Religion under Edward

Question 1

Why was Somerset’s policies a balancing act?

Answer 1

Trying to appease radicals (Edward, Latiner and Ridley) and conservatives (Gardiner)

Question 2

What did Somerset reform to signal a regime that was more tolerant to new religious ideas?

Answer 2

Reformed the Heresy law/ Treason law and Act of 6 Articles

Question 3

What was introduced in 1549?

Answer 3

Book of Common Prayer

Question 4

Who was responsible for the Book of Common Prayer?

Answer 4

Cramner

Question 5

What did the Book of Common Prayer trigger?

Answer 5

the Western Rebellion

Question 6

What started to be dissolved in 1549?

Answer 6

Chantries

Question 7

What religious and church reforms were done in 1547?

Answer 7

Book of Homilies
Superstitious imagery removed
Chantries Act

Question 8

What is the Book of Homilies?

Answer 8

(Protestant sermons written by Cramner) started to be written in 1547 but took 2 years to go through.
Based on Lutheran belief

Question 9

How was religious issues and clergy investigated in 1547?

Answer 9

Royal Visitation

Question 10

What acts were repealed in 1547?

Answer 10

Act of Six Articles

Treason Act

Question 11

What changes to the church occurred in 1548?

Answer 11

All Catholic images removed

Question 12

Why were proclamations were called in Jan-March 1548?

Answer 12

Proclamations to dampen Protestant unrest - Privy Council assert transubstantiation

Question 13

What proclamations were in called April 1548?

Answer 13

Proclamations stating only authorised clergy to preach.

Question 14

What proclamations were called in September 1548?

Answer 14

proclamation for no preaching until new liturgy introduced

Question 15

When was the Act of Uniformity and Book of Common Prayer released?

Answer 15

January 1549

Question 16

What did the Prayer Book and Book of Common Prayer outline?

Answer 16

The Liturgy (how to perform a church service)

Question 17

What religious reform occurred in November 1549?

Answer 17

Removed laws against clerical marriage.

All ecclesiastical courts were in the Kings names

Question 18

What is the significance of the Chantries Act 1547?

Answer 18

Chantries were based on the belief that prayer helped souls in purgatory. Dismissal had a major impact. They played a vital role in communities so this affected parishes.

Question 19

How many Chantries were dissolved under the Chantries Act?

Answer 19

3,000

Question 20

Who were the leaders of the religious change?

Answer 20

Edward
Somerset 
Northumberland 
Cramner (theological change)
John Hooper (physical change)

Question 21

What was the first religious change Northumberland do in January 1550?

Answer 21

New ordinal (Ordinating priests). A given detailed ceremony to be followed when the clergy is ordained.

Question 22

What was the drama with Bishop Hooper in 1550?

Answer 22

Hooper was dissatisfied over swearing oath to saints and having to wear a surplice (new ordinary). He declined Bishop of Gloucester post. He was imprisoned for failure to preach and then compromised upon Hoopers return.

Question 23

What did Northumberland do in 1551?

Answer 23

Deprived conservative bishops, giving reformists a majority among bishops

Question 24

What religious events/ reforms occurred in 1552?

Answer 24

Government embarked in a large scale programme of protestant reform
New Treason Act
Second Act of the Uniformity
Second Book of Common Prayer

Question 25

What did the new Treason Act consist of?

Answer 25

Made it an offence to question Royal Supremacy/ any beliefs of the church

Question 26

What proclamation was called in December 1549?

Answer 26

Confirmed by parliament ordering for destruction of the remaining Catholic images

Question 27

What physical changes of the Church occurred in November 1550?

Answer 27

Removal of stone altars to wooden

Question 28

Which Prayer Book shows a more noticeable move towards Protestantism?

Answer 28

the second

Question 29

How long will people be imprisoned for for using another form of worship?

Answer 29

6 months

Question 30

How did small villages respond to religious reforms?

Answer 30

They did what they wanted and pretended to follow the rules when checked

Question 31

When was the Second Book Prayer book released?

Answer 31

January 1552

Question 32

What was the significance of the Second Prayer Book in religious reform?

Answer 32

Removed all traces of Catholicism - ‘fully reformed’

Question 33

When was the Second Uniformity Act released?

Answer 33

April 1552

Question 34

What did the Second Uniformity act enforce?

Answer 34

Enforced second prayer book and made it an offence not to attend church

Question 35

When was the Black rubric enforced and why?

Answer 35

November 1552. Edward felt it was important

Question 36

What was enforced in November 1552?

Answer 36

Black Rubric

42 Articles

Question 37

What is the significance of the 42 articles?

Answer 37

Strongly protestant articles (lutheran// loose Calvinism). Issued by government but never became a law due to Edwards death.

Question 38

Was there any unrest during radicalisation of protestantism under northumberland?

Answer 38

No

Question 39

What were the general views of the religious change?

Answer 39

Confusion and criticism.

In 1549, only 8% wills were protestant in the general Eastern region (including London).