Response to religious matters (AQA GCSE History): Flashcards

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By late 1580s, government attitude to Puritanism

Discouraged - seen as threat to religious settlement

Year of Religious Settlement

1559

Elizabeth's concern: predestination belief

Salvation predetermined by God, undermined Church role

Elizabeth's concern: vestments refusal

Act of defiance against Church practices & royal authority

Elizabeth's concern: Puritan 'prophesying'

Could encourage disobedience within Church hierarchy

Puritans who openly defied Elizabeth

John Penry and Job Throckmorton

Puritans who worked within Church structure

John Field, Walter Travers, Thomas Cartwright

Archbishop Parker's tenure dates

1559-1575

Parker's Book of Advertisements year & purpose

1566 - required clergy to wear prescribed vestments

Archbishop Grindal's approach to Puritans

More moderate, reluctant to aggressively persecute

When Elizabeth suspended Grindal's authority

1577

Archbishop Whitgift's tenure & approach

1583-1604, much more aggressive anti-Puritan policy

Act against Seditious Sectaries year & effect

1593 - made Puritanism an official offence

Puritans executed in 1593

John Greenwood and Harry Barrowe

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