religion under Mary

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  • coversion to catholicism:
  • never a doubt that england would return to papal jurisdiction.
  • catholicism in england was well recieved.

main obstacles:

  • protestantism- had a strong support from people in the south and in london, shown in the Wyatt rebellion.
  • legal obstacles- mary counld not simply change from protestantism without parliamentarian support.
  • practical obstacles- benefited from the scale of monastic land and had no desire to surrender, mary was still reliant on thier support.

oppostion:

  • 80 mps voted against the repeal of edwardian religious laws.
  • over 800 individuals go into exile
  • almost 300 protestants die during the reign of mary.

first chnages:

  • 7 protestants bishops are deprived of their livings.
  • foreign protestants are ordered to leave the country.
  • in parliament, any who had married under edward were deprived of their livings until they left their wives. this posed a problem for the church ho were already short of the clergy.

changes to the law:

  • first parliament in october 1553, repealed the religious laws from edwards reign.
  • it did not chnage…

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