Topic 7 The Puritan Threat

Question 1

What had happened to puritans during Mary’s reign?

Answer 1

Forced to flee abroad, came into contact with beliefs of John Calvin

Question 2

What did puritans believe in?

Answer 2

Simpler/purer form of worship

Question 3

What were calvinists?

Answer 3

Puritans who followed ideas of John Calvin

Question 4

What did puritans believe about the role of bishops?

Answer 4

Invention of pope to maintain his power over church

Question 5

What were 2 catholic traditions/practises that puritans opposed?

Answer 5

Display of ornaments/paintings/stained glass
Making sign of cross

Question 6

What were 3 things puritans opposed as they believed people should lead simpler lives?

Answer 6

Gambling
Entertainment
Swearing

Question 7

What were the 3 types of puritans?

Answer 7

Moderate
Presbyterians
Separatists

Question 8

What did moderate puritans believe?

Answer 8

Accepted religious settlement, hoped for further reform

Question 9

What did Presbyterians believe?

Answer 9

Wanted reform, abolition of bishops, churches run by committees

Question 10

What did separatists believe?

Answer 10

Radical puritans, wanted break away from national church, independent/self controlling churches

Question 11

What were 4 puritans challenges to the religious settlement?

Answer 11

Vestments controversy 1566
Proposals by Thomas Cartwright 1570
Pamphlet by john Stubbs 1579
Marprelate tracts 1588

Question 12

When was the vestments controversy?

Answer 12

1566

Question 13

What was the vestments controversy in 1566?

Answer 13

Puritans rejected order issued by Archbishop of Canterbury for priests to wear vestments

Question 14

What happened to the puritan priests who refused to wear vestments?

Answer 14

37 dismissed in London

Question 15

When were the proposals by Thomas Cartwright?

Answer 15

1570

Question 16

What were the proposals by Thomas Cartwright in 1570?

Answer 16

Series of lectures calling for Presbyterian system of church

Question 17

What happened to Thomas Cartwright?

Answer 17

forced to flee to Geneva

Question 18

When was the pamphlet of John Stubbs?

Answer 18

1579

Question 19

What was the pamphlet of John Stubbs 1579?

Answer 19

Criticised Elizabeth for marriage talks with Duke of Anjou (French catholic nobleman)

Question 20

What happened to John Stubbs?

Answer 20

Arrested, right hand cut off for seditious writing

Question 21

When were the Marprelate Tracts?

Answer 21

1588-89

Question 22

What were the Marprelate Tracts 1588?

Answer 22

Anonymous pamphlets, severely criticised church and bishops

Question 23

Why did the Marprelate Tracts lose puritan support?

Answer 23

Contained offensive language

Question 24

Who were 5 puritan MPs that proposed further reform of the church?

Answer 24

Walter Strickland 1571
John Field and Thomas Wilcox 1572
Peter Wentworth 1576
Peter Turner 1584
Anthony Cope 1586

Question 25

What **happened to** the **puritan MPs** who **proposed further reform of the church**?

Answer 25

**Imprisoned in tower/prevented** from **attending HOC**

Question 26

Which **puritan MP complained MPs** did not have the **freedom to discuss what they wanted in parliament**?

Answer 26

**Peter Wentworth 1576**

Question 27

How did **Elizabeth respond to Peter Wentworth** in **1576**?

Answer 27

**Closing parliament down, ordered not discuss religious matters without her permission, Wentworth imprisoned in tower**

Question 28

Which **MP** tried to **introduce a bill** to **replace the book of common prayer** with the **Geneva Prayer book of John Calvin**?

Answer 28

**Anthony Cope 1586**

Question 29

What were **2 developments** in the **puritan movement** from the **1570s onwards** that were seen as a **threat to Elizabeth**?

Answer 29

**Separatists** **Prophesyings**

Question 30

What did **Elizabeth order Archbishop Grindal to do in 1576**?

Answer 30

**Ban prophesyings**

Question 31

Why did **archbishop Grindal refuse to ban prophesyings**?

Answer 31

**Sympathetic to puritan ideas**

Question 32

What **happened to Archbishop Grindal** as a result of **refusing to carry out Elizabeth’s instructions**?

Answer 32

**Suspended from duties** and **confined to his house**

Question 33

Who was **Archbishop Grindal replaced by in 1583**?

Answer 33

**John whitgift**

Question 34

What was **Archbishop John Whitgifts attitude to puritan ideas**?

Answer 34

**Little sympathy**

Question 35

What did **Archbishop John Whitgift issue in 1583** that **demanded uniformity from all clergy**?

Answer 35

His **Three Articles**

Question 36

What did **Robert Browne do**?

Answer 36

**Set up separatist congregation** in **Norwich**

Question 37

What were **Robert Browns followers called**?

Answer 37

**Brownists**

Question 38

What **happened to Robert Brown**?

Answer 38

**Imprisoned**, then **emigrated to Holland**

Question 39

What was the **separatist movement** in the **1580s**?

Answer 39

**Strict puritans left established church** and **set up their own churches**

Question 40

What was the **Act against Seditious Sectaries**?

Answer 40

**Authorities** could **execute suspected separatists**

Question 41

When was the **act against seditious sectaries**?

Answer 41

**1593**

Question 42

What **ended the separatist movement**?

Answer 42

**Arrests/executions** following **Act against Seditious Sectaries**