Topic 5 - the Catholic threat Flashcards
Why was Elizabeth initially accepting of English Catholics?
Foreign threat, opposition from the House of Lords about Protestant parts of the religious settlement, fear of rebellion from nobles and the realisation that most of the population was still Catholic
Why did Elizabeth adopt a firmer approach towards reluctant Catholics?
Multiple Catholic plots against her, the arrival of seminary and Jesuit priests and the issue of the Papal Bull
What did the Papal Bull do?
Freed Catholics of any loyalty to Elizabeth and called for them to help remove her from the throne
What was a recusant?
Someone who rebelled against the Religious Settlement
How did Elizabeth try and deal with recusants?
An increased recusancy fine and making it a treasonable offence to try and convert someone to Catholicism
What were seminary priests?
Trained Catholic priests sent to England to try and restore Catholicism; 438 were sent and 98 were sentenced to death
What were Jesuits?
Members of ‘The Society of Jesus’, with the aim to destroy heresy
When did Jesuits arrive in England?
1580
What year was the act passed that confined Catholics to within 5 miles of their homes?
1593
Who was Edmund Campion?
A Jesuit priest who was sent to England, before being found guilty of treason and executed
When did Mary, Queen of Scots, arrive in England?
1568
Who did Mary, Queen of Scots, marry?
King Francis II
When did Mary return to Scotland?
1561
How was Scotland different when Mary returned?
It had become mainly Protestant after the rebellion of Protestant lords
Why was Mary, Queen of Scots, forced to abdicate?
After the suspected murder of her husband, she was imprisoned at Loch Leven Castle
When did Mary abdicate?
July 1567
When was the rebellion of the Northern Earls?
1569