the puritain threat

Question 1

name 8 things that puritains were against

Answer 1

-bowing when the name Jesus was said
-kneeling to receive communion
-rings in marriage
-ornamentation in church
-celebration of saints days
-playing games on a sunday
-gambling
-going to the theatre

Question 2

what three things did the puritains believe in?

Answer 2

-people should live a life according to scriptures
-sunday was the Lords day and was devoted to religious studies
-clothing was plain (usually black and white)

Question 3

why did proestants not like bishops?

Answer 3

they said it was an intervention of the pope and that there was no mention of them in the bible

Question 4

what was the view of Elizabeth and the bishops towards the protestants?

Answer 4

they viewed their ideas with suspicion and saw them as a direct threat to the power of the crown

Question 5

what is a moderate puritain?

Answer 5

they reluctantly accepted the religious settlement but called for further reforms to purify the church (least hot)

Question 6

what is a presbyterian?

Answer 6

wanted to abolish bishops and for each church to be run by a committee of Presbyters (teachers or elders) elected by the people (middle kind)

Question 7

what is a seperatist?

Answer 7

they wanted to break away from the church to be indipendent and run its own affairs AKA brownists (most hot)

Question 8

when was the vestiments controversy?

Answer 8

1566

Question 9

what set off the vestiments controversy?

Answer 9

Matthew Parker issued a “book of advertisements” which laid down rules for conducting services and wearing vestiments. Many Puritan priests refused because they were similar to those worn by catholic priests.

Question 10

what happened as a result of the vestments controversy?

Answer 10

37 priests were dissmissed from their jobs and no reforms were made

Question 11

when were the proposals by Thomas Cartwright?

Answer 11

1570

Question 12

what was proposed in the proposals by thomas cartwright?

Answer 12

he called for a Presbyterian system of church government (run by teachers and elders) but this would have weakned the power of the queen

Question 13

what happened as a result of the proposals by thomas cartwright

Answer 13

it was rejected and he was forced to leave england and go to geneva

Question 14

when did john stubbs writehis marriage pamphlet?

Answer 14

1579

Question 15

what was john stubbs’ marriage pamphlet about?

Answer 15

it criticised the queen for discussing marriage talks with the Duke of Anjou (a french roman catholic)

Question 16

what happened to john stubbs as a result of the marriage pamphlet?

Answer 16

he was arrested, charged with seditious writing, scenetenced to have his right hand cut off and imprisoned for 18 months.

Question 17

when were the marprelate tracts published?

Answer 17

1588-89

Question 18

what were the marprelate tracts?

Answer 18

a series of anonymous pamphlets were published that attacked the church and the bishops. the authours were never identifies and lost the suppourt of the puritains as they contained offesive and sarcastic language whoch puritains do not stand for.

Question 19

-who were the two clergymen who published books about how the Presbyterian church was the one in the Bible
-when did they publish these books
-how was this dealt with

Answer 19

-John Field and Thomas Wilcox
-1572
-both men were arrested and imprisoned for a year for breaking the Act of Uniformity

Question 20

What is a prophesying?

Answer 20

The meeting of ministers to practice their preaching skills

Question 21

What were the three articles and who were they written by?

Answer 21

Regulations by John Whitgift in 1583 demanding uniformity

Question 22

Who were the Brownists?

Answer 22

Separatists that followed Robert Browne

Question 23

Who was Edmund Grindal?

Answer 23

He was appointed the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1576

Question 24

What did Grindal do that upset Elizabeth?

Answer 24

-Elizabeth asked him to ban all prophesyings as she thought they would encourage rebellions
-Grindal didn’t think they were dangerous so refused to follow these orders
-becuase of this, Elizabeth suspended him from his duties and issued her own instructions to bishops to stop prophesying

Question 25

Who was John Whitgift? How was he different to Grindal?

Answer 25

-Replaced Grindal as Archbishop of Canterbury in 1583
-he had little sympathy and enforced strict control over the clergy to prevent any Presbyterian practiced

Question 26

What did Whitgift’s strict control result in?

Answer 26

Some Puritains had to go underground. Robert Browne set up on of these breakaway movements in Norwich. He was imprisoned.

Other leaders were ordered to be hung for handing out pamphlets

Question 27

What were the three ways in which Elizabeth dealt with the Puritan threat?

Answer 27

-Three Articles & John Whitgift
-The Act of Seditious Secretaries
-imprisoning and hanging separatists

Question 28

When was the Act of Seditious Secretaries set?

Answer 28

1593

Question 29

What was the Act of Seditious Secretaries

Answer 29

Authorities were given power to imprison, banish or execute suspected seperatists

Question 30

Was the act of seditious secretaries successful?

Answer 30

Yes. Following the execution of 3 leaders in 1593 the movement ended.

Question 31

who was walter strickland?

Answer 31

-puritain MP for Yorkshire

Question 32

when did Walter Strickland propose a bill calling for puritain reforms?

Answer 32

1571

Question 33

how did Elizabeth react to Walter Strickland’s proposals?

Answer 33

she closed parliament before his ideas could be discussed

Question 35

Give an example of a bishop who was sympathetic of Puritain beliefs?

Answer 35

Edmund Grindal

Question 36

How many people refused to swear acceptance of Whitgifts Three Articles?

Answer 36

300-400 ministers - they were removed from office