Hviii religious policy
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- Henry viii Religion
- Weaknesses of the church
- Corruption
- Pluralism - holding more than one post
- Simony - The selling and buying of church positions / office
- non - residence = receiving the profits of a post without actually showing up
- Wolsey was an example of corruption as he got his son a job in the church without training + had a wife and kid even though he was a cardinal / archbishop
- Anticlericalism
- Some lawyers wanted to reject canon law
- Some clergymen enjoyed legal privileges
- Richard Hume killed because of anti clericalism
- Corruption
- Dissolution of the monasteries
- 1536 - act for dissolution of lower monasteries (those worth £200 or less)
- 1539 - Act of dissolution of Greater monasteries - all monasteries were closed and land given to the crown
- 800 monasteries in total were dissolved
- Led to communities losing a place of education and worship
- Land was given to nobility and gentry to ensure loyalty yet they could also buy land at reduced prices which allowed the upper class to advance their wealth and status
- Catholic elements
- 1536 - Pilgrimage of Grace
- Stemmed from Cromwell's dissolution of smaller monasteries which made people scared that he would attack parishes and traditional church teaching such as pilgrimages
- 1537 - Bishops book the 4 'lost' sacraments were rediscovered but at lesser value
- 1539 - Act of 6 articles - marked a radical shift in doctrine - acknowledged transubstantiation and confession + banned marriages of priests
- 1543 - The King's book - revised the Bishop's book by defending transubstantiation and the 6 articles - written by Henry himself
- Anne Askew burned for denying transubstantiation - 1546
- 1536 - Pilgrimage of Grace
- Protestant elements
- 1532 - First Act of Annates - banned payment of annates to Rome and instead payed them to the church of England
- 1533 - Act in restraints of Appeals - began transferring papal powers to Henry
- 1534 - Second Act of Annates - Abbots and Bishops to be appointed by the King
- 1534 - Act if Supremacy - Henry was made supreme head of the church of England
- 1536 - Act of Dissolution fro smaller monasteries (under £200 income)
- 1536 - Act of 10 articles - the seven sacraments of catholic doctrine were rejected
- 1537 - Bishops book - no discussion of transubstantiation
- 1538 - royal injunctions - people discouraged from pilgrimages e.g. Thomas Beckett's shrine destroyed at Canterbury cathedral
- 1546 - Henry named a heavily protestant regency council to rule for Edward
- Acts
- 1534 - First Act of Succession - annulled Henry and Catherine's marriage and put Henry and Anne's children into the succession
- Weaknesses of the church
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