Religious Policy Mary

• Members polit elites benefited financially from aquisition monastic land- had no desire surrender 
• Prot attracted adherents from London & the S
• 800 flea country from polit elites→ centres European Prot e.g. Geneva
• 80 MPs voted AGAINST repeal Edwardian legisl

• 289 Prots burnt at stake 
• 21 clergymen burnt 
• Majority burnings in S-E England
• Deaths brought widespread public sympathy 

• Image of'Bloody Mary' destroying inevitable advance Prot 

1st Parliament 1553 

• Repealed ecclesiastical laws made in Ed's reign
• Restored order of service as had been suring HVIII reign
• Reversing Ed legisl not alter legal status of CoE
• - M rely on parliamentary legisl secure reversal royal supremacy 
• - acknowledge superiority STATUTE LAW over divine law- going against findamental beliefs 

2nd Parliament 1554

• Legal action against Prot clergymen 
• Initially rejected reintro heresy laws
• - but agreed when former monastic lands not restored church ownership 

3rd Parliament 1554-55

• Issue of ex-monastic land- land not be restored to church
• Julius & Pole's insistence on submitting to Rome before dispensation= impossible 
• - land be in hands of Rome 
• insisted church submit & dispensation be awarded to landowners on individual basis  

• Pole's grudging attitude on church property made him object of suspicion among landowners- reputation unable recover 

Nature & argument between Pole's & M's councillors 

• Pole insisted civil rulers no right dispose church property
• M threatened abdicate (although bluffing) 

Compromise

• Statute repeal include papal dispensation
• - parl request for forgiveness for monastic property- owners rejected
• Reconciliation delayed & vital time lost before Cath finalised 

Matters get worse

• Pope Julius III dies 1555- succeeded by anti-spanish Paul IV
• Mary at war with papacy- Paul IV suspicious of Pole
• Paul IV's attitudes to Pole shown when withdrew legitime commission 1557- Pole no longer supervise church 

Reforms

• Success depend on commitment at parish level
• Difficult in the S
• Places in the N already Cath

Legatine Synod 1556-57

• Bishops reside in  diocese, preach & oversee religious life in parishes 

Loades

• Prots gained more than lost by being subject to persecution 

Heard

• By 1588 majority people England still undecided about religion

Haigh

• Marian reconstruction Cath= success