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Y107: England 1547–1603: The Later Tudors

Elizabeth and religion: religious situation and problems in 1558, Puritan challenge and aims

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Recall questions on the religious situation and problems in 1558, the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, the Puritan challenge and aims.

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Why did the foreign situation of 1558–59 push Elizabeth towards a cautious religious settlement?

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Why was Elizabeth styled Supreme Governor rather than Supreme Head of the Church?

Key term

Describe the religious position of England when Elizabeth came to the throne in November 1558.

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  1. 1

    Describe the religious position of England when Elizabeth came to the throne in November 1558.

    Model answer

    England was officially Catholic, with papal authority restored, a bench of Marian bishops in place and several hundred Protestant exiles waiting abroad to return.

  2. 2

    Why did the foreign situation of 1558–59 push Elizabeth towards a cautious religious settlement?

    Model answer

    England was still at war with France, Mary Queen of Scots was married to the French dauphin and claimed the English throne, and Philip II of Spain was needed as a counterweight, so an aggressively Protestant church risked uniting the Catholic powers against her.

  3. 3

    Name the two statutes of 1559 that made up the Religious Settlement and state what each did.

    Model answer

    The Act of Supremacy made Elizabeth Supreme Governor of the Church and restored royal authority over it; the Act of Uniformity imposed the 1559 Book of Common Prayer and fined absentees from church one shilling for each Sunday missed.

  4. 4

    Why was Elizabeth styled Supreme Governor rather than Supreme Head of the Church?

    Model answer

    The lesser title was less offensive to Catholics, who reserved headship to the Pope, and to Protestants who objected on scriptural grounds to a woman heading the Church.

  5. 5

    How did the 1559 Prayer Book try to satisfy both Catholic and Protestant opinion?

    Model answer

    It combined the communion words of the 1549 and 1552 books so that the sacrament could be understood either as the real presence or as a memorial, and its ornaments rubric preserved traditional vestments.

  6. 6

    What were the Thirty-Nine Articles?

    Model answer

    The doctrinal statement of the Elizabethan Church, agreed by Convocation in 1563 and given statutory force in 1571, defining a broadly Calvinist theology within an episcopal church.

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