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The Elizabethan Religious Settlement is the name given to the religious and political arrangements made for England during the reign of Elizabeth I (1558–1603). The settlement, implemented from 1559 to 1563, marked the end of the English Reformation .
St Paul's Cathedral, London, view as in 1540. The Convocation of 1563 was a significant gathering of English and Welsh clerics that consolidated the Elizabethan religious settlement, and brought the Thirty-Nine Articles close to their final form (which dates from 1571).
Collectively referred to as the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, the former confirmed the break from Rome and the latter more Protestant practices for the Church of England. A committee was established to guarantee the Queen's financial stability.
Prayer Book and People in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-45313-5. A thorough study of the Book of Common Prayer ' s role in English social religion during the late 16th and early 17th centuries; Swift, Daniel (2013).
Eamon Duffy in 2010. In the 16th century, Morebath was a Devon village of sheepherders with a "remote and poor" parish that served roughly 33 families of 150 people. Sir Christopher Trychay [note 1] was Morebath's vicar for 54 years, a period during which England had four monarchs and Morebath transitioned from a conservative Catholic community rebelling against the government-imposed English ...
The Westminster Conference of 1559 was a religious disputation held early in the reign of Elizabeth I of England. Although the proceedings themselves were perfunctory, the outcome shaped the Elizabethan religious settlement and resulted in the authorisation of the 1559 Book of Common Prayer .
This era, later named the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, would evolve into the Church of England. It was expected that Elizabeth would marry and produce an heir; however, despite numerous courtships, she never did. Because of this she is sometimes referred to as the "Virgin Queen". [2]
Their focus at first was mainly on evangelising the nobility and courtiers, which led them into involvement in seeking to end the religious persecution of the Church through a series of complex regime change plots and political entanglements, which were covertly opposed from London by Lord Burghley and Sir Francis Walsingham. The majority of ...