Religion

Question 1

First Acts of Annates

Answer 1

1532
Banned the payment of annates to Rome. Threatened that bishops could be consecrated by English authorities. Chief source of papal revenue in England was removed.

Question 2

Submission of the clergy 1532

Answer 2

Clergy accepted the king and not the Pope as their lawmaker.

Question 3

In 1532 who resigned following the submission of clergy

Answer 3

Thomas More

Question 4

Act in Restraint of Appeals to Rome

Answer 4

1533
Work of transferring papal powers to the King:
King now supreme head of the Church of England
Cromwell declared Henry’s marriage with Catherine void

Question 5

Second Acts of Annates

Answer 5

1534
Confirmed the 1st act of Annates
Abbots and bishops appointed by the king not pope

Question 6

Act for submission of clergy 1534

Answer 6

Appeals in ecclesiastical matters had to be handled by the Kings court of Chancery

Question 7

Act of succession

Answer 7

1534
Registered marriage to Catherine as invalid
Crown was now to pass to Henry and Anne’s children
Nation had to take an oath upholding their marriage, treasonable offence to deny marriage

Question 8

Act of supremacy

Answer 8

1534
Oath of supremacy that Henry was Supreme head of the Church of England.
HVIII was given the right to carry out visitations of the monasteries.

Question 9

Treason Act 1534

Answer 9

Listed treasonable crimes e.g. calling the King a heretic- it could now be defined as intent expressed in words.

Question 10

Acts for First Fruits and Tenths

Answer 10

1534
Clerical taxes were now to go to the King not the Pope

Question 11

When was Cromwell made vice-gerent? What did it show?

Answer 11

1535
Evidence that there was a swing to reformist influence over Henry.

Question 12

Valor Ecclesiasticus

Answer 12

Cromwell commissioned this survey into the wealth and condition of the church

Question 13

When was the Dissolution of smaller monasteries

Answer 13

1536

Question 14

Act of dissolution of lesser monasteries

Answer 14

Smaller monasteries, those were under £200, were close down

Question 15

Ten articles

Answer 15

1536
Protestant
The “Seven sacraments” of catholic doctrine were rejected; leaving only baptism, Eucharist, penance.

Question 16

Royal injunctions 1536

Answer 16

Ordered clergy to:
Defend royal supremacy in sermons
Abandon pilgrimages
Give money for education to teach Lord’s prayer, 10 Commandments and other Scriptures

Question 17

Bishops book

Answer 17

1537
Restored the four sacraments omitted from the 10 articles, but given lower status.
No transubstantiation
Status of priests lowered
Mass was glossed over
Purgatory was present only by implication

Question 18

Royal Injunctions 1538

Answer 18

• every parish had to have an English bible
• births/deaths/marriages registered in every parish.
• actively discouraged from pilgrimages
• relics were to be removed from churches

Question 19

When was HVIII excommunicated by the Pope?

Answer 19

1538

Question 20

date of the publication of the ‘great bible’

Answer 20

1539

Question 21

Six Articles

Answer 21

1539
marked a radical shift in doctrine. Severe penalties if resisted.
confirmed:
- transubstantiation
- private mass
- hearing of confession by priests.
banned:
- marriage by priests
- adultery
- taking communion of bread + wine by lay people.

Question 22

Act of the Dissolution of the Greater monasteries

Answer 22

1539
All monasteries were closed + their land passed to the Crown.

Question 23

date of the dissolution of the Greater monasteries

Answer 23

all monasteries were closed and their land passed to the Crown.

Question 24

year of Cromwell’s execution

Answer 24

1540

Question 25

What did HVIII protect Cranmer against in 1543?

Answer 25

catholic faction

Question 26

Kings Book 1543

Answer 26

revised the Bishop’s Book- defending transubstantiation and Six Articles.
Encouraged preaching + attacked the use of images.
Written by Henry VIII

Question 27

Chantries Act

Answer 27

1545 allowed for the dissolution of chantries

Question 28

What did the Council of Regency ensure for HVIII heir?

Answer 28

Protestant-influenced inheritance for Edward.