Vocabulary

Question 1

Faction

Answer 1

rival or opposing political groups led by powerful nobles fighting for control of the monarch

Question 2

ruling elites

Answer 2

landowning class of noes and gentry who attended parliament and the court, controlled law and order and government and administration locally and centrally

Question 3

Protestant

Answer 3

those who had protested against and separated from the Roman Catholic Church

Question 4

Anglo-Catholicism

Answer 4

English Catholic Church set up in 1534 with the King as the head rather than the Pope

Question 5

Reformation

Answer 5

religious changes of the 16th century in England and continental Europe

Question 6

privy council

Answer 6

elite body of councillors drawn from nobility and more powerful gentry who met with the monarch to offer their advice, frame laws and govern the country

Question 7

minority government

Answer 7

government by councillors when the ruler is a child/minor

Question 8

regency council

Answer 8

select group of noble councillors governing the kingdom on behalf of a child

Question 9

catholic elites

Answer 9

most powerful and influential catholic politicians and landowners in kingdom

Question 10

poor laws

Answer 10

laws passed to deal with the poor and vagrant in society, many didn’t understand poverty and so many of the laws were designed to punish and control

Question 11

constitution

Answer 11

rules and regulations determine how a country is governed

Question 12

hasburgs

Answer 12

ruling family of Spain and Austria.

Question 13

repeal

Answer 13

laws are cancelled and removed from the statute book

Question 14

Marian government

Answer 14

government of Mary 1

Question 15

Elizabethan church settlement

Answer 15

organisation, ritual and teaching of Church of England enforced by acts of Parliament

Question 16

royal supremacy

Answer 16

act of Parliament restoring crown as head of the Church of England.

Question 17

Annates

Answer 17

a newly appointed bishop or archbishop was required to pay a third of his first years salary to the papacy

Question 18

convocation

Answer 18

the church equivalent of parliament which met at York and Canterbury to enact canon law

Question 19

praemunire

Answer 19

a form of treason, which meant favouring a foreign power over the king

Question 20

vicegerant in spirituals

Answer 20

Henry’s deputy in the church; gave the title to Thomas Cromwell in 1535

Question 21

transubstantiation

Answer 21

the catholic belief that at mass the bread and wine actually changes into the substance of the body and blood or Christ