Religion

• When were the Heresy Laws restored?

  1554
• What happened when Rowland Taylor died at Hadleigh?


  There was the cry 'ah! There goeth our shepherd from us, that so faithfully hath taught us
• When were Mary's censorship proclamations? What did they do?


  28th july and 18th aug 1553, forbade the printing of false fond books, ballads, rhymes and other treatises... concerning matters of doctrine
• What happened in Meltown Molbray, Leicester?


  The altar was immediately rebuilt and masses were said despite the Edwardian reformation still being in force
• What happened on the 10th Nov 1558?

  5 Protestants were burned at the stake in Canterbury, in all about 300 people executed during Ms reign
• When were Bishops Latimer and Ridley burned for heresy in Oxford?


  16th Oct 1555
• What was said with regards to the execution of Ridley?


  His lips continued to move after his throat was so scorched he could make no sound
• When were the Royal injunctions issued and what did they do?


  March 1554, ordered bishops to suppress heresy and remove married clergy. Bishop Gardiner began to deprive married priests of their livings
• What happened as a result of the injunctions?


  243 priests lost their posts and eventually 10-25% of clergy were deprived for having married
• When was the Act of Repeal and what did it do?


  Autumn 1553, it undid the Edwardian reformation and the church was restored to what it had been in 1547 under the 6 articles. Refused to repeal act of supremacy
• When did Mary give up the title of supreme head of the church?


  Dec 1553
• When was the mass exodus of Protestants to Germany and Switzerland (approx 800) ?

  Jan 1554
• When did John Rogers become the first Protestant Martyr?


  Feb 1555
• When was Pole named Archbishop of Canterbury?


  Dec 1555
• When was Cranmer deprived of the see of Canterbury?


  13th Nov 1555
• When was Archbishop Cranmer arrested, Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley and John Rogers imprisoned?


  Sept 1553
• What did Robert Parkyn, a Yorkshire priest say about the changes when Mary came to power?


  All this came to pass without compulsion of any act, law or statute
• What did Haigh say about Mary's popularity?

  Mary's popularity was to do with the devotion people had for the Catholic faith
• What did Dawson say about the success of Mary's religion? (3 quotes)


  'Pole had established the basis for an effective, new Catholic church'

  'In practice, this allowed Catholics, a minority, to worship as they wished'

  'by 1559 only one of the Catholic Bishoprics accepted the religious settlement
• What did Loades say about Mary's attitude towards heretics?


  'The devil's agents who ensnared the souls of the innocent and ignorant and confused the faithful with a babble of false and conflicting doctrines'

  'Instead of being able to use practical loyalty to smash religious dissent which had the original intention, the government found the disaster of the Catholic marriage dragging the church to ruin
• What did Rathbone say with regards to heretics?


  The government seriously underestimated heretics. It was Gardiner's hope that to make an example of a few leading Protestants would soon frighten the rest into falling into line