Religious legislation 1529-47 Flashcards
When was the Act in Restraint of Appeals?
February 1533
What was the Act in Restraint of Appeals?
P/C?
Prevented appeals to Pope on religious matters, reducing the Pope’s influence in England
Protestant
When was the Act in Restraint of Annates?
1532
What was the Act in Restraint of Annates?
P/C?
Stopped payments to Rome and gave the king the right to appoint bishops
Further breaking with Rome - Protestant
What year was big for Protestant/ anti-Pope acts?
1534 - 7 acts in total passed
When was the Submission of the Clergy?
March 1534 (1)
What was the Submission of the Clergy?
P/C?
Gave king control of convocation and prevented church contact with Rome
Protestant
When was the Act of Succession?
March 1534 (2)
What was the Act of Succession?
P/C?
Ended Catherine of Aragon’s claim to be Henry’s wife, breaking papal authority
Protestant
When was the Dispensations Act?
March 1534 (3)
What was the Dispensations Act?
P/C?
Stopped all payments to Rome, with the Archbishop of Canterbury put in charge of deciding all legal cases that departed from church law
Protestant
When was the Act of Supremacy?
November 1534
What was the Act of Supremacy?
P/C?
Henry given control of the church, including the matters of doctrine and belief. Big one in break from Pope.
Protestant
When was the Act of First Fruit and Tenths
December 1534 (1)
What was the Act of First Fruit and Tenths?
P/C?
Holders of some church jobs had to pass money on to king. Pre-empts dissolution
Protestant
When was the Treason Act?
December 1534 (2)
What was the Treason Act?
P/C?
Made it a crime to criticise Henry’s marriage, successsion, and changes to the Church.
Preventing Catholic complaints - Protestant
When was the Dissolution of the Smaller Monasteries?
1536 (1)
What was the Dissolution of the Smaller Monsteries?
P/C?
Monasteries with income of under £200 per annum deemed to be unholy and decade - dissolved
Catholics held religious houses as important whereas Protestants thought were false - Protestant
HOWEVER Valor Ecclesiaticus praised the larger monasteries - some Catholicism
PLUS more about gaining money for war - motivated by neither
When was the Act of Ten Articles
1536 (2)
What was the Act of Ten Articles?
P/C?
Rejected 4/7 sacrements of Catholic belief - Protestant
BUT upheld other 3: baptism, Eucharist, and penance - Catholic
When were the first Royal Injunctions?
1536 (3)
What were the first Royal Injunctions?
P/C?
Attacked the Catholic practice of pilgrimages, and encouraged religious instruction
Protestant
When were the second Royal Injunctions?
1538
(2 years after the 1st set)
What were the second Royal Injunctions?
P/C?
- Ordered an English Bible to be present in all parishes within two years
- Discouraged pilgrimages
- Ordered removal of all relics
Protestant
When was the Dissolution of the Greater Monasteries?
1539-40 (1)
What was the Dissolution of the Greater Monasteries?
P/C?
Holiness of monasteries ‘disproven’
Protestants did not believe in importance of religious houses - saw them as upholders of traditional religion
HOWEVER at the same time MPs voted for an act promising that the wealth from the dissolution would be used to establish colleges, new bishoprics, bring other social benefits - possibly for religious benefits not entirely anti-Catholic
Give details on the Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Over 500 religious houses dissolved
- Crown income doubled
- Re-sale of monastic lands estimated at £1.3 million
When was the Act of Six Articles?
1539 (2)
What was the Act of Six Articles?
P/C?
Confirmed transubstantiation and forbade the taking of communion in both kinds
Confirmed Catholic practise while attacked reformed -Catholic
When was the Act for the Advancement of True Religion?
1543
What was the Act for the Advancement of True Religion?
Restricted access to the Bible to the upper-classes
Catholic
