Mary Key Religious Reforms

Question 1

Mary initial religious problems

Answer 1

• Protestantism, although minority faith, had attracted adherents in london and in other party’s of the south
• reformed Protestant Church of England was protected in statute law
• many members of the political elites, on whose support Mary depended, had benefited financially from the acquisition of monastic land and had no desire to surrender what Mary saw as their ill-gotten gains

Question 2

1553

Answer 2

First statute of repeal
- repealed the religious legislation of Edward’s VI reign

Order of service at the time of the death of HVIII was restored

All clergy who had married when permitted to do so could be deprived of their livings

Legal status of the CofE was upheld

Question 3

Nov 1554

Answer 3

Mary’s third parliament assembled
- heresy laws restored
- return of cardinal pole to england

Question 4

1555

Answer 4

Second statute of repeal
- repealed anti-papal legislation from henry VIII’s reign

Question 5

Feb 1555

Answer 5

First burnings for heresy

Question 6

21 march 1556

Answer 6

Burning of archbishop cranmer

Question 7

Catholic reformation

Answer 7

Bishops were to reside in their dioceses
Bishops to preach and oversee carefully the religious life of their parishes

There was a proposal but never put in effect, that each cathedral should have a seminary attached for the training of new recruits to the priesthood.

Question 8

Extent to which Mary had transformed the religious situation by 1558

Answer 8

Bulk of country remained catholic in sentiment
If had more time Pole and Mary could have re-catholocised england
Delay in restoring church’s institutional structure and divisions of crown and papacy did not help

Mary never completed what she set out to do