Puritanism Flashcards

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Define Puritan extremism:

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Radical views and actions against Elizabeth’s settlement of 1559, not accepting the settlement as final and complete.

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What and when was Jewel’s Apology?

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1562.

A book written on protestantism as being the true faith and how the Elizabethan settlement hadn’t gone far enough.

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Who were courtly protectors of puritanism?

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Leicester (Robert Dudley)
Huntingdon
Bedford

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What was the Vesterian controversy?

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Puritan Priests refused to wear vestments as they were too catholic and superstitious.
Elizabeth did offer a compromise for them to wear a surplice but they rejected.

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What was the Oath of Supremacy?

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An oath that was organised where all clergymen had to express whether they accepted or rejected the Elizabethan settlement. Many accepted as to avoid losing their posts.

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In what decade did the Puritan movement become more organised?

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1580s.

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What did Leicester do to help the puritan movement?

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He helped John Field secure a preaching licence after publishing the admonitions to parliament.

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The Presbyterian movement remained geographically concentrated to which regions at the end of the 1580s?

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London and Cambridge University (Where Thomas Cartwright formally taught).

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When was the Act of Seditious Sectaries?

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1593

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What were Prophesyings?

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Emerged as a group to suggest reforms to the Church. The group remained dominated by puritan extremism and led to a quarrel with Grindal.

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Which faction of puritans were greater in number?

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Mainstream.

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What do Mainstream Puritans believe?

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They challenge the Act of Uniformity,l and Elizabeth’s power and authority.

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What did Grindal say to Elizabeth about not interfering in religion?

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“Remember Madam, you are a mortal creature”

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14
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What year was Parker’s Advertisements?

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1566

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What was said in the 1583 Articles?

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Elizabeth chose Whitgift as her last Archbishop with the aim of crushing puritans and suppressing prophesyings.

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What did Presbyterians believe?

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They wished to remove bishops from the church and adopt a Calvinistic system.

17
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What and when was the Admonitions to Parliament?

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1572.

They were written by John Field and Thomas Wilcox and attacked Elizabeth’s settlement, and her Bishops.

18
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What was the Classis System?

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Organised by John Field to reform the church from within.

19
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How did Presbytarians attack the Church and the State?

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The next generation of clergy were influenced by Cartwright.
There were rude attacks that showed no respect fro Elizabeth’s Church.
Embarrassing pamphlet warfare.
Harsh attacks on Bishops were very extreme.