Henry VIII - religious settlement

First act of ANNATES

1532 - banned payments from the church to Rome

Act in Restraint of appeals to Rome

1533- king was now head of the church/ Rome had no influence over England

Second act of ANNATEs

1534 - Confirmed the first act

• Henry was now to appoint new abbots and bishops

Act of first fruits and tenths

1534 - taxes from clergy were now sent to the crown instead of the pope

• made an annual amount of 14,000 pounds

Act of supremacy

1534 - recognised Henry as head of the church

• cut all contact with Rome

Treason act

1534 - made it high treason to denounce Henry as head of the church and his act of supremacy

Throughout his reign Henry VIII executed 72,000 many of which were under this act

Act of succession

1534 - people were orderd to accsept henry marriage to Anne Boleyn

• made Mary an illegitimate heir

Act of the desolation of the lesser monasteries

1536 - the act ordered the closure of monastic houses worth less than 200 pounds

Consaquence - Lincolnshire uprising and pilgrimage of grace

Act of ten articles

1536 - written by Thomas Cranmer

• Ten articles promoting Protestant ideas but still had some elements of Catholicism

• Justification of faith alone but also argued for Christ as being present in the Eucharist service

Act of six articles

1539 - six articles were a doctrine about Henry’s religious settlement, more catholic They included

• catholic doctorine on transubstatiation

• Priests must remain celibate

Act of the dissolution of greater monasteries

1539 - alloud the disolution of larger monasteries and religious houses

• Henry made 1.3 million from this

Kings book (Henry VIIIs book)

1543

defined the doctrine of the Church of England after Henry's break with Rome.

The book asserted the presence of seven sacraments, a position that was a reaction towards Catholic doctrine.