a sign of the special status of the priest. What did Elizabeth have on place to restrict clerical marriage?

Answer 49

To do so the clergy had to have special permission of their bishop and two Justices of the Peace