Religion

Henry VII

Henry VII

  • Financial methods/ legal

    • Dec 1530 - Clergy accused of praemunire, pardoned Jan 1531 for a £119,000 fine.

    • Jan 1534 - Act to stop Peter’s pence

    • Dec 1534 - Act of first fruits and tenths (re-directed taxes to crown)

    • Financial Courts

      • 1535 - Court of Augmentations

        • handled the properties + money brought in by the dissolution of the monasteries

      • 1540 - Court of First Fruits and tenths

        • Collected clerical taxes that would have been sent to Rome

    • Dissolution of the Monasteries:

      • 1535 Valor Ecclesiasticus

      • 1536 Act of dissolution of smaller monasteries (under £200/yr)

        • money re-directed to larger monasteries

      • Total gained - £1,300,000 (much sold off to nobles at a loss)

        • Total cost of wars estimated £3,545,000

  • Great Matter/Succession

    • Oath of succession

  • Royal Supremacy

    • May 1532 - Submission of the Clergy (thomas More resigns next day as lord chancellor)

    • 1533 - Act in restraint of appeals

      • based on the collectanea satis copiosa (written by Cranmer)

    • Dec 1534 - Treason Act

      • treason by speech/suggestion of the crown’s illegitimacy

    • Executions

      • 1534 - Elizabeth Barton (opposed reformation + prophesied that Henry would go to hell if he married Anne)

      • 1535 - Thomas More + John Fisher (refused to take the oath of succession)

      • 1538 - John Lambert (denied transubstantiation)

  • Doctrinal changes/motivations

    • Catholic

      • 1538 Execution of John Lambert

      • 1539 - Act of Six Articles

        • Upheld transubstantiation

        • Private masses

      • 1543 - Act for the advancement of true religion

        • limited access to the vernacular bible only to the wealthy

      • 1543 - The King’s Book

        • reaffirmed transubstantiation

    • Protestant

      • 1526 - William Tyndale’s vernacular bible published in Germany + smuggled into England

      • 1538 - Royal Injunctions - english bible HAD to be in every church within 2 yrs

      • Cromwell paid £200 of his own money to print english bibles

      • 1539 - Great bible published

        • first royally commissioned bible published in ENGLISH

      • 1544 - Act of litany - optional english

    • Henry VIII

      • 1539 - Act of six articles

      • 1538 - royal proclamations

      • 1543 - king’s book

      • 1538 - executions