If he didn’t change the religion for the best interest of England, we would have a higher crime rate and England would be destroyed. The Catholic Church went from being a place where you can find God, to a place where people are executed and go against the laws of God and humanity. Henry VIII said “The people look to you for light and you bring them darkness. Amend these crimes and set forth Gods word truly or else I, whom God has appointed his high minister, will see these divisions extinct and the enormities corrected”. The Catholic Church decided to start controlling everyone in England.
The pope refused because he did not want to upset Charles V. Henry VIII was furious. In 1529, he decided to take the matter into his own hands. He called parliament and asked the members to end the popes in England. Parliament approved it. It was known as the Reformation Parliament.
One of the minor ones were that you were allowed to get a divorce and one of the brutal ones were that Henry VIII Henry was born in 1491 in Greenwich Palace near London and died in 1547 and between those years Henry made some changes to the church. One of the changes he made were making divorces legal as the pope said no to his request to get a divorce with Catherine of Aragon. Another reason was that he wanted more money so he could got to war with France which was very expensive. He sent his people to close the monasteries down and collect all the money and he collected all the money from the Church of England (the church he founded). Henry also wanted more power because he wanted Europe to know that England is a powerful country and he wanted a son because he thought that men were more powerful than women.
This act of treason meant that anyone who disagreed with the break with Rome would be executed due to heresy. Therefore, it seems as though Henry did not fully accept the protestant beliefs, because he killed Tyndale for spreading them. And if the King could not fully accept the new Protestant religion, then how was the rest of England expected to? Therefore, this leads to the conclusion that Protestantism made only limited gains in England, due to the fact that it was not as accepted as Catholicism was. The idea shown in source 7 of Henry not being able to fully separate himself from his catholic beliefs is further back up by the evidence found in source 8.
This meant that he had to draft in Whig party members to fill the gaps, which then reduced the Tory presence in Cabinet. Then when Canning died Robison was unable to form a government as he lacked enough support from the Tory party. The result was that George IV then had to ask Wellington to form a government out of desperation. Wellington managed to get a government but lost support of the left wing of the Tory party over parliamentary reform. Huskisson and other ‘liberal’ Tories resigned and this really spelt the end of the Tory party.
In 1603 the war ended, and King James I issued a degree that all acts of piracy must be stopped. In November of 1558 Elizabeth became Queen, many thought she would restore the protestant faith to England. But ever since Mary’s (bloody Mary) persecution against Protestants the number of Protestants was spreading. She was catholic but grew up protestant and she was committed to that
In 1520, the Pope excommunicated with Martin Luther. Luther responded by burning the papal decree in front of his students. In 1521, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V put Luther on trial, and was declared as an outlaw. Luther went into exile, living at Wartburg Castle, home to Prince Frederick the Wise, of Saxony. Martin Luther’s message held great appeal for various groups, even those of whom had less than spiritual
He believed that the Catholic church was corrupt for selling indulgences as penance for sins in that the sale was a way for the Church to exploit the unfortunate and poor (Reformation 5). The final push for the need to change was the English reformation. During King Henry VIII’s rule in the sixteenth century, the Church of England was formed. He established the church because the Pope of the Catholic Church would not grant him a divorce from his wife, Catherine of Aragon. The Anglican church had many similarities to the Catholic church: similar rituals and a bible titled the Book of Common Prayere (Reformation 9).
French Neoclassicism The French Neo-classical era started in about 1550 and came to a close in 1715 with the death of Louis XIV (Howarth 220). “Neoclassicism emerged during turbulent times in France… Religious attacks between Catholics and Huguenots (i.e. Protestants) began, and continued intermittently for sixty years. Church plays were banned in 1548 by Henri II, most likely because of the huge religious uproar during this period. The ban on religious plays dealt a painful blow to French theatre, but its prohibition allowed secular theatre to develop” (Joyeuse).
The Catholic Church launched a Counter-Reformation to win back lost souls. Many sea captains, especially English and Dutch, were Protestant and they looked on piracy against the Spaniards as a religious crusade. Even before the Reformation, countries trespassed on Spain and Portugal’s monopoly, and France, which was always Catholic, defied the Pope’s ruling of 1493. England and France thought that is they kept to the north of Spanish lands they could not be doing anything wrong. Sebastian and John Cabot (brothers) made two voyages of exploration for England in 1497 and 1516, to the shores of Canada and Newfoundland, but no colonies were founded.