Religion 1532-1547

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Submission of the clergy
May 1532
The Clergy accepts the charges, reducing the power of the church
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Act in restraint of Appeals
April 1533
Stated that the King did not need to appeal to Rome on matters of justice, reducing the influence of the Papacy
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Act in restraint of Annates
Nov/Dec 1534
Stopped payments to Rome, and gave Henry VIII unlimited powers of Patronage
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Act of Supremacy
November 1534
Declares that the King is 'the only Supreme Head on Earth of the Church of England
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The Treason Act
1534/1552
Makes it a crime to deny any of the King's titles, the Oath of Supremacy, or any beliefs of the English Church
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Valor Ecclesiasticus set up
January 1535
Set up by Cromwell on Henry VIII's orders, beginning 'visitations' of the monasteries
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Act to dissolve the Lesser Monasteries
February 1536
The beginning of the legal process by which King Henry VIII set about the Dissolution of the Monasteries
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The Pilgrimage of Grace
October 1536
Uprising beginning in Yorkshire, spreading to other parts of Northern England, led by Robert Aske
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Act to dissolve the remaining monasteries
1539
All larger monasteries now dissolved, and land taken by the crown
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All religious houses dissolved
1540
Disbanded, priories, convents and friaries, in England, Wales and Ireland; their land being taken by the crown
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Ten Articles
1536
Named Baptism, Penance and the Eucharist as the only 3 necessary sacraments (Lutheran influence)
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Bishop's Book
1537
Restored the other 4 sacraments omitted from the Ten Articles, but gave them a lower status. Significantly more conservative than the Ten Articles
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Six Articles Act
1539
Restored Catholic doctrine, and deemed the denial of Transubstantiation heretical. This was a triumph for the conservatives
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King's Book
1543
revised the Bishop's Book; significant as the emphasis was largely conservative, with Lutheran hints
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Royal injunctions issued
July 1547
Attacked traditional Catholic practices
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Dissolution of the Chantries
December 1547
Abolished chantries and guilds, seizing their property for the crown. Possibly to fund expensive foreign policy
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Act of Uniformity
January 1549
Imposed a single standard of worship, meaning all church services had to be in English
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Book of Common Prayer introduced
May 1549
Set out the form that all serves should take and moderate changes to the meaning of Mass (less radical)
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Second Act of Uniformity
March 1552
Northumberland made this more strict than the previous act, making it an offence for the clergy not to attend services, punishable by fine or imprisonment
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42 Articles of Religion published
June 1553
Reflected Edward's increasing influence, defining the essentials of faith of the Church of England and confirming the official nature of Protestant doctrine
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Card 2

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April 1533
Stated that the King did not need to appeal to Rome on matters of justice, reducing the influence of the Papacy

Back

Act in restraint of Appeals

Card 3

Front

Nov/Dec 1534
Stopped payments to Rome, and gave Henry VIII unlimited powers of Patronage

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

November 1534
Declares that the King is 'the only Supreme Head on Earth of the Church of England

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

1534/1552
Makes it a crime to deny any of the King's titles, the Oath of Supremacy, or any beliefs of the English Church

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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