Religion under Edward Flashcards
When was the Book of Homilies?
July 1547
What was the Book of Homilies legislation?
Every parish ahd to have a copy of Cramner’s Book of Protestant sermons for daily worship. Clergy conduct English services, have English bible
When was the Repeal of the Act of Six Articles?
1547
What was the impact of the repeal of the Act of Six Articles?
Effectively left the church without an official doctrine
When was the Repeal of the Treason Act?
1547
What did the Repeal of the Treason Act 1547 do?
Removed the old heresy, treason and proclamation laws. Allows people to discuss religion freely without fear of arrest/imprisonment
When were the Royal Injunctions?
July 1547
What did the Royal Injunctions of 1547 do?
All clergy had do to the service in English.Had to create a library of Protestant literature. Remove all superstitious images/statues from Churches.
Henrician treason, censorship and herersy laws not enforced
What were the impacts/reactions of the Royal Injunctions law?
- Catholics wanted changes reversed
- Protestants throught change was not happening fast enough
- Religious confusion due to lack of persecution
When was the Dissolution of the Chantries?
November 1547
Dissolution of the Chantries 1547
- Shut due to superstition
- Ended 2374 chantries and seized their assets
- Enquiries to determine all possessions
- Raise money for war with France
When was the First Prayer Book?
December 1548
What was the first prayer book?
A manual by Cramner outlining the liturgy to be followed. English services, cerical marriage allowed, no prayers for dead and ✅ transubstantiation
When was the First Act of Uniformity?
1549
What did the First Act of Uniformity 1549 do?
Made Book of Common Prayer official liturgy + enforced.
Who was John Hooper?
Extreme reformer
Opposed vestments
Jailed Oct 1550
Bishop of Gloucester
What are some Catholic aspects of the First Act of Uniformity 1549?
- Fast + holy days
- Traditional robe and vestments
-Transubstantiation
When was the New Treason Act?
January 1552
What did the New Treason Act of 1552 do?
Offence to ? Royal supremacy or any faith articles in church
When was the Second Book of Common Prayer?
January 1553
What was the Second Book of Common Prayer 1552?
Removed all traces of Catholicism, Mass removed, consubstantiation, Knox and Hooper still disapproved
When was the 42 Articles submitted?
1552
What did the 42 Articles intend to do?
Justification by faith alone, confirm Protestantism throughout evenry facet of Church doctine
(P sacraments, clerical marriage, ban on singing mass for dead souls)
Catholic discontent expressed in the…
Western Rebellion
What were the Iconaclastic riots?
When radicals in London, Lincolnshire, and East Anglia were unhappy wiht the rate of change so they destroyed stanied glass windows, statues, images.
Gold and silver candles sometimes given to poor
Why can this be refuted as unrepresentative?
Wills were written by one person for a whole area and may represent their views rather than the whole community
When was the Western Rebellion?
1548-49
Where and when was William Body killed?
Helston 1548, overseeing destruction of images
Why were people provoked into rebellion in Devon?
Due to the priest’s use of the English Prayer Book on Whitsunday 1549, then gather at Bodmin AoU
What happened on the 20th June?
Rebels persuade preist to deliver traditional mass, move and join forces at Crediton
Who hijacked the rebellion?
Edward Courtenay and Henry Arundell
(Sons of declining Catholic families)
Drew up demands
