Elizabeth and Religion

The Act of Supremacy

The Act of Uniformity

57 injunctions

39 Articles

Doran's views on the 39 Articles

Act of Exchange

Also as part of the Religious Settlement

How was the Religious Settlement enforced

Settlement described as Erastian - what does this mean and why important

How long did it take for Settlement to be finalised

Bills sent to the Commons : Act of Supremacy and bill to introduce a Book of Common Prayer

Elizabeth's ministers presented new bills of Supremacy and Uniformity to the Commons having decided to prorogue Parliament

Concessions to Catholics in Settlement

Duffy's view on Catholic beliefs

Marian Bishops refused to take the compulsory oath to the Act of Supremacy – deprived of office (not executed though!).

Which Marian exiles were given bishoprics instead

12 pence fine for refusing to go to church was created. Recusancy increased during Elizabeth’s reign, although this rise may be due to increased diligence in enforcing attendance.

Catholic clergy refusing to take the oath of supremacy, saying mass, or arranging for it to be said, faced the death penalty, although this wasn’t implemented before 1577.

Haigh view on Catholics in North

Pius IV died. Pius V stepped up Catholic opposition to Elizabeth’s settlement and made Pius IV statement known to English Catholics

Mary, Queen of Scots arrived in England

William Allen founded Douai college in the Netherlands to train priests for missionary work in England

Revolt of the Northern Earls

Papal Excommunication of Elizabeth

Guy argues excommunication = what

Ridolfi Plot

Norfolk executed

Treason Act

Act forbidding the bringing of Papal Bulls into England

Act Against Fugitives Over the Sea

Seminary Priests from Douai started arriving as a precursor to Jesuits

The missionary Cuthbert Mayne executed for bringing a papal Bull into England.

Bishops ordered to file records of their recusants

Nicholas Sander was encouraged by the Pope to stir trouble in Ireland – Pope had also persuaded Philip II to send approx. 1000 Spanish soldiers to assist. Was crushed by 1581, and achieved little, but was a mark of escalating tension that catholic rebels now had international support.

By now over 100 Douai priests in England

Robert Parsons and Edmund Campion – first Jesuits – arrived in England

Bossy's argument regarding Jesuits

Haigh's argument regarding Jesuits

Capture and Execution of Edmund Campion

Act to retain the Queen’s Majesty’s Subjects in their True Obedience and the Act against Seditious Words and Rumours

Between 1581 and 1603 how many Catholics were executed

Throckmorton Plot

Assassination of William of Orange
Revived fears of assassination

Act against Jesuits, seminary priests and such other disobedient Persons

Hughes claim about the Act against Jesuits, seminary priests and such other disobedient Persons

Alan Smith claim about War with Spain

Babington Plot

Execution of Mary Queen of Scots

Spanish Armada

George Blackwell appointed Archpriest of England by Rome

When was the Edict of Nantes and what did it do

By 1603 what were statistics for seminary priests + what were 'Appellants'

Catholic Threat debate Historians summary

Dickens on Catholicism

Johnson on Catholicism

Guy on Catholicism

Doran on Catholicism

Conformist Puritan threat summary

Presbytarians threat summary

Separatists threat summary

Collinson on Presbytarians

Bindhoff on Presbytarians

Guy on Puritans

Convocation producing the 39 Articles

Reason why Elizabeth also refused to allow the 39 Articles to be confirmed by Parliament?

Vestiarian Controversy

Vestiarian Controversy Details

Thomas Cartwright Lectures

Cartwright lost his job an exiled

Alphabet Bills

E forbade Parliament to discuss religious bills not originating with the Bishops

John Field and Thomas Wilcox published their 'Admonition to Parliament'

Archbishop Parker died. Replaced by Grindal; Marian exile

Prophesying Scandal

Whitgift's 3 Articles

What type of Puritan was Whitgift

John Copping and Elias Thacker were hanged for distributing works by Robert Browne and Robert Harrison.

Browne returned to England, submitted to Whitgift and was ordained as a minister in the CofE. This should have been the end of the Separatist threat really but his leadership was replaced by Henry Barrow and John Greenwood, who spent most of their time in prison.

[Feb] Anthony Cope introduces into Parliament A Bill and a Book.
Proposed:
Replacing Book of Common Prayer with Genevan prayer Book
Introducing Genevan church government

Martin Marprelate Tracts (7 in total) – attacked organisation of church.

Field / Leicester died

Walsingham died

Hacket Scandal

Act against Seditious Sectaries

Lambeth Articles drawn up by who when why

Summary Comment Warren assessment fo Puritan Threat