Protestant and Catholic Failure 1547-1553

Question 1

Who was in firm control after the accession of boy-king Edward VI?

Answer 1

evangelical sympathises

Question 2

What are the 3 names for the Duke of Somerset?

Answer 2

• Duke of Somerset
• Edward Seymour
• Earl of Hertford

Question 3

What are the 3 names for the Duke of Northumberland?

Answer 3

• John Dudley

- Earl of Warwick

Question 4

What type of policy did Duke of Northumberland pursue after having outmanoeuvred the conservatives under Somserset?

Answer 4

an evangelical policy

Question 5

What year was the Chantries Act?

Answer 5

1547

Question 6

What did the Chantries Act 1547 allow the crown to do?

Answer 6

to seize chantries and colleges of protests to appropriate their revenues

Question 7

What happened to regular confessions of sin?

Answer 7

they were made optional rather than compulsory

Question 8

Royal orders were sent out, what did they order?(3)

Answer 8

• destruction of all images in Church
• hacking down statues
• whitewashing over painted walls

Question 9

What did Parliament abolish under Duke of Northumberland?

Answer 9

they abolished all parliamentary legislation against heretical opinions

Question 10

Cramner led a team to produce what?

Answer 10

12 sets of sermons or homilies

Question 11

Under who did their government order Cramner who led a team to produce 12 sets of sermon or homilies, to be explained throughout the realm for the people to understand the central themes of the evangelical view of salvation and other guidelines for Christian life?

Answer 11

Somerset

Question 12

Why was Protestantism in central Europe thrown into disarray in 1548?

Answer 12

due to the victorious HRE Charles V who imposed the Interim of Augsburg; an attempt by the Catholic Emperor to compromise between his warring Catholic and Protestant subjects. However this was extremely limited in concessions to the Protestants

Question 13

who had Charles V defeated before the Interim of Augsburg?

Answer 13

the Schmalkaldic League

Question 14

While the Interim of Augsburg was extremely imitated in its concessions to the Protestants; what was a benefit ?

Answer 14

It is considered the first significant step in the process leading to the political and religious legitimization of Protestantism

Question 15

How did Protestants on the continent react to the imposed Interim of Augsburg under Charles V?

Answer 15

They took refuge in England

Question 16

What was a bittersweet consequence of the flood of Protestants from the imposed Interim of Augsburg?

Answer 16

this provided Cramner with both welcome advice and unwelcome criticism of his programme

Question 17

Where was the large scale rebellion located in 1549 against the Prayer Book?

Answer 17

Devon and Cornwall

Question 18

Who was highly suspicious of Somerset’s religious policy?

Answer 18

Charles V

Question 19

What had infuriated English evangelicals who had returned from continental exile on Edward VI’s accession?

Answer 19

Cramner’s appreciation of the need for caution meant that the sweeping changes from 1547-1549 were not enough for many reformers

Question 20

Although there was no mass persecution of Catholics, when were there executions?

Answer 20

following the Western Rebellion 1549

Question 21

Why could the year of 1550 have been a good one for Northumberland? (3)

Answer 21

as he had defeated Somerset, ended the war with France which meant he was also less diplomatically dependant on Charles V

Question 22

Who refused to be consecrated in the traditional vestments, regarding them as symbols of the concessions of popery; but who soon conceded with the threat of prison

Answer 22

Hooper

Question 23

Who is an example of an exiled reformer who Cramner worked with?

Answer 23

Martin Brucer

Question 24

In what year were alters were ordered to be demolished and replaced by wooden tables?

Answer 24

1550

Question 25

in 1550 what was ordered in the churches?

Answer 25

alters were ordered to be demolished and replaced by wooden tables

Question 26

What did Cramner publish in 1550?

Answer 26

a new Ordinal, which owed much to religious exile Bucer’s work

Question 27

What was the new Ordinal which was published by Cramner in 1550 and owed much of the work to Bucer?

Answer 27

a rite for the ordinations of priests and deacons and for the consecration of bishops

Question 28

What was the ultimate expression for Cramner’s theological outlook?

Answer 28

the Prayer Book 1552

Question 29

Besides liturgy, what did Cramner go on to reform?

Answer 29

doctrine and church discipline

Question 30

in what year were the doctrines of the church summarised in 42 articles?

Answer 30

1553

Question 31

While the 42 Articles which summarised the doctrines of the church were officially published in 1553, what were they not?

Answer 31

they were never approved by the Church’s two Provincial Convocations

Question 32

What did the Church’s two Provincial Convocations never approve of?

Answer 32

the 42 Articles which summarised the doctrine of the Church

Question 33

What was created to draft reform of the church?

Answer 33

a legal committee

Question 34

What year was there commissions to sever Church goods?

Answer 34

1553