Mary I - religious settlement

Act of repeal

1553

• act wiped out all of Edward’s religious reforms

• Re-enstates mass, ritual worship, clerical celibacy

• Returns to the act of six articles of 1547

When did Mary relinquish the title of supreme head of the English church

5th December 1553

• Done under parliament

• However refused to repeal the act of supremacy

Royal injunctions

ordered to:

• bishops to suppress heresy

• Removed married clergy (e.g archbishop of York)

• Restored holy days/ processions and ceremonies

Restoration of the heresy laws

January 1555

• resulted in the burning of heretics/ Protestant officials (Cranmer)

• However parliament only agreed when promised former monastic lands wouldn’t be confiscated

• Treason to have banned books/ speak out against catholism

Second act of repeal

1554

• undid all anti-papal legislation since 1529

Publication of Bishops Bonner’s book of Homilies

1555

• written by Edmund bonner, issues a Roman Catholic set of homilies to counter the teaching of the first book under Edward

The synod 12 decrees

1556

• 12 decrees on clerical discipline against abuses such as pluralism, heresy, absenteeism and simony