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| Puritan’s Millenary Petition |
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No singing in church
No organ
No transubstantiation
No holy days |
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| Hampton Court Conference, 1604 |
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Formal hearing of the Millenary Petition
James listened, but did not give in to their demands.
Does agree to allow for a new translation of the Bible. (King James Version) |
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40% of English population was Catholic and they wanted James to relax the anti-Catholic laws
Plot to execute James and restore Catholicism to England. Guy Fawkes and 12 other Catholics got together to try to blow up Parliament with 36 barrels of gunpowder to cause Catholic uprising. |
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| Charles I's changes to the Church of England |
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Communion tables
candles on communion tables
emphasis on ceremonies and sacraments ornate vestments
bow to the name of Jesus
and Henrietta Maria (wife)- children could be raised Catholic
Many people thought he was secretly Catholic |
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| Irish Catholic Rebellion of 1641 |
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| An uprise by Irish Catholics to retake their independence from the English which failed miserably. |
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| The Conditions under which Charles II returned to the throne |
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-Declaration of Breda, 1660
Prerogative Courts (king run courts) abolished
-Act of Indemnity, 1660
Stated that the king would pardon all who fought against Charles I except those who had taken part directly in the trial and execution
-Land Settlement- royalist and church lands that had been confiscated and sold off during the Civil Wars and Commonwealth were to be restored to their original owners
-The Church of England restored
-Charles II could only use money given to him by Parliament (1.2 Million pounds/ years) |
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| Clarendon Code (Religious Settlement) |
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-Corporation Act, 1661
Stipulated that all municipal office holders had to take communion in the Church of England
-Act of Uniformity, 1662
Issuing of new book of common prayer
Only service book used
-Conventicle Act, 1664
Outlawed any unauthorized meeting for worship
Fines or imprisonment
-Five Mile Act, 1665
Prohibited ministers from coming within 5 miles of the parish they left (resigned) when the Act of Uniformity was passed in 1662 |
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| King's power after Religious Settlement |
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Call and dissolve parliament at will
Veto legislation
Not obliged to account for how much he spent or how he spent it
Responsible for foreign policies
Head of the military
Could choose his own advisors |
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| Parliament's power after Religious Settlement |
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Impeach royal advisors
Right to tax and the king recognized his money came from parliament
-Triennial Act, 1664
There could be no more than a 3 year gap between parliament and the king meeting |
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-Had been signed in 1670 but made public in 1678
-Charles II promised to assist Catholic monarch Louis XIV in his war against the protestant Dutch and convert England to Catholicism
-Louis gave Charles an annual pension of £250,000
-The war failed |
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| Titus Oates claimed the Pope had ordered Jesuits to overthrow government, murder the king, and place his Catholic brother of the throne. This was fake, Titus arrested and 80 Catholics killed |
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| Parliament tried to convince Charles to exclude James from the line of succession. Parliament was scared of James taking the throne because he was Catholic. Charles decided to end Parliament in 1681 to avoid making a decision on the matter. He died in 1685 without solving it, so James inherited the throne |
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| did not want to uphold the line of succession (no James) |
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| wanted to uphold the line of succession (wanted James to take throne) |
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| How did James II upset Parliament and the general English population? |
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1686: He resurrected the Court of Ecclesiastical Commission- which allowed him to suspend Anglican ministers and replace them with members who had Catholic tendencies
Three Anglican seminaries at Oxford placed under Catholic control- so that the next generation of ministers would be Catholic
1687: Appointed 500 justices of the peace- 60% were Catholic- which was a violation of the Test Act
Suspended the Test Act: all people holding offices had to make a public declaration against transubstantiation and publically take communion in the Church of England- James suspended this so that Catholics could hold office
Declaration of Indulgence: freedom of worship for Catholic and Protestant Nonconformists/Dissenters as well as freedom to hold political and military office |
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| Coronation Oath Act 1689 (Religious Settlement) |
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Allowed Parliament to create laws, not just the monarch
Monarch had to swear to govern the people of England according to rules set by Parliament
Had to be Protestant |
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| Bill of Rights 1689 (Religious Settlement) |
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No Catholics to inherit English throne
Limited Monarchy- the monarch was not above the law
Free speech in Parliament
No cruel and unusual punishment
The monarch could not spend money that Parliament did not approve |
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| Toleration Act 1689 (Religious Settlement) |
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| Granted the right of public worship to everyone but Catholics, they just could not hold office if they were not Anglican |
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| Triennial Act 1694 (Religious Settlement) |
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| Parliament would meet every 3 years and a new Parliament would be elected every 3 years |
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| Act of Settlement 1701 (Religious Settlement) |
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| Allowed the House of Hanover to take the throne if William III or Anne I died without an heir |
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