Lizzy Flashcards
When was Lizzy’s act of supremacy?
What aspects made it protestant?
How was obedience ensured?
1559
Lizzy restored to ‘governor of the church’
Papal supremacy and Mary’s heresy laws were rejected.
Oath to be taken by clergymen and officials/
Royal visitors could visit churches and ensure the following of religion.
When was Lizzy’s act of uniformity?
Which prayer book did it adopt as the single prayer book to be used?
What 2 adaptations did it make?
To what date are ornaments dated back to?
1559
Edward’s 1552 book.
Black rubric omitted.
Variations of the Eucharist were tolerated.
1549- before Edward’s more protestant reforms.
When were Lizzy's royal injunctions? How were these injunctions protestant? -Catholic practises -Eucharist -Bible
1559
- ‘Suppression of superstition.’
- Eucharist was to be administered at a simple communion table rather than at an altar.
- Parish churches required to purchase an English Bible, reasserting the 1558 injunctions.
When were the 39 articles of religion published?
1563
How many of the clergy is estimated to have lost their posts following Elizabeth’s religious settlement?
What evidence shows that parishes were disobedient to Lizzy’s reforms?
How many senior clergy in York endorsed the new changes?
Around 1/4.
Many parishes were slow to take down images and altars, and others hid them away.
23%
How can it be argued that protestants took their revenge following Elizabeth’s religious settlement?
At Exeter, Catholics were made to throw images of saints into fires.
At Bures in Suffolk, parishioners hacked down the rood-screen.
Where was refusal to take the oath of supremacy most common?
Cathedral chapters and at the university colleges.
When was the Ridolfi plot?
What’s the detail of the plot?
Significance?
1571
Conspiracy for Mary to marry the Duke of Norfolk and overthrow Elizabeth.
Allowed Burghley to ensure the execution of Norfolk for treason.
When was the Throckmorton plot?
What’s the detail of the plot?
What were the 3 outcomes?
1583
Foreign landing in Sussex followed by the overthrow of Lizzy, to be replaced by Mary. Foiled by Walsingham’s spy network.
- Bond of association.
- Worsened ango-spanish relations.
- Tightened conditions of Mary’s captivity.
When was the Parry Plot?
Detail?
Significance?
1585
Plot to assassinate Lizzy.
Led to the acceleration of parliamentary proceedings on a bill to ensure the Queen’s safety.
When was the Babington Plot?
Detail?
Significance?
1586.
Mary complicit in plot to assassinate Lizzy. Exposed by Walsingham’s code breaker.
Mary’s execution.
What was founded in 1568 that began the catholic missions?
How many priests had landed by 1575?
1580?
Between 1580-85?
A college in Douai to train catholic priests and send them to England.
By 1575: 11 of these priests had arrived.
By 1780: 100 priests had arrived.
Between 1580 and 85: A further 179 priests arrived.
How were the missionaries limited in their success?
- Classes
- Geography
- Argument
Gentry were able to maintain faith, but poorer more humble Catholics were often ignored. Priests became household chaplains to the wealthy.
They remained mainly in the South-East of England, whereas the catholic stronghold was in the North.
Missionaries became split after a bitter dispute about leadership of missions.
How is Philip a catholic threat from abroad in the 1560s?
How is Philip a general annoyance during the 70s and 80s?
What happens in 1580 that increases Philip’s power?
What event happens in 1584 and what does it spark?
He is intent on re Catholicising Netherlands.
He encourages and supports Lizzy’s excommunication as well as plots to assassinate her.
Portugal is annexed to Spain. They are often an ally of England.
Treaty of Joinville and the International Catholic Conspiracy.
When was Puritanism at its peak?
1560s and 1570s.
When was the Vestment controversy?
What did Parker publish to support lizzy?
What was the backlash to this?
1566
Advertisements, ordering clergymen to conform.
37 clergymen in London refused to comply and were deprived of their posts.
What did Presbyterians want?
What did the first admonition by John Field call for?
What did the second do?
A Calvinist church.
It called for abolition of bishops and attacked the Book of Common prayer.
Provided a detailed description of a Presbyterian system of church government.
Who argued for what during the Pamphlet war?
Cartwright believed the church was spiritually flawed, and that the settlement had to be modified.
Whitgift argued that Presbyterian beliefs were destructive and would split the church.
Where was the Presbyterian movement geographically limited to?
When did the movement grow?
How did the Presbyterian movement gain more influence?
London, Essex, Cambridge Uni, Suffolk and some of the East Midlands.
In the 1580s
It attracted supporters such as Leicester and Burghley.
Who attempted to bring Presbyterian change through parliament?
What changes did they hope to make?
How can it be seen that support for the movement was limited in parliament?
Peter Turner in 1584.
Anthony Cope in 1587.
Both of them introduced bills, which hoped to replace the book of common prayer and stripped any remaining popish elements.
Neither bill gained particular support.
What were Whitgift’s articles?
When were they published?
What did the clergy have to do regarding the articles?
An attempt to destroy Presbyterianism
1583
They had to subscribe to them.
What did the articles state?
- governance
- Practise and belief
- 1563 act
- They had to accept Lizzy as supreme head of the church
- They had to accept the prayer book as ‘ nothing contrary to the word of God.’
- Acceptance that the 39 articles conformed to the word of God.
Why did the second of Whitgift’s articles provoke a problem?
What was the result of this?
It created a crisis of conscience, not just for Presbyterians, who thought that some parts of the prayer book lack spiritual justification
Whitgift was forced to back down due to pressures from Leicester and Walsingham.
When did presbyterianism go into decline? What were some reasons for this? -clergy -parliament -death
In the late 80s.
The clergy were unwilling to break with the church of England over the three articles.
1587 failure of Cope’s ‘Bill and Book,’ showed that Presbyterianism had very little parliamentary support.
John Field died in 1589
How was Elizabethan separatism limited?
What was the government reaction to separatism?
Give an example of the result.
Small congregations in London, and one in Norwich that fell apart when Browne fled to Netherlands in 82.
They passed an act against seditious sectaries in 1593.
This Barrow, Greenwood and John Penry were tried and executed in 1593 for devising and circulating seditious books.
When did Leicester die?
When did Mildmay die?
When did Walsingham die?
What did this lead to?
What other factor led to the lessening of Puritanism?
1588
1589
1590
Lessening influence of puritanism
Beating the Spanish Armada lessened the threat of the International Catholic Conspiracy.
How can it be said Lizzy wasn’t too fussed about Catholics not attending church?
Recusants were rarely demanded.
In what two ways did Lizzy crack down on Catholicism?
- Images
- mystery plays
A lot of energy was put into rooting out catholic images that had been hidden away.
‘mystery plays’ were abolished due to their link to the festival of Corpus Christi, and therefore also to transubstantiation.
How many catholic bishops refused to take the oath of supremacy in 1559?
What did some catholic priests do instead of going into exile in the Spanish Netherlands?
All but one
They became private house chaplains to the wealthy.
What did the catholic undertones of the Northern rebellion provoke?
What happened in 1570?
A punitive attitude towards Catholics.
The pope excommunicated Lizzy in 1570, and wanted Catholics to dispose her. This put Catholics in a tricky predicament.
When was the first penal law against Catholics?
What did it state?
1571
publication of papal bulls was made treasonable
