Mid Tudor Religion

Question 1

When was the Book of Homilies introduced?

Answer 1

1547.

Question 2

How many sacraments did the First Book of Common Prayer allow?

Answer 2

Five (was seven).
Also allowed Communion in both kinds.

Question 3

What was a Chantry?

Answer 3

A building for prayers for the dead.

Question 4

What did the Second Book of Common Prayer introduce?

Answer 4

A fully Protestant English Church.

Question 5

What were the Forty-Two Articles?

Answer 5

Articles specifying a clear Protestant faith. Not enacted because Edward died.

Question 6

How was Edward successful in introducing Protestantism?

Answer 6

• Passed legislation.
• Abolished chantries.

Question 7

How was Edward not successful in introducing Protestantism?

Answer 7

• Western Rising.
• Short reign
• Counter-Reformation under Mary had some success.
• Limited impact outside the South East.

Question 8

When was the First Book of Common Prayer and First Act of Uniformity passed?

Answer 8

1548/9.

Question 9

When was the Second Book of Common Prayer and Second Act of Uniformity passed?

Answer 9

1552.

Question 10

What is heresy?

Answer 10

Speaking out against the official church.

Question 11

When was the Heresy Act passed?

Answer 11

1554. It made it illegal to challenge Mary’s changes to the Church.

Question 12

Who was the first person that Mary
burnt?

Answer 12

Rogers (1555).

Question 13

How many people did Mary burn?

Answer 13

300 (including 51 women)

Question 14

Who were the Marian Exiles?

Answer 14

Protestants who fled England for the Continent during Mary’s reign.

Question 15

Name two individuals who Mary burnt.

Answer 15

Bishop Hooper (1555).
Latimer and Ridley (October 1555).
Cranmer (1556).

Question 16

What is “Acts and Monuments” often known as?

Answer 16

Foxe’s Book of Martyrs.

Question 17

How reliable is Foxe’s Book of Martyrs?

Answer 17

• Extremely influential
• Eyewitness testimony
• Foxe was out of the country during the burnings.
• Much evidence came from family and friends of those burnt.

Question 18

How successful was Mary’s policy of burning?

Answer 18

• Foxe’s Book of Martyrs.
• Some of Mary’s advisers like Gardiner were critical of the policy.
• Cherry-Sellers attended some burnings in Kent due to the size of the crowds.
• Most of the burnings took place in the South-East which tended to be more Protestant.
• People were often denounced by family and friends.

Question 19

When was the First Act of Repeal?

Answer 19

1553 - it restored the English Catholic Church.

Question 20

When was the Second Act of Repeal?

Answer 20

1554 - it restored the Roman Catholic Church.

Question 21

What changes did the Royal Injunctions (1554) introduce?

Answer 21

Restored some Catholic Holy Days and ceremonies.
Clergy had to be re-ordained.

Question 22

Who was Mary’s Archbishop of Canterbury

Answer 22

Cardinal de la Pole.

Question 23

What did the Royal Injunctions of 1547 state?

Answer 23

• Preach and Bible in English.
• Images removed.

Question 24

What did Edward’s Visitations show?

Answer 24

Level of education was poor amongst the clergy.

Question 25

What do Church Wardens records, especially from the South East, show?

Answer 25

Widespread acceptance of Edward’s changes e.g. through the whitewahing of Church walls.

Question 26

What did the Black Rubric state?

Answer 26

Kneeling was for order and not for idolatry.

Question 27

What were the Twelve Decrees?

Answer 27

Improve clerical discipline over absenteeism, pluralism simony and heresy.

Question 28

How was Mary successful in introducing her Counter-Reformation?

Answer 28

• Large majority of people were Catholic (80%).
• Church wardens accounts show that outside of the South East many welcomed the changes.
• Mary was prepared to reform the Church through the Twelve Decrees.

Question 29

How was Mary unsuccessful in introducing the Counter-Reformation?

Answer 29

• Short reign.
• No heir.
• Limited propaganda.
• Impact of the burnings.

Question 30

Who advised Mary to limit the burnings?

Answer 30

Gardiner and Philip.