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⛪ Elizabeth I's Religious Settlement – A-level
History · A-level — the 1559 settlement, Puritan and Catholic challenges and Elizabeth's management of religion
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Questions
Under the 1559 Act of Supremacy, which title did Elizabeth I take as the head of the Church of England?
Defender of the Faith
Head of the Faithful
Supreme Head
Supreme Governor
20s
Which pope issued the bull Regnans in Excelsis, excommunicating Elizabeth I in 1570?
Gregory XIII
Pius V
Paul IV
Sixtus V
20s
What penalty did the 1559 Act of Uniformity set for missing Sunday church services without good reason?
A fine of £20 per month
A fine of 12d for each absence
Imprisonment for one year
A fine of £100 per year
20s
The 1559 Book of Common Prayer was based mainly on which earlier service book?
The 1549 Book of Common Prayer
The King's Book of 1543
The Latin Sarum Rite
The 1552 Book of Common Prayer
30s
Which group in the House of Lords voted against the 1559 Act of Uniformity without a single exception?
The Privy Councillors
The northern earls
The newly created peers
The bishops
30s
Archbishop Parker's Advertisements of 1566 caused controversy mainly by enforcing what?
The suppression of prophesyings
The wearing of the surplice by clergy
Subscription to the Thirty-Nine Articles
Fines for Catholic recusants
30s
Which two priests led the first Jesuit mission to England in 1580?
Edmund Campion and Robert Persons
Robert Southwell and Henry Garnet
William Allen and Nicholas Sander
Cuthbert Mayne and John Payne
30s
Why was Archbishop Edmund Grindal suspended from his duties in 1577?
He refused to suppress the prophesyings
He refused to enforce clerical vestments
He refused to prosecute Catholic recusants
He opposed the execution of Catholic priests
30s
What did John Field and Thomas Wilcox demand in their 1572 Admonition to Parliament?
Restoring the title of Supreme Head
Allowing clergy to marry legally
Harsher fines for Catholic recusants
Replacing bishops with a Presbyterian system
30s
Which 1585 statute gave the legal basis for trying Mary, Queen of Scots, after the Babington Plot?
The Act of Uniformity
The Act against Jesuits and Seminary Priests
The Treasons Act
The Act for the Queen's Safety
30s