Elizabethans: Catholics - Elizabeth's Laws

What is the name given to a person who is prepared to die for their religious beliefs?

• A martyr

• A priest

• A recusant

• A conformer

Which Act stated that all worship had to be the same and that everyone had to attend a church service each week?

• Act of Uniformity

• Act of Supremacy

Which Act recognised that Elizabeth was the head of the Church and not the Pope?

• Act of Uniformity

• Act of Supremacy

True or false? Many English Catholics had dropped their old faith by the 1570s.

• True

• False

What was the name given to Catholics who refused to go to Church?

• Plotters

• Conformists

• Recusants

• Church papists

What was the name given to those who chose to completely drop their Catholic faith and become Protestants?

• Conformers

• Church papists

• Plotters

• Recusants

What was the name of the Act passed in 1581 to deal with the problem of the increasing number of Catholics refusing to attend church?

• Act of Persuasions

• Act against Priests

• Recusancy Act

• Act Restraining Recusants

What did the Act Against Priests of 1585 do?

• Allowed the death penalty for anyone accused of sheltering a Catholic priest

• Increased fines for recusants

• Punished Catholic priests by putting them to death

• Prevented Catholic priests from entering England

What did the Recusancy Act of 1587 do?

• Published a list of recusants

• Increased fines for recusants

• Required all Catholics over the age of 16 to stay within 5 miles of their homes

• Allowed the government to take two thirds of the land owned by a recusant who had fallen behind with fines

What did the 1593 Act Restraining Recusants do?

• Prevented any Catholic over the age of 16 from travelling outside a 5 mile radius of their homes and prevented Catholics holding large gatherings

• Increased the fines further

• Prevented Catholics from going outside