Marian Religion

Question 1

What does SCARISBRICK say about the Reformation

Answer 1

“on the whole, English people did not want the Reformation, and were slow to accept it when it came”

Question 2

How many Parliaments were there throughout her reign

Answer 2

5

Question 3

What are the 7 key features of Mary’s policies

Answer 3

• 2 Archbishops deprived
• Protestant printing press closed
• Foreign Protestants ordered to leave the realm
• Act of Repeal 1553 (Repealed all of Ed. religious changes)
• 1554 Cardinal Pole arrived as Papal legate
• 1555 Heresy Laws & burnings began

Question 4

What were Pole’s 3 key aims

Answer 4

1) Rebuild church finances (Audited finances, completed 1557)
2) Reconciliation to Rome (passed through Parliament with little opposition)
3) Rebuild Ecclesiastical Discipline and Education (London Synod 1555, and 2 Colleges founded at Oxford)

Question 5

Why did Pole fail

Answer 5

• Pope Julius III died 1555, Pope Paul IV became Pope
• Anti Spanish, regarded Phillip II & Pole as heretics
• Pole named heretic in 1557
• TITTLER- Took England to be as he had remembered it rather than it was

Question 6

What does HAIGH say about Protestantism during Mary I reign

Answer 6

Though diminished remained substantial

Question 7

How many heretics were burned according to JOHN FOXE’s ‘Book of Martyrs’

Answer 7

• c280

- TITTLER- ‘confirmed the faithful that they were God’s chosen