Pages 9-16 Mrs Myers Notes

Question 1

What did Henry intend?

Answer 1

Parliament would declare his marriage to Cath invalid

He would manipulate the succession by law

Question 2

What did the laws passed in 1529 do?

Answer 2

Reformed mortuary dues and probate fees, clerical pluralism and non-residency

Question 3

What did Henry charge the clergy with in Jan 1531?

Answer 3

Breaking the law of Praemunire as Wolseys accomplices in implementing papal policy w/o the Kings approval
BUT he pardoned them

Question 4

In Feb 1531, what were the clergy asked to accept Henry as?

Answer 4

‘Sole protector and supreme head of the English church and clergy’
Convocation would only accept this if ‘as far as Christ’s law allows’ was added onto the end

Question 5

When was Thomas Cromwell admitted to the council?

Answer 5

1531

Question 6

When was Cromwell placed in the inner ring and the Kings leading advisor?

Answer 6

1532

Question 7

What did the Commons Supplication against the Ordinaries do?

Answer 7

Cromwell revived it knowing Commons would support it

Petition attacking abuses of the clergy

Question 8

Why did Henry threaten to charge the bishops with treason?

Answer 8

When they were consecrated they took an oath of loyalty to the pope as well as to the king

Question 9

When did Henry win the submission of the clergy?

Answer 9

15th May 1532

Question 10

What did the submission of the clergy mean?

Answer 10

Convocation couldn’t assemble w/o the Kings permission

They couldn’t make church law w/o royal assessment

Question 11

Why did Sir Thomas More resign as Chancellor?

Answer 11

He couldn’t accept the King as the spiritual head of the Church in England
He believed this went against gods law, the natural law, and was unacceptable

Question 12

When did Henry secure the support of Francis I & what did he do after?

Answer 12

Summer 1532

Slept with Anne

Question 13

Why was Cranmer appointed Archbishop of Canterbury?

Answer 13

To grant the divorce

Question 14

When did Anne fall pregnant?

Answer 14

December 1532

Question 15

Henry married Anne without ‘what’ on the 25th January 1533?

Answer 15

Papal dispensation

Question 16

Who was the main opposition to the Act in Restraint of Appeals?

Answer 16

Thomas More

Question 17

When did Cranmer by law annul Henry’s marriage to Catherine?

Answer 17

May 1533

Question 18

Under what means did Cranmer annul Henry’s marriage to Catherine?

Answer 18

Original dispensation that had allowed Henry to marry Catherine was wrong (Leviticus)

Question 19

When did Anne give birth to Elizabeth & why was Henry disappointed?

Answer 19

7th September 1533

It was a baby girl

Question 20

Cromwell removed who and manipulated what to help the break with Rome?

Answer 20

Removed papal powers in England

Manipulated the succession by law

Question 21

What did the redefined natural law say?

Answer 21

It was accepted that the law should reflect the divine will

Now the Kings will was the law

Question 22

When did Henry appoint Cromwell as his vicegerent?

Answer 22

1535

Question 23

Before 1530 the Crown had control of the church through:

Answer 23

Chief ministers who were church leaders
Statutes of Praemunire and Provisors
Church taxed to fund the state

Question 24

The crown in 1534 had control of:

Answer 24

Canon law
Church courts
Supreme head of the church

Question 25

Crown now had right of visitation and access to wealth of church. This money would increase power of church significantly, but where did it come from?

Answer 25

Taxation of clergy, first fruits and tenths
Dissolution of the monasteries
Potential wealth from taking bishops land

Question 26

How did the royal supremacy increase the political power of the crown?

Answer 26

Increased its wealth

Removed potential challenges to its authority

Question 27

Why did Henry deliberately work through parliament to pressurise the pope to give the annulment?

Answer 27

Show he had people behind him in his attack on the church

King acting in parliament had supreme sovereign power to do as he liked