Major religious changes

Question 1

Somerset

Answer 1

-Genuine Protestant, careful by nature
-Welcomed radicals into his household
-Established single form for services and translated into English
included Eucharist declaration (Gardiner thought could still mean acceptance of transubstantiation
-Reforms caused fear because of land and power being stripped away from the church
-Weren’t many reforms out of fear of angering Charles V

Question 2

Other changes

Answer 2

-Protestants welcomed into England
-Priests allowed to marry
-Tolerant attitude to publication of Protestant texts banned in Henry VIII’s reign
-No one executed purely based on religion
-Book of homilies by Cranmer (substitutes for sermons to encourage obedience to church and state)

Question 3

1547

Answer 3

-Denunciation of images in London (iconoclasm)
July:
-Issue of royal injunctions which were radical (instructions to clergy)
-Attacked features of Catholicism (processions and Ash Wednesday)
December:
-Dissolution of chantries
-Provided money for foreign policy
-Further attack on Catholicism

Question 4

1548

Answer 4

January:
-Act of Uniformity (book of common prayer publication)

Question 5

1549

Answer 5

May:
-Book of common prayer introduced
-Uniform approach

Question 6

1552

Answer 6

March:
-Second Act of Uniformity (publication of the second book of common prayer)
December:
-Revised book of common prayer introduced

Question 7

1553

Answer 7

June:
-Forty two Articles of religion published

Question 8

Northumberland

Answer 8

-Continued Protestant reforms
-Plundered more wealth
-Cranmer was becoming more radical which reflected in book of common prayer

Question 9

Book of common prayer

Answer 9

Removal of remaining ‘Conservative’ ceremonies
-Conservatives couldn’t find anything in book to accept
Rewriting of Baptism, Confirmation and burial services
-Easily understood, simplistic
Radical reform of communion service
-Zwinglianism influence, decisive
Ban of ‘Popish’ vestments
-Superstitious, simpler approach
Restriction on use of church music
-Idolatrous

Question 10

Other changes

Answer 10

-Radical senior clergy more infleuncial
-E.g. Nicholas Ridley, John Hooper
-Continental reformers moved to England
-Edward’s role in policy making was relfected, he believed it was his mission to destroy idolatry
-Many people stopped leaving money to the church because the crown confiscated it (parishes declining)