Oxford Cambridge and RSA - 2025
Friday 6 June 2025 – Afternoon
A Level History A
Y106/01 England 1485–1558: the Early Tudors
Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes
(Verified Question Paper With Mark
Scheme Combined June 2025)
, INSTRUCTIONS
• Use black ink.
• Write your answer to each question in the Answer Booklet. The question
numbers must be clearly shown.
• Fill in the boxes on the front of the Answer Booklet.
• Answer Question 1 in Section A. Answer either Question 2 or Question 3 in
Section B.
INFORMATION
• The total mark for this paper is 50.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets [ ].
• Quality of extended response will be assessed in questions marked with an
asterisk (*).
• This document has 4 pages.
ADVICE
• Read each question carefully before you start your answer.
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Section A
Mid Tudor Crises 1547–1558
Study the four sources and answer Question 1.
1 ‘There was widespread opposition to the religious changes under Edward VI.’
Use the four sources in their historical context to assess how far they support this
view. [30]
Source A: A contemporary Catholic chronicle describes reactions to the religious changes in
the first year of Edward VI’s reign.
The 5th of September 1547 began the king’s visitation at St Paul’s, and all the images
were pulled down; and the 9th day of the same month the said visitation was at St
Bride’s, and after that in various other parish churches; and so all images pulled down
through all England at that time, and all churches new white-limed, with the
commandments on the walls.
Adapted from the Chronicle of Grey Friars of London.
Source B: The religious demands of the Western rebels in response to the introduction of the
1549 Prayer Book.
Item, we will have the Laws of our Sovereign Lord King Henry VIII concerning the Six
Articles, to be in use again, as they were during his reign.
Item, we will have the mass in Latin, as it was before, and celebrated by the priest without
any man or woman communicating with him.
Item, we will have holy bread and holy water every Sunday, palms and ashes at the
accustomed time, Images set up again in every church.
Item, we will not receive the new service because it is like a Christmas game, but will have
our old service of Matins, mass, Evensong and procession in Latin.
The demands of the Western rebels, 1549 (selected).
Source C: Parliament issues an Act condemning Catholic service books and images.
The king has issued through Parliament a uniform, quiet and godly order of service
called the Book of Common Prayer, which contains nothing but the pure word of God.
However, alongside it are still practised corrupt, untrue and superstitious ceremonies,
which allow some to attack the order and meaning of the Prayer Book and encourage
great diversity of opinion. Therefore, it is ordered that all
books used for the old mass be abolished, and any images of stone, timber or marble be
defaced and destroyed.
An Act for the abolition and putting away of images and various books, 1549.
© OCR Y106/01
2025 Jun25
Friday 6 June 2025 – Afternoon
A Level History A
Y106/01 England 1485–1558: the Early Tudors
Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes
(Verified Question Paper With Mark
Scheme Combined June 2025)
, INSTRUCTIONS
• Use black ink.
• Write your answer to each question in the Answer Booklet. The question
numbers must be clearly shown.
• Fill in the boxes on the front of the Answer Booklet.
• Answer Question 1 in Section A. Answer either Question 2 or Question 3 in
Section B.
INFORMATION
• The total mark for this paper is 50.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets [ ].
• Quality of extended response will be assessed in questions marked with an
asterisk (*).
• This document has 4 pages.
ADVICE
• Read each question carefully before you start your answer.
© OCR 2025
OCR is an exempt
[R/506/4255] DC (ST)
Charity Turn over
358891
, 2
Section A
Mid Tudor Crises 1547–1558
Study the four sources and answer Question 1.
1 ‘There was widespread opposition to the religious changes under Edward VI.’
Use the four sources in their historical context to assess how far they support this
view. [30]
Source A: A contemporary Catholic chronicle describes reactions to the religious changes in
the first year of Edward VI’s reign.
The 5th of September 1547 began the king’s visitation at St Paul’s, and all the images
were pulled down; and the 9th day of the same month the said visitation was at St
Bride’s, and after that in various other parish churches; and so all images pulled down
through all England at that time, and all churches new white-limed, with the
commandments on the walls.
Adapted from the Chronicle of Grey Friars of London.
Source B: The religious demands of the Western rebels in response to the introduction of the
1549 Prayer Book.
Item, we will have the Laws of our Sovereign Lord King Henry VIII concerning the Six
Articles, to be in use again, as they were during his reign.
Item, we will have the mass in Latin, as it was before, and celebrated by the priest without
any man or woman communicating with him.
Item, we will have holy bread and holy water every Sunday, palms and ashes at the
accustomed time, Images set up again in every church.
Item, we will not receive the new service because it is like a Christmas game, but will have
our old service of Matins, mass, Evensong and procession in Latin.
The demands of the Western rebels, 1549 (selected).
Source C: Parliament issues an Act condemning Catholic service books and images.
The king has issued through Parliament a uniform, quiet and godly order of service
called the Book of Common Prayer, which contains nothing but the pure word of God.
However, alongside it are still practised corrupt, untrue and superstitious ceremonies,
which allow some to attack the order and meaning of the Prayer Book and encourage
great diversity of opinion. Therefore, it is ordered that all
books used for the old mass be abolished, and any images of stone, timber or marble be
defaced and destroyed.
An Act for the abolition and putting away of images and various books, 1549.
© OCR Y106/01
2025 Jun25
