Puritans

Question 1

Prophesying’s

Answer 1

1570s

Encouraged radicalism; threat to State

Question 2

Grindal confined

Answer 2

1576

For failing to suppress – even encouraged

Question 3

Classical Presbyterianism

Answer 3

Met in secret aiming to reorganise Church to Geneva model

Geoffrey Elton: largest threat

Question 4

300-400 ministers removed (for prophesying’s)

Answer 4

1583

Role of Whitgift

Question 5

Illegal pamphlets, printing presses

Answer 5

1580s

Elitist? 5% literate

Question 6

“Treatise of Reformation without tarrying for any”

Answer 6

Robert Browne

Eventually submits to Whitgift

Question 7

Copping and Thacker ex.

Answer 7

1583

Distribution of Browne’s work

Question 8

Barrow and Greenwood ex.

Answer 8

1593

Leaders of separatists

Question 9

Martin Marprelate tracts

Answer 9

1588-9

Question 10

Real, genuine threat

Answer 10

J.R. Green

Question 11

Classical Presbyterianism real threat

Answer 11

Geoffrey Elton

Question 12

Threat fabricated/ exaggerated by EI

Answer 12

Johnson

Death penalty – clearly seen as massive threat

Question 13

Too divided to reach aim

Answer 13

P. Lake

Question 14

Exaggerated threat

Answer 14

John Guy

Question 15

Strickland Bill

Answer 15

1571

Reform of the Book of Common Prayer

Removed from Commons

Question 16

Field’s Admonition to Parliament

Answer 16

1572

NEALE: orchestrated campaign to purify the Church

Revisionist: Anti-Catholic pressure from Council which feared for EI safety following Ridolfi Plot

Question 17

Turner

Answer 17

1584

Suggested changes to Prayer Book and a Calvinist style church government

Parliament itself refused to hear Turner’s bill

Jailed

Question 18

Cope’s Bill and Book

Answer 18

1586: assassination of William of Orange, Babington Plot7

Campaign to replace the Anglican prayer book and organisation with Calvinist ones

NEALE: well-organised group hijacked session

GRAVES: led by mere handful of men who “lacked general parliamentary sympathy or support, and were easily smothered by government action”