Religious Settlement (1586)

• Act of Supremacy: made Elizabeth the Supreme Governor of the Church, denying her position was considered treason
• Act Of Uniformity: made Protestant the country’s official faith, allowed priests to wear vestments, allowed decorations in church, prayer book in English
• Response: broad support + very refused to take an oath of loyalty to the queen, some Catholics and Puritans opposed
• Catholics: The Church in Western Europe before the Reformation
• Protestants: Christians who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation
• Puritans: Strict Protestants who disliked the Catholics and wanted to stop ritual services
• Catholic Threat: Pope issued a Papal Bull of Excommunication
• Puritan Threat: Many Puritans were government figures who may have used their status and power to get what they wanted