Religion

Question 1

What does what does excommunicated mean?

Answer 1

To exclude someone from the Church

Question 2

When did the Pope excommunicate the Queen?

Answer 2

1570

Question 3

What were Elizabeth’s aims for religion in England?

Answer 3

Use religion to help secure peace and run the country

Heal divisions between Catholics and Protestants - avoiding a civil war

To grow her personal power by ensuring control over the church

Question 4

What problems did Elizabeth face in regards to religion?

Answer 4

It was constantly changing meaning loss of allies and rebellions in the country

Question 5

When was the Act of Supremacy?

Answer 5

1559

Question 6

What were the aims of the Act of Supremacy?

Answer 6

To re-establish the break from Rome; making and independent Church of England

Clergy had to swear an oath of loyalty to the Queen

Question 7

How did the Act of Supremacy appease to Catholics?

Answer 7

Queen Elizabeth chose the title of Supreme Governor rather than Supreme Head - pacify Catholics as they still saw the Pope as head of the Church

Kept the hierarchy of the Church

Question 8

when was the Act of Uniformity?

Answer 8

1559

Question 9

What were the aims of the Act of Uniformity?

Answer 9

To end quarrels between Catholics and Protestants

Create rules for the Anglican church

Question 10

How did the Act of Uniformity appease protestants?

Answer 10

A new book of common prayer was issued, it was moderately worded but contained radical protestant ideas

Catholic mass was banned

Bibles services were performed in English

Clergy were allowed to marry

Ended Catholic pilgrimages and saint images

Question 11

How did the Act of Uniformity appease catholics?

Answer 11

The altar was replaced by a communion table

Ornaments such as crosses and condors were permitted

Priests wore traditional, decorative Catholic robes

Question 12

What were Jesuits?

Answer 12

Catholic priests who were opposed to the Reformation so we’re committed to spread Catholic ideas

Question 13

What was recusancy?

Answer 13

The state of those who refused to attend Anglican churches

Question 14

Who was Edmund Campion?

Answer 14

The head of the Catholic church

Question 15

When was attendence to the Anglican church made compulsory?

Answer 15

In the 1560s

Question 16

In what ways did Elizabeth I deal with the threat of Catholicism?

Answer 16

Made Anglican church attendance obligatory

Public Offices (eg: judges) were taken away from people if they did not accept the head of the Church as the Queen

The Treason Act, 1571

Recusancy - fined people £20 for not going to Church

Being a Catholic priest was illegal and punishable by death

Gatherings of Catholics was illegal

Question 17

By 1603, how much of the population was Catholic?

Answer 17

10%

Question 18

What was the Treason Act of 1571?

Answer 18

Stated that denying Elizabeth’s supremacy and bringing the Pope’s Bull of Excommunication was treason
And anyone who left England for longer than 6 months would lose their land

Question 19

What were priest holes?

Answer 19

Secret rooms where priests could hide and conduct mass

Question 20

What is prophesying?

Answer 20

prayer meetings where the Bible was discussed and debated

Question 21

What was a Brownish/ Separatist?

Answer 21

Named after Robert Browne - they were puritan who had seperate from the CofE and set up their own churches

Question 22

What was the cause of the Reformation that created the Church of Scotland?

Answer 22

Radical Protestant ideas of John Calvin

Question 23

When was the Act against Jesuits and Seminary Priests?

Answer 23

1585

Question 24

what did the Act against Jesuits and Seminary Priests state?

Answer 24

That to become a Catholic priest was illegal

all Catholic priests had to leave England withing 40 days or be executed

Question 25

what was Elizabeth’s response to prophesying and the production of pamphlets claiming that the structure of the CofE was wrong?

Answer 25

Destroyed puritan presses and banned the discussion of religious matters in parliament

Question 26

Who was Thomas Cartwright?

Answer 26

A theologian who delieverd lectures talking about abolishing bishops

Question 27

How many Catholic priests did Elizabeth execute?

Answer 27

200

Question 28

define heresy

Answer 28

Going against the official religion of the state