3. Challenge to James I and the Church of England from Puritans

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what were protestants sometimes referred to?
the 'hotter sort of protestant', those protestants whose lifestyles were more influenced by protestant principles
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what were the 'hotter sort of protestant' more concerned about than other?
reforming the church further away from remnants of catholicism, i.e. ornate religious buildings and lavish ceremonial robes
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in 1603 what did a group of puritans present to James I when he was travelling to London to claim his English throne?
their Millenary Petition. It was a list of requests calling for modifications in church services, freedom of minsters to not wear ceremonial robes, education requirements for ministers and reform of ecclesiastical courts
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what was James a firm believer in and what did this mean?
firm believer in predestination and was therefore not unsympathetic to some of the puritan requests
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in July 1603 what did James announce?
that all income from impropriated tithes would in future be devoted to paying better salaries to church ministers
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why did James call a religious conference at Hampton Court in 1604?
to establish how he wanted the church settled and in response to the millenary petition
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who was the person who wrote the primary historical source for the conference?
William Barlow a representative of the extreme wing of Church's establishment
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what did this lead many people to believe?
James was hostile to puritans, yet it had been shown that he was willing to listen to puritan demands
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what was the only serious clash at the Hampton Court conference?
when the king mistakenly thought that Dr Reynolds, one of the Puritans, advocated the abolition of episcopacy, not a modified form
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what was the only permanent achievement from the conference?
the beginning of the new English translation of the bible known as the King James Bible, completed in 1611
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why did the King James Bible become a significant political vehicle?
reinforced the kings authority rather than the popes
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in september 1604 what did James give his full support to?
church laws known as Bancrofts canons which were passed by a convocation of CoE clergymen
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why did James agree to the Bancrofts cannons?
james felt that the conference should be a settlement of all the matters that were being questioned by the Puritans
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what did these church laws upheld in the Bancrofts Canons?
many orthodox doctrines and liturgies of the church as well as practices that had been condemned by the puritans in the Millenary Petition i.e. use of sign of the cross etc
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what happened in December 1604?
Richard Bancroft was installed as the new Archbishop of Canterbury, at which time James intended to initiate a drive for conformity with the 1604 canons
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what did Bancroft order?
that all clergy who refused to conform to the 1604 canons should be expelled from their positions
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what did Bancrofts order lead to?
a wave of petitions but only one percent of minters were actually removed for not conforming to the canons
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