Key Events

Question 1

1530 - maintaining Catholicism

Answer 1

May = William Tyndales vernacular bible was burned

Question 2

1530 = Protestant reform

Answer 2

December = clergy as a whole was accused of praemunire

Question 3

1531 - maintaining Catholicism

Answer 3

Clergy pardoned of praemunire charge

Question 4

1531 - Protestant reform

Answer 4

February = convocation of Canterbury recognised Henry as head of church

Question 5

1532 - Protestant reform (3)

Answer 5

First act of Annates
March = Supplication of the Ordinances = clergy couldn’t enact any law without kings permission
May = submission of the clergy = accepted king and not pope as law maker

Question 6

1533 = Protestant reform

Answer 6

February = act in restraint of Appeals to Rome = began the work of transferring papal power to the king (he was supreme head)

Question 7

1534 = Protestant reform (5)

Answer 7

January = second act of Annates = confirmed the first act
Act to stop Peter’s pence = abolishment tax payed to Rome
November = act of supremacy (oath admixtures to all religious houses) + allowed him visitation of monasteries
December = treason act = what you said would land you in same amount of bother as what you did
December = act of first fruit and tenths = clerical taxes to go to king not pope

Question 8

1534 = maintains Catholicism

Answer 8

April = execution of Elizabeth Barton = evidence of Henry’s lack of tolerance to religious diversity

Question 9

1535 = Protestant reform (2)

Answer 9

January = Cromwell made vice green of spirituals = reformist influence
Valour Ecclesiasticus = Cromwell commissioned this survey into wealth and condition of church

Question 10

1536 - Protestant reform (2)

Answer 10

February = act of dissolution of lesser monasteries
July = Act of ten articles = seven sacraments were rejected
August = royal injections to the clergy issued by Cromwell = must defend royal supremacy and abandon pilgrimages

Question 11

What important event occurred in 1536 (2)

Answer 11

Anne Boleyn beheaded
Henry married Jane Seymour the following day

Question 12

1537 - maintaining Catholicism (2+)

Answer 12

The bishops’ book published = four lost sacraments were rediscovered though stated to be of lesser value
However no discussion of transubstantiation, mass was glossed over purgatory only present by implication

Question 13

1537 = Protestant reform

Answer 13

August = Thomas Matthew published the Matthew bible = Protestant version of bible + had kings permission

Question 14

1538 = Protestant reform (2)

Answer 14

September = royal injunction to clergy by Cromwell = English bible to be in all perished in 2 years etc
December = Henry excommunicated by pope Paul III

Question 15

1537 - maintaining Catholicism

Answer 15

November = trial and execution of John Lambert for denial of transubstantiation

Question 16

1539 = Protestant reform

Answer 16

April = publication of the great bible
June = act of dissolution of the greater monasteries

Question 17

1539 = maintaining Catholicism

Answer 17

June = act of six articles = confirmed private masses, transubstantiation and confessions heard by priests

Question 18

1543 = maintaining Catholicism (2+)

Answer 18

May = Act for the advancement of true religion = restricted access to the English bible to upper class and nobility
The necessary doctrine + erudition of a Christian man = defends transubstantiation + 6 articles = written by Henry

Question 19

1544 = Protestant reform (2)

Answer 19

May = English LITANY introduced into churches = removed Latin
July = Sir John Cheke appointed tutor to prince edward = rotestamt humanist

Question 20

1545 = Protestant reform

Answer 20

December = Chantries act passed (not enforced tho) = allowed for their dissolution

Question 21

1546 = maintaining Catholicism

Answer 21

July = Anne askew burned for denial of transubstantiation

Question 22

1546 = Protestant reform (1+)

Answer 22

July = Henry named heavily Protestant Council of Regency for his heir = ensured a Protestant- influence inheritance for prince Edward