Religious Change under Mary Flashcards
1553
Arrested and imprisoned Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley, John Hooper and Archbishop Cranmer. High profile bishops. 7 removed.
Royal proclamation- no persecution, misled by Lord Protectors.
2,000 married clergy thrown out- shortage as needed to train more.
October 1553
Significant Parliament legislation- repealed:
Cranmer’s changes to 1 and 2 B of CP.
Acts of Uniformity- 1549 and 1552
Clergy could not marry
Cranmer’s 43 articles of doctrine for the church- outlaws by P could not become law.
December 1553
Mary gives up title of Supreme Head of the Church.
November 1554
New parliament sitting. Reginald Pole (C Yorkist banished by H) returned as Papal L. WORKING WITH AN ENEMY- SHOWS HER STENGTH OF RELIGION.
P repealed all of legislation against the Pope under H. Henrician reformation is removed via 2nd act of repeal.
POPE IS NOW HEAD- GAVE UP IMMENSE POWER.
Pole’s polices/actions in Mary’s name.
Old C bishops thrown out by E restored and new ones brought in to replace those arrested.
New seminaries established-train priests C- shortage.
Church fabric and services changed back e.g. Latin service books printed again.
New C theology books published to counter-act P publications like Cranmer’s book of Homilies.
1554-58 64 new C books published in E.
Radical P chased out (eliminate problem/threat)- approx. 800 by 1558.
Pope granted absolution to E people and a return to C. Excommunication reversed formally.
1555
Pope, Mary and Parliament- compromise over monastic lands sized and sold by H- WOULD NOT BE RETURNED TO CHURCH. Stopped hedge opposition from P developing.
(Attempted to establish more but couldn’t because of debt/cost and change in society since 1530s- not a great landowner anymore.
1556
Cranmer executed (all 4 were) and Pole made Archbishop.
1556-58 Persecution
300 burned- high and low in society.
All 4 burnt as a matter of revenge- Cranmer especially for Aragon (Mother).
Fox book of Martyrs used as radical publication to turn Mary’s policy against her.
Burnings WERE supported by C sections of gentry and ordinary subjects but reviled by P.- Wyatt Rebellion.
(Ed burnt heretics 2, H 12).
