Topic 7 - the Puritan threat

Question 1

What was a Puritan?

Answer 1

An extreme Protestant

Question 2

What did Puritans want to do to the Church?

Answer 2

Rid it of all Catholic associations and follow a ‘purer’ form of worship

Question 3

When did Puritans begin to spread?

Answer 3

During the reign of Edward VI (1547-53)

Question 4

Where did many Puritans go when Mary Tudor became queen?

Answer 4

Geneva, Zurich, Frankfurt and Strasbourg

Question 5

Who was a famous and influential Puritan?

Answer 5

John Calvin

Question 6

Why did Puritans oppose the 1559 Religious Settlement?

Answer 6

It involved too many Catholic elements

Question 7

On what grounds did Puritans oppose bishops?

Answer 7

There was no mention of their role in the Bible

Question 8

What were some behaviors that Puritans opposed?

Answer 8

Bowing when the name of Jesus was said, kneeling to recieve communion, giving a marriage ring, celebrating saints day and decorating churches

Question 9

What actions did Puritans oppose?

Answer 9

Entertainment on Sundays, gambling, visiting the theatre, being drunk and swearing

Question 10

What were the three types of Puritans?

Answer 10

Moderate Puritans, Presbyterians and Separatists

Question 11

What was a Separatist?

Answer 11

The most radical Puritan, they wanted to breal away from the national church and have every church run its own affairs on a parish by parish basis

Question 12

When was the Vestments Controversy?

Answer 12

1566

Question 13

What did Puritans oppose about Vestments?

Answer 13

They believedd that the clothing was too similar to the clothes of a Catholic priest

Question 14

Who was Thomas Cartwright?

Answer 14

A professor of divinity at Cambridge

Question 15

What proposals were made by Thomas Cartwright?

Answer 15

He suggested that the church abolish the archbishop and all bishops, that each church should be ruled locally by ministers and elders from the community, and that the congregation elects these ministers

Question 16

Who was John Stubbs?

Answer 16

A puritan and political commentator

Question 17

What did John Stubbs critisise Elizabeth about in his pamphlet in 1579?

Answer 17

Her marriage talks with the French, Roman Catholic, Duke of Anjou

Question 18

How did Elizabeth punish Stubbs?

Answer 18

He was arrested, put on trial and charged with sedacios writing; he had his right hand cut off and was imprisioned for 18 months

Question 19

When were the Marprelate Tracts?

Answer 19

1588-89

Question 20

What were the Marprelate Tracts?

Answer 20

A series of anonymous pamphlets that bitterly attacked the church and bishops; they contained violent and sarcastic language, completely opposite to how Puritans believed they should behave

Question 21

How did people respond to the Marprelate Tracts?

Answer 21

Protestants wrote their own pamphlets against Puritan views, most namely Richard Hooker in 1593

Question 22

Who were notable Puritans within the Privy Council?

Answer 22

The Earl of Leicester and Sir Francis Walshingham

Question 23

What did Walter Strickland do?

Answer 23

In April 1571, he proposed a bill in parliament calling for the introduction of a new Book of Common Prayer, as well as for the banning of vestments, using a ring in marriage and kneeling during communion

Question 24

How was Walter Strickland punished?

Answer 24

He was prevented from attending the House of Commons by the Privy Council

Question 25

What did Peter Wentworth do?

Answer 25

He complained that MPs couldn’t discuss what they wanted in parliament

Question 26

What did Peter Turner do?

Answer 26

He proposed a bill to change the government to copy Calvin’s style in Geneva; the bill failed

Question 27

What were prophesyings?

Answer 27

Meetings led by Puritans during which prayers and sermons were said

Question 28

Who was the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1576?

Answer 28

Edmund Grindal

Question 29

What did Grindal do about the phrophesyings?

Answer 29

He was sympathetic to Puritan ideas, and after being asked by the queen to ban the meetings, he refused to do so

Question 30

How was Grindal punished for not banning the meetings?

Answer 30

He was confined to his house at Lambeth Palace, susoended frim his duties and prevented from functioning as leader of the Church

Question 31

What were the Three Articles of 1583?

Answer 31

Rules that forced clergy to accept bishops, accept all that was contained in the Book of Common Prayer and accept the thirty-nine articles

Question 32

How many ministers did not swear acceptance to the Three Articles?

Answer 32

Between 300 and 400, of which were removed from office

Question 33

Who issued the Three Articles?

Answer 33

John Whitgift, a devout Angelican and member of the Privy Council

Question 34

Why were separatists know as Brownists?

Answer 34

One of the leaders of the separatist movements was Robert Browne

Question 35

Why did separatists oppose the Church of England?

Answer 35

It contained too many Catholic elements, and demonstrated a lack of moral discipline

Question 36

When was the Act against Seditious Sectaries passed?

Answer 36

1593

Question 37

What did the Act against Seditious Sectaries do?

Answer 37

It gave authorities the power to execute those suspected of being separatists

Question 38

Who was notably executed as a result of the Act against Seditio