Elizabethan Religious Settlement

BACKGROUND

She established her settlement post-Mary I, by passing two bills:

1) ACT OF UNIFORMITY = 1552 Prayer Book, 12d fine if not at church, uses 1549 Prayer Book Version of Communion to keep it ambiguous.

It passes by 21:8, and this is only because two bishops are arrested and Abbot of Westminster misses the vote!

2) OATH OF SUPREMACY = take oath or lose office (example all but one (Llandaff) of Mary's Bishops lose their posts and Parker is made Archbishop…