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Flashcards by amy.banks11, updated more than 1 year ago
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| What was the significance of the new Elizabethan Protestant Church? Whose church was it? | The settlement had reflected Elizabeth's beliefs and what she felt was practical for the new church in England. Both Elizabeth and Cecil had been motivated by their conscience and this would be true of the new bishops who would replace the old Catholic ones that resigned. |
| Elizabeth had created an English Protestant Church that reflected her preferences but also was broad in scope, particularly in the wording of Communion to include conservatives and radicals. | Elizabeth and Cecil had backed a Protestant church partly for political reasons. -It gave the crown independence from Rome and foreign powers. -Financially they needed to recover First Fruits and Tenths, the income tax on the clergy. -While sees were vacant Elizabeth stripped them of their remaining assets. If greed was a less obvious motive in 1559 it was because most of the church lands had already been taken. |
| -The political significance of the ownership of church lands was an important reason why the Protestant church had been set up so easily in 1559. The Protestant church offered landowners security, and in return they supported the royal supremacy. -Lord Rich voted for the Royal Supremacy because it protected his lands. He voted against the Act of Uniformity because the mass protected his soul. In 1559 the majority of Englishmen were conservative in their beliefs. | All but one of the Catholic bishops refused to take the oath of supremacy. They were dismissed and replaced by Protestant exiles. Matthew Parker had been made Archbishop of Canterbury in December 1558. The oath was a test of political allegiance to the crown. Clergy, gov't officials and teachers had to take it and failure to do so resulted in loss of jobs. |
| Parliament's role in the creation of the new church had been important but limited. The Queen, with Cecil, had initiated the legislation and had determined the form of the church settlement, which was reflected in the changes to the 1552 Prayer Book. She had used Parliament to pass the penal clauses which enabled her to enforce religious change. | But it could be argued that Parliament's power had grown significantly because according to the wording of the Act of Supremacy, the Royal Supremacy could only be exercised by the Queen in Parliament. But Elizabeth would not have accepted such a limitation on her power. She had only used Parliament for convenience because she needed the punishments to enforce her new beliefs and practices. |
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