religion and religious policy 1603-40

what was the book of martyrs

book by John Fox 1563 - most read book in England after the Bible, spread hatred of Catholics

what was the Spanish Armada

1588 - part of war with Spain, victory against Catholics

what was the Gunpowder Plot

1605 - Plot by Catholics to blow up KJ

what was the 30 YW

a war across Europe between Catholics and protestants that Charles joined on the side of the Catholics

what was the Spanish Match

1623 - Buckingham and Charles tried to find a wife there with a catholic princess but ends badly leading England into war with Spain

what were recusancy fines

1603 - CofE Sunday services compulsory, fined if didn’t go

what was the Oath of Allegiance

result of GPP, forced Catholic recusants to swear loyalty to James not Pope

what is predestination

believing that God has already foretold where people already decided if people are going to heaven or hell

what was the Millenary Petition

1603 - group of Puritans stopped James on journey to accept English throne and gave him a list of puritan demands like removing the sign of the cross from churches

what was the Hampton Court Conference

1604 - led to the translation of the Bible into English (the King James Bible) completed 1611

who was Bancroft and what happened with him in 1604

he became ABoC and he hated Puritans so he became extra strict on them through the Bancroft Canons

how did Charles show his anti-Calvinist values in 1624

supported supported Arminian Richard Montagu’s anti-Calvinist book A New Gag for an Old Goose that was hated by P

what did Montagu get promoted to in 1625

Royal chaplin which pissed of P

what was the York House Conference

1626 - held by Buckingham to discuss religious policy, Charles did not attend, Buckingham supported Charles, mainly Laud v. Puritan Earl of Warwick

when was Laud appointed ABoC

1633

what did laud rewrite in 1633

the Book of Sports

what we’re the differences in the 1633 and 1618 Book of Sports

new one allowed a range of activities to be done on sunday when the old on said that was only for church

what we’re the Feoffees of Impropriations and what happened to them in 1633

an organisation of puritans that raised money for Puritan leaders that Laud banned

what we’re Laud’s visitations

offical visits by bishops to parishes to make sure everyone was conforming to laudian reforms

what were the Church Laws

1640 - passed to codify Laud’s measures

what was the response to the Church Laws

large puritan backlash in England and Scotland leading to the undermining of both Charles and Lauds’ authority

what was the St Gregory’s case

1633 - St Gregory’s church challenged new Laudian reforms like the moving and decoration of the alter tables, the parishioners were tested by the Privy Council

who is and what happened to John William

Bishop who was imprisoned in 1637 as a result of his anti alter criticism called “The Holy Table, Name and Thing”

who and what happened to Prynne, Burton, Bastwick

three puritans tried by the star chamber for their criticism of Church Policy, they were fined £5000 each and had their ears publicly chopped off, gaining sympathy from the public

who is and what happened to john Lilburne

1638 - popular puritan writer whipped and fined for printing unlicensed literature

what was the Act of Revocation

1625 - allowed C to take church away from the Scottish Elite to give to the Church, made c very unpopular with land owners

what was the Articles of Perth

1618 - article written by James that covered personal acts of religion that felt to puritans as very catholic

what was the public opinion on C’s scottish coronation

1633 - annoyed it took him 8 years and that he didn’t follow a traditional scottish coronation and made it a ceremony which was seen as very catholic

what was the result of Charles announcing he wanted to release a new prayer book

1633 - led to the scottish rebellion

when was the new Laudian prayer book released in scotland

1637