T7-Puritans Flashcards
To which country did Puritans flee during Mary I reign?
Switzerland
Who was a key puritan thinker?
John Calvin
What did Separatists want?
Each church to be run independently without national church
What did Edmund Grindal refuse to do?
Ban prophesying and was put on house arrest by Elizabeth
What was the Act of Seditious Sectaries?
To counter the threat from separatists
Elizabeth executed them
Who was Thomas Cartwright?
-Oxford university lecturer
-Gave lectures challenging the Religous settlement
-He was fired and exiled to Geneva
Who was John Stubbs?
-He wrote pamphlets criticising the Queen for engaging in marriage talk with the Duke of Anjou of France
-Imprisoned and right hand cut off
What did Puritans want?
-Plain clothes
-Sunday= worship day
-Elected clergy
What did Puritans oppose?
-Vestments
-Swearing
-Church hierarchy
-Entertainment
What was the vestments controversy?
-Archbishop of Canterbury Mathew Parker ordered bishops to wear vestments
-Many refused and were fired (37 in London)
What were the Marprelate tracts?
-Series of anonymous pamphlets with offensive language attacking bishops
-Puritans lost support and respect
What were moderate puritans?
Had puritan beliefs but respected others
What were Presbyterians?
-Wanted church to be run by a committee of presbyters
-Abolition of bishops
-Well established in Scotland
Who were the most radical puritans?
Separatists (brownists)
Who was Strickland?
-Mp who wanted to ban rings, kneeling to pray and a new book of common prayer
-He was banned from House of Commons
Who was Wentworth?
Wanted freedom of speech about religion
Sent to tower of Londo
Treaty of Nonsuch
an alliance between Elizabeth I of England and the Dutch rebels fighting against Spanish rule
