Problems with religion

• What was the act of supremacy?

  • It made Elizabeth supreme governor of the church
  • as Catholics believed the head of the church was the pope
  • it involved the oath of supremacy where people had to swear allegiance to the Monarch (3 times or would be executed)
• Example or religious settlements or the middle way

  refer to priest

  • Protestant priests were supposed to wear ordinary clothing
  • whilst catholic wore red robes but could not get marries
  • therefore Elizabeth came up with the solution that priest were allowed to marry and also they had to wear special clothing or vestements
• Example of religious settlement or the mid way

  • refer to mass
  • Catholics had mass which was a main ceremony, whilst protestants did not
  • so instead of mass she created the holy communion service
  • Elizabeth had to be carefully that the wording did not offend catholics
• Example of religious settlement of the mid way

  • prayer books
  • Catholics believed that prayer books should be in Latin
  • whilst protestants believed that they should be in the country's native language
  • So prayer books were now in English
• The acts of uniformity

  • made Protestantism made England official religion
  • it set out some rules
  • and stop any variation in the faith
• An example of the act of uniformity

  • people who refused to attend church of England services had to pay a shilling
• What were the puritan threats( strict protestant) ?

  • wanted to purify the church and get rid of all of the catholic faith
  • many of the privy council pressured her to be harsher on catholics
• What did the puritan challenge?

  • they wanted a more extreme protestant church and also did not want to wear vestments
  • 1566 the Archbishop of canterbury held a special exhibition to show to people what they should be wearing
  • 37 did not attend and lost their jobs
• What were the Catholics challenge?

  • many Catholics believed that the pope should be the head of the church (Papacy)
  • she was excommunicated ( expelled from the catholic church) in 1570
  • many Catholics wanted to fight back against the Protestant church
  • example the revolt of the Northern Earls
• What was the royal injunction?

  • was a set of rules for the clergy's to follow like teaching people about the supremacy
• challenges faced by Spain

  • king Philip was a strict catholic
  • he did not like English supporting the French protestant
  • so he banned the import of English cloth which harmed England's economy