The belief of godly Protestants that the Church of England needed to be purged of any remaining 'superstitious' (i.e. Catholic) practices.
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What was the Vestiarian Controversy?
Several figures within the Church decided they could not obey the rules on clerical dress in the Act of Uniformity+royal injunctions. The Queen dismissed Oxford academic Thomas Sampson for his refusal to wear required vestments.
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What was the 'Advertisements' + when?
1566: Released by Archbishop Parker + 5 other bishops, which required clergy to follow 1 uniformity of rites+manners and 1 decent behaviour in their outward apparel.
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Reaction to the Advertisements?
37 London clergymen refused to signify their support and were deprived of their posts. Reforming bishops were stuck between the need to obey the royal supremacy + the desire to remove the remaining vestiges of Catholic practice within the church
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What was the Presbyterian movement?
Believed that the CofE, which was already Calvinist in its doctrine, should be further reformed in its structure and its forms of worship.
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What were Presbyterian criticisms shown in?
1st admonition: Attacked the Book of Common Prayer+called for abolition of bishops. 2nd admonition: Detailed description of a Presbytarian system of Church government.
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Pamphlet war?
Between Cartwright (Presbyterian) and John Whitgift who argued that the Presbytarian movement would split the church.
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Failures of Presbytarian movement?
Geographically limited + failures of Peter Turner (1584) and Anthony Cope (1587) in parl to replaced the Book of Common Prayer w/a new prayer book stripped of 'Popish elements'.
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Archbishop Whitgift's Articles + attacks on Presbytarianism?
Clergy had to subscribe: 1) Acknowledge royal supremacy 2) Accept prayer book as containing 'nothing contrary to the word of God' 3) Accept that the Thirty-Nine Articles conformed to the word of God.
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Seperatists?
Most extreme Puritans: wanted to separate from the CofE altogether, opposed to Queen's status as Supreme Governor
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How did Puritan influence decline?
Deaths of Leicester (1588) Mildmay (1589) and Walsingham (1590), Spanish Armada, Lambeth Articles
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When+what were the Lambeth articles?
1595: Reasserted Calvinist Doctrine - accepted by Puritans and their opponents.
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When was the excommunication?
1570
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Penal laws against Catholics?
1571: Publication of papal bulls=treasonable 1581: Act to Retain the Queen's Majesty's Subjects in their Due Obedience (treason to withdraw allegiance to Queen or CofE) 1585: Act against Jesuits and Seminary Priests
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Act against Jesuits and Seminary Priests?
Treasonable for priests ordained under the Pope's authority to enter England.
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Catholic Missions? - Spanish Netherlands
1568: College founded in order to train Catholic priests to be sent to England to keep Catholicism alive.
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Catholic Missions? - Jesuits
1580: Jesuit priests, high intelligence+organisational skills w/a dedication to the cause of the restoration of Catholicism to England.
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Success of Catholic missions?
Limited: Became a 'country house religion', priests= divided over leadership of the missionary movement.
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Art?
English painting flourished, so did architecture, but the Queen was reluctant to commission new buildings (other courtiers made up for this)
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Literature?
Plays (Shakespeare) at the Globe, drew audiences from across the social classes.
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Music?
Music flourished: 1601 - Thomas Morley put together a collection of 25 madrigals entitled The Triumph of Oriana which honoured the queen (Gloriana).
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What was the Vestiarian Controversy?
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Several figures within the Church decided they could not obey the rules on clerical dress in the Act of Uniformity+royal injunctions. The Queen dismissed Oxford academic Thomas Sampson for his refusal to wear required vestments.
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