religion

• divine rights of kings


  monarchs are selected by god and are the closest thing on earth to god
• 1605 – the gunpowder plot


  Group of catholics conspired to blow up parliament, assassinate James and establish catholic rule in England (Robert Catesby and Guy Fawkes).

  Failed after a letter was sent to Lord Monteagle
• catholic categories


  James promised to categorise catholics however they were both punished the same way and considered traitors

  • 'traitors death' hung, drawn and quartered if caught as a catholic
• quiet catholics


  catholics who kept their religion to themselves and outwardly conformed
• fractious catholics


  catholics who openly rebelled and spread their religion
• 1603 – recusancy fines


  fines for not going to church which were not harshly enforced – led to questions on how James treated catholics
• 1606 – oath of allegiance


  all subjects have to pledge allegiance to the king

  catholics have to pledge which suggests they are more loyal to the king than their religion
• the jacobethan balance – D.L Smith


  James acknowledged all factors of protestantism but none of them had true full support

  lead to a church that was universally protestant with no favourites
• 1604 – Hampton court conference


  met with puritans to hear their demands

  the king thought that Dr Reynolds suggested the abolition of episcopacy which made him suspicious that they wanted to remove him

  established the King James Bible
• the King James Bible


  bible translated to English, removed the concept of marginilla

  encouraged people to read and write – everyone can access religion

  appeases puritans, offends catholics
• why were catholics offended by the King James Bible?

  they did not believe that the word of God should be changed, everyone should be able to interpret it in their own way
• 1603 – millenary petition


  puritan requests for modification in church service:

  • abolition of the sign of the cross
  • education of ministers mandatory
  • reform of ecclesiastical courts
• 1604 – Bancroft canons


  all clergy had to subscribe to all 39 articles and everything in the prayer book
• what happened if the clergy did not conform to the Bancroft canons?

  expelled from their position
• 1606 – Parliament passed two harsh laws against Catholics but James did not harshly enforce them, why?


  he preferred peace 'pacifus rex' and wanted to avoid conflict with spain

  he had a significant amount of power and catholics were not as much of a threat as they had been since the gunpowder plot