The Catholic challenge at home (Edexcel GCSE History): Flashcards

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Counter-Reformation definition

Catholic Church's campaign to reverse Protestant Reformation

Year Pope instructed English Catholics to avoid CoE services

1566

Pope's 1566 instruction to English Catholics

Do not attend Church of England services

Heresy in Counter-Reformation context

Denial of Catholic Church teachings

Catholic recusants meaning

Those who practised Catholicism in secret

Proportion of English nobility remaining Catholic

About one-third

Regions with concentrated Catholic opposition

Northern and northwestern England

Notable Catholic noble families

Nevilles and Percys

Elizabeth's Protestant favourites at court

William Cecil and Robert Dudley

Why Elizabeth tolerated Catholic recusants initially

Feared creating martyrs and sparking rebellion

Year Protestant Reformation began

1517

Year of Act of Supremacy

1534

What Act of Supremacy established

Monarch, not Pope, as head of English Church

Year Elizabeth's religious settlement established

1559

Revolt of the Northern Earls date

1569-70

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