RELIGION - turning points (James I)

1604 -

Hampton Court Conference , January 1604

Set the direction for the future of the Church of England

Preparation of the authorised King James version of the bible (1611)

‘No bishop no King’

1604

Treaty of London, April 1604

James I ends the Anglo Spanish War

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Marked a shift from conflict between Catholic Spain and Protestant England - James wanted to be a peacemaker (rex pacificus)

1604

Richard Bancroft becomes Archbishop of Canterbury, December 1604

• enforced rules contained in Anglican prayer book

• opposition to Puritanism

• defence of hierarchy in the Church

1605 (boom!)

The Gunpowder Plot

Failed attempt to assassinate James I during the opening of Parliament in 1605

Aims? Kill Protestant king and establish catholic rule in England

Significance ?

Intensified Protestant suspicions of Catholics and led to the rigorous enforce of the recusancy law

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1611

King James I Bible

significant political vehicle which enforced the king’s authority

1611

Abbott raised to the position of Archbishop of Canterbury

• introduces a more moderate approach to Puritan concerns within the Church

• Abbott had no objection to the widespread objection to the practice of lay impropriation.