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  2. Elizabethan Religious Settlement - Wikipedia

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    To enforce her religious policies, Queen Elizabeth needed bishops willing to cooperate. Seven bishops, including Cardinal Pole, Mary's Archbishop of Canterbury, died in 1558 and needed to be replaced. The remaining bishops were all Catholics appointed during Mary's reign, and Elizabeth's advisers hoped they could be persuaded to continue serving.

  3. Book of Common Prayer (1559) - Wikipedia

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    The 1559 Book of Common Prayer, [note 1] also called the Elizabethan prayer book, is the third edition of the Book of Common Prayer and the text that served as an official liturgical book of the Church of England throughout the Elizabethan era. Elizabeth I became Queen of England in 1558 following the death of her Catholic half-sister Mary I.

  4. Black Rubric - Wikipedia

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    The "rubric" was omitted from the Elizabethan prayer-book of 1559, probably as part of the Queen's policy to retain the support of moderate traditionalists (she believed in the Real Presence without a definition of it; and, had she got her way, the celebration of the Prayer Book Communion would have looked like a Mass), [7] but possibly also on ...

  5. William Downham - Wikipedia

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    He married for a second time, probably around 1565. The marriage probably diminished his favour with the queen, who strongly preferred her clergy to remain single. [44] By his second wife he was father of Bishop George Downame, of the theologian John Downame, and of a daughter who became the first wife of Roger Bradshaw (1572-1625) of ...

  6. History of the Puritans under Elizabeth I - Wikipedia

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    The Church of England under Elizabeth was broadly Reformed in nature: Elizabeth's first Archbishop of Canterbury, Matthew Parker, had been the executor of Martin Bucer's will, and his replacement Edmund Grindal had carried the coffin at Bucer's funeral. While the Elizabethan settlement proved generally acceptable, there remained minorities who ...

  7. Thomas Bilson - Wikipedia

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    Here lies Thomas Bilson formerly bishop of Winchester and counsellor in sacred matters of his serene highness King James of Great Britain who when he had served God and the church for nineteen years in the bishopric laid aside mortality in certain hope of resurrection 18 June 1616 aged 69.

  8. Bishops' Bible - Wikipedia

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    In this edition, Queen Elizabeth I is flanked by allegorical virtues of Faith and Charity; Elizabeth therefore represents Hope. Beneath the portrait is a Latin text from Romans 1:16. The bishops deputed to revise the Apocrypha appear to have delivered very little, as the text in these books broadly reproduces that of the Great Bible.

  9. Act of Supremacy 1558 - Wikipedia

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    c. 1), sometimes referred to as the Act of Supremacy 1559, [a] is an act of the Parliament of England, which replaced the original Act of Supremacy 1534, and passed under the auspices of Elizabeth I. The 1534 act was issued by Elizabeth's father, Henry VIII, which arrogated ecclesiastical authority to the monarchy, but which had been repealed ...