the catholic at home challenge

• th Catholic Churches attempt to reverse the protestant reformation in Europe and stop it spread was known as the counter reformation
• in 1566 the pope issued instructions no to attend the Church of England services
• recusants 


  practised the catholic religion in secret Elizabeth tolerated them as to avoid a rebellion
• one third of the English nobility and a large part go the gentry were recusants
• Catholic nobility tended to be from traditional and wealthy families they resented there loss of influence under Elizabethan rule and disliked the growing influence or Sir William Cecil and Robert Dudley
• 1534


  act of supremacy
• 1517


  start of reformation
• 1553-58


  Catholicism restored under Mary Tudor
• 1559


  Elizabeths religious settlement
• 1545-63


  council of Trent and counter reformation leads to determination to reverse gains made by Protestantism since reformation