Religious Settlement

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Religious Settlement

Similarities

  • Neale believes that the House of Commons had the greatest influence on the religious settlement. Protestant resistance had the greatest influence on the religious settlement.
  • Elizabeth was most worried about the Supremacy and would accept something like the Henrician Church Settlement or based on the 1549 Edwardian Prayer Book.
  • The final settlement was more radical than the Queen had wanted.
  • Resistance to the Bills of Supremacy and Bills of Uniformity came from a Puritan Choir in the House of Commons.
  • The Puritan Choir were a well organised faction in the House of Commons who worked together in a co-ordinated manner.
  • This puritan Choir were motivated by their puritan beliefs to campaign on a number of issues such as the settlement, foreign affairs and the marriage and the succession question. These campaigns caused the House of Commons to step on a number of the Queen's prerogatives.

Differences

  • Norman Jones believes that the House of Lords had the greatest influence on the religious settlement. Catholic resistance had the greatest influence on the religious settlement.
  • Elizabeth wanted a settlement based on the 1552 Edwardian Prayer Book
  • The final settlement was more conservative than the Queen had wanted.
  • Resistance to the Bills of Supremacy and Uniformity came from the Catholic peers and especially from the Marian Bishops in the House of Lords.
  • Elizabeth was concerned about the powerful Catholic powers (especially France with its' links with Scotland) and their reaction to the settlement. She wanted peace and could not afford to continue a war.
  • There were no more than 25 Calvinist or Puritan MPs out of a House of Commons with over 400 members. They did not act as a co-ordinated faction and the Marian exiles had not yet returned to take their positions in the House of Commons.

Overall comparison

Some historians have added to Jones' argument that those MPs mistaken to be part of the Puritan Choir were actually the men of business of Privy Councillors and were used by the councillors so that the House of Commons would apply additional pressure to the Queen.

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