Religion, Ideas And Reform Flashcards
Most significant consequence religious reform (2+)
Henry could finance wars
1547 = 800,000 from sales = spares country harsher taxation
Dissolution of monasteries (4)
Overall:
563 houses dissolved
8000 monks pensioned off
Crown income doubled 120,000 - 250,000
Resale value of monastic land = 1.3million
Acts to dissolve monasteries + dates (3)
1536 - first act
1537 - voluntary surrenders of larger houses (clear that big + small attacked)
1538 - dissolution of remaining large houses = within 16m 202 houses surrendered
Example of dissolution
March 1540 = surrender of Waltham abbey
Changes to supremacy (4+)
Feb 1533 = act in restraint of appeals
Jan 1534 = annates paid to Henry through first fruits and tenths
Nov 1534 = act of supremacy = supreme head of CoE
Dec 1534 = treason act
Changes within church organisation (2)
Act of supremacy = Henry was now head
Cromwell made vicegerent in spirituals = more authority than bishops/arch
Little change to church org (2)
Retained structure of hierarchy - archbishops, bishops, priests
Parish still ran daily life
The beliefs and teachings (DOCTRINE) = change (3)
July 1536 = act of ten articles = rejected seven sacraments
December 1545 = chantries act = rejection of purgatory
August 1537 = Matthew bible = Protestant version
Beliefs and teachings = little change (3)
Nov 1538 = John lambert = executed for denying T
July 1546 = Anne askew burned for denying T
1539 = Act of six articles
How was practices changed (3++)
1536-39 = dissolution of monasteries
August 1536 = royal injections = abandon pilgrimage + teach Lord’s Prayer
September 1538 = royal injections = relics removed, English bible in every parish
Essay plan 3 reason for little/extreme change in church (3)
Governance + structure = church org + supremacy
Doctrine = beliefs + teachings
Practices = how carried out
When clergy accused of praemunire
1531
