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Marian Reformation - Coggle Diagram
Marian Reformation
Mary's intentions/aims
- Undo changes since 1529
- Restore Papal Authority
- Restore Catholic practice
- Re-establish monasteries
- End clerical marriage
- Persecute those who did not conform - Radical Protestants either exiled or killed (could exile themselves, 800 did in early 1554)
- Marry and have a Catholic heir
First Steps
Mary was met with enthusiasm - bells and parliament opened with a sung Latin Mass.
Large turnout for her coronation.
23rd Aug, an altar and cross were set up at St. Nicholas Abbey in London
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Mary's Third Parliament
Nov 1554 – 2nd Act of Repeal – removed all legislation approved since 1529
Reversed the Act of Attainder passed on Pole
Married clergy would be deprived for their position and land -- over a ¼ in London were
Return of Cardinal Pole
Appointed Papal Legate to England by Julius III on Mary’s accession
Then made ABC
Furious debates about Pole and other councillors about church land
Compromise was reached – the statute of repeal would include a papal dispensation
Heresy Laws
Jan 1555 – Act of Repeal passed alongside with the reinstatement of the medieval heretic laws
Heretics – a person holding an opinion at odds with what is generally accepted -- in Mary’s case = Protestantism
The Burnings begin
289 Protestants (237 men and 52 women) burnt at the stake, inc. Cranmer, Hooper and Ridley
60 burnings in London, other main locations were in the South East
1st 2 victims:
John Rodgers and Rowland Taylor chosen as they were major preachers
Banned servants, apprentices and the young from attending services
Pole's Legatine Symbol
Had the right to summon both houses of the English Church
Bishops were to reside in their dioceses to preach and oversee the religious life of their parishes
Each cathedral should have a seminary attached for the training of new recruits to the priesthood
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