Topic 7 The Puritan Threat Flashcards
What had happened to puritans during Mary’s reign?
Forced to flee abroad, came into contact with beliefs of John Calvin
What did puritans believe in?
Simpler/purer form of worship
What were calvinists?
Puritans who followed ideas of John Calvin
What did puritans believe about the role of bishops?
Invention of pope to maintain his power over church
What were 2 catholic traditions/practises that puritans opposed?
Display of ornaments/paintings/stained glass
Making sign of cross
What were 3 things puritans opposed as they believed people should lead simpler lives?
Gambling
Entertainment
Swearing
What were the 3 types of puritans?
Moderate
Presbyterians
Separatists
What did moderate puritans believe?
Accepted religious settlement, hoped for further reform
What did Presbyterians believe?
Wanted reform, abolition of bishops, churches run by committees
What did separatists believe?
Radical puritans, wanted break away from national church, independent/self controlling churches
What were 4 puritans challenges to the religious settlement?
Vestments controversy 1566
Proposals by Thomas Cartwright 1570
Pamphlet by john Stubbs 1579
Marprelate tracts 1588
When was the vestments controversy?
1566
What was the vestments controversy in 1566?
Puritans rejected order issued by Archbishop of Canterbury for priests to wear vestments
What happened to the puritan priests who refused to wear vestments?
37 dismissed in London
When were the proposals by Thomas Cartwright?
1570
What were the proposals by Thomas Cartwright in 1570?
Series of lectures calling for Presbyterian system of church
What happened to Thomas Cartwright?
forced to flee to Geneva
When was the pamphlet of John Stubbs?
1579
What was the pamphlet of John Stubbs 1579?
Criticised Elizabeth for marriage talks with Duke of Anjou (French catholic nobleman)
What happened to John Stubbs?
Arrested, right hand cut off for seditious writing
When were the Marprelate Tracts?
1588-89
What were the Marprelate Tracts 1588?
Anonymous pamphlets, severely criticised church and bishops
Why did the Marprelate Tracts lose puritan support?
Contained offensive language
Who were 5 puritan MPs that proposed further reform of the church?
Walter Strickland 1571
John Field and Thomas Wilcox 1572
Peter Wentworth 1576
Peter Turner 1584
Anthony Cope 1586
What happened to the puritan MPs who proposed further reform of the church?
Imprisoned in tower/prevented from attending HOC
Which puritan MP complained MPs did not have the freedom to discuss what they wanted in parliament?
Peter Wentworth 1576
How did Elizabeth respond to Peter Wentworth in 1576?
Closing parliament down, ordered not discuss religious matters without her permission, Wentworth imprisoned in tower
Which MP tried to introduce a bill to replace the book of common prayer with the Geneva Prayer book of John Calvin?
Anthony Cope 1586
What were 2 developments in the puritan movement from the 1570s onwards that were seen as a threat to Elizabeth?
Separatists
Prophesyings
What did Elizabeth order Archbishop Grindal to do in 1576?
Ban prophesyings
Why did archbishop Grindal refuse to ban prophesyings?
Sympathetic to puritan ideas
What happened to Archbishop Grindal as a result of refusing to carry out Elizabeth’s instructions?
Suspended from duties and confined to his house
Who was Archbishop Grindal replaced by in 1583?
John whitgift
What was Archbishop John Whitgifts attitude to puritan ideas?
Little sympathy
What did Archbishop John Whitgift issue in 1583 that demanded uniformity from all clergy?
His Three Articles
What did Robert Browne do?
Set up separatist congregation in Norwich
What were Robert Browns followers called?
Brownists
What happened to Robert Brown?
Imprisoned, then emigrated to Holland
What was the separatist movement in the 1580s?
Strict puritans left established church and set up their own churches
What was the Act against Seditious Sectaries?
Authorities could execute suspected separatists
When was the act against seditious sectaries?
1593
What ended the separatist movement?
Arrests/executions following Act against Seditious Sectaries
