Elizabeth’s actions Catholic threat (recusants) Puritan threat
1559 Religious settlement established the moderate Matthew Parker William Cecil and Dudley
moderately Protestant religious doctrine for is appointed as view the settlement a
England Archbishop of Canterbury starting point for a new
Protestant church
act of supremacy restored royal supremacy leading to Puritanism
as Supreme Governor with no more than
2000 parish priests refusing
act of uniformity included returning to the
1552 book of Common Prayer with more
relaxed wording over Eucharist removing
Black Rubric
royal injunctions laid out church services
attacking “superstitious” Catholic
practices like Pilgrimages and all parishes
required an English Bible
1563 39 articles enforce the settlement the Convocation of
Canterbury does not
turn the CofE more
Protestant encouraging
Puritanism
1560s vestiarian
controversy sparked by
the refusal to wear the
required robes as
Catholic and
‘superstitious’
in response Archbishop
Parker and 5 other
bishops issue
‘advertisements’ and 37
clergy who refuse to
sign are removed from
church
1568 Catholic seminary
established in Douia but
due to location across the
channel most priests were
located in the SE where
Catholicism had the least
support not the more
Catholic north
1559 Religious settlement established the moderate Matthew Parker William Cecil and Dudley
moderately Protestant religious doctrine for is appointed as view the settlement a
England Archbishop of Canterbury starting point for a new
Protestant church
act of supremacy restored royal supremacy leading to Puritanism
as Supreme Governor with no more than
2000 parish priests refusing
act of uniformity included returning to the
1552 book of Common Prayer with more
relaxed wording over Eucharist removing
Black Rubric
royal injunctions laid out church services
attacking “superstitious” Catholic
practices like Pilgrimages and all parishes
required an English Bible
1563 39 articles enforce the settlement the Convocation of
Canterbury does not
turn the CofE more
Protestant encouraging
Puritanism
1560s vestiarian
controversy sparked by
the refusal to wear the
required robes as
Catholic and
‘superstitious’
in response Archbishop
Parker and 5 other
bishops issue
‘advertisements’ and 37
clergy who refuse to
sign are removed from
church
1568 Catholic seminary
established in Douia but
due to location across the
channel most priests were
located in the SE where
Catholicism had the least
support not the more
Catholic north
