King James I's Attitudes to Catholics
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- Created on: 31-10-18 10:14
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- King James I's Attitude to Catholics
- James wanted Catholics to follow the law and look to the Monarchy.
- He also believed that no blood should be spilled over religious division.
- He wouldn't persecute 'any that will be quiet and give but an outward obedience to the law'
- In his view, he divided Catholics.
- Moderates - 'retained in their hearts the print of their natural duty towards their sovereignty'
- Extremists - e.g. Jesuits who he described as 'venomed wasps and firebrands of sedition'
- He thought that Jesuits and seminary priests should simply leave the realm.
- Re-imposed recusancy fines when Catholic power increased.
- about 40,000 Catholics in England in 1603.
- Even those who had agreed to take the Oath of Allegiance were not exempt from recusancy laws.
- After James' accession, the number of priests imprisoned and executed dropped.
- Death penalty was not affected --> 19 were sentenced to death during his death.
- Aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot (1605)
- The Gov implemented harsher penalties after the recommendation by the Lower House.
- Established financial penalties for the husbands of recusant wives.
- The number of Catholics increased: by 1625 they stood above 50,000.
- 1606 Penal Laws
- 1st penal law - Forbade Catholics to live near London or hold public office.
- 2nd penal law - Enabled the King to seize Catholic's property + impose fines +Had to take an oath repudiating the Pope's claim to depose Kings.
- He was hostile towards papists.
- James wanted Catholics to follow the law and look to the Monarchy.
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