Stats: State of the Church (c. 1529)

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
How much did this % change by the 1530s	10%	50%
What % of income did this tax take?	10%	50%
What % of the 2 million population were clergymen?	2%	50%
What % of London testators left something to the church in the 1520s?	45%	50%
This book was immensely popular and he was reprinted how many times?	5	50%
And how many left money/gifts to the maintenance or service of their own local church?	60%	50%
What % of Lincoln testators left something to the church in the 1520s?	85%	50%
INVESTMENT	investment	50%
What was the annual tax that everyone (minus the King) paid?	Tithe	50%
Despite being a member of the clergy he was very critical of them. What year did he give a sermon at Convocation?	1512	0%
Name the years of the 3 different bequests to the Woodbridge church altar? (chronological order)	1522, 1525, 1533	0%
Name the year of his last reprinting	1526	0%
How many parishes did he visit in Kent?	260	0%
How many sub-par/corrupt monastic houses did he dissolve?	29	0%
How many fraternities and guilds were there in the 1520s?	30,000	0%
How much was spent on '... Spire'	£305	0%
Wills that survived to the modern day period (2500) were reviewed by historians. What % of testators left something to the church?	70-80%	0%
How many parishes?	9000	0%
What corruption was he guilty of? (name both)	Absenteeism, Pluralism	0%
Despite being very poor who bequeathed 10p to various 'stores'?	Alice Obloye	0%
ANTI-CLERICALISM + LITERATURE (also links to corruption)	anti-clericalism	0%
What did Henry VIII often do, regarding the higher clergy, that the Pope should've done	Appoint his own bishops, archbishops	0%
Which parish put on a play to pay for a new image of St George and when did they do it?	Bassingbourne, 1520	0%
What action was performed for 3 days alongside celebrations for rogation week? (Long Melford)	Beating the Bounds	0%
BEHAVIOUR OF THE HIGHER CLERGY	behaviour of the higher clergy	0%
BEHAVIOUR OF THE LOWER CLERGY	behaviour of the lower clergy	0%
Which type of monastic order did he demand reform from due to corruption?	Benedictine	0%
When and where did parishioners reject their vicar during a visitation of a bishop's team?	Bridge, 1511	0%
What did he found?	Cardinal College	0%
Name a vow the clergymen were supposed to uphold? (name one)	Celibacy, Poverty	0%
Who wrote the ... tales, a literary attack on the clergy detailing their corruption?	Chaucer, Canterbury	0%
What did they do? (name one)	Communal prayer, Public works (eg. road repair), Church maintenance	0%
Name another action people did in celebration for religious festivities (Sam Barstow)	Creep to the cross	0%
Who melted down their wedding ring to put on St Sidwell's foot in Morebath?	Eleanor Nicholls	0%
What was a key theme in this book apart from anti-clericalism?	Erastianism	0%
Despite accusations of corruption being thrust at members of the English church, Italy and Germany was arguably more corrupt in practice. Why?	European renaissance altering religious attitudes	0%
Name one that he closed?	Felixstowe	0%
Bishop ... of ... was deemed as corrupt	Fitzjames, London	0%
His actions were often deemed as ineffective or lacking in substance leading to arguments with other clergymen such as ... in ...?	Foxe, 1511	0%
Wolsey was accused of being too interested in material wealth and being a show-off, what was the name of his luxurious residence?	Hampton Court	0%
Not everyone was happy to pay though and some disputed the amount they had to give to the church such as ... (person) in ... (year)?	Henry Tankerd, 1511	0%
Despite his heavy criticism of corruption within the clergy, More was firmly Catholic and a staunch believer of orthodoxy. How can this be proved?	His attack on Luther - calling him an 'ape' and 'drunkard'	0%
There is little specific record/evidence of corruption within the lower clergy however with the wealth of the church and certain clergymen it seemed ironic they had taken a vow of poverty. What are some examples of ways the church could seem corrupt financially?	Indulgences, mass fees, mortuary fees, donations to a church to earn credit in Christ's eyes	0%
Name the quote from the Tales regarding the monetary desires of the clergy?	'I preach of nothing but greed'	0%
Which school did he re-open and invest in?	Ipswich School	0%
Who left bequests towards a 34 panel rood screen?	John and Agnes Albrede	0%
What did Richard Gooding pay for in the Woodbridge Church?	Large porch	0%
LAY BEHAVIOURS	lay behaviours	0%
This led to accusations of him being a ...?	Lollard	0%
Example of community investment into church '... Spire'	Louth	0%
Evidence?	Luther - a critic of the church and it's corruption, becoming so popular	0%
What did he do at St Paul's Cross in 1521?	Lutheran Book Burning	0%
Key roles? (name one)	Maintaining Papal relations, running the church, administrating the country as a whole	0%
Name one of the corruption's he accused the clergy of being guilty of.	Material greed, Carnal pleasures, Pluralism, Absenteeism	0%
Name another fee which significantly contributed to the church's wealth?	Mortuary (paid for upon an individuals death to finance the burial and to help them get to the afterlife), Sacramental (paid for when a sacrament is performed), Mass (paid for to have prayers said for the dead or living)	0%
Most devoted area to the church?	North	0%
What did More say about priests?	'Now runneth every rascal'	0%
Which university did he invest in?	Oxford	0%
Yearly payment to Rome?	Peter's Pence	0%
What did he describe the clergy as being?	'ravenous wolves in sheep's clothing'	0%
Name a high profile case linking to one of these fees?	Richard Hunne	0%
In Kennington ... ... (who) heckled a preacher and ... ... ... (did what)?	Richard Ricard, attacked a vicar	0%
In his 1511 visitation, the Kent Bishop found ... ... (who) in ... (where) refusing to pay his tithes? - 'he is evil disposed towards the church'	Robert Trussel, Wichling	0%
Name the priest of Long Melford, an area which held many hearty celebrations during times of religious festivities?	Roger Martyn	0%
How many clergymen?	Roughly 30,000	0%
Who wrote ... of the beggars?	Simon Fish, Supplication	0%
Where was the majority of anti-clericalism present?	South, specifically London	0%
Why was this the case?	Spread of Lutheran + Renaissance ideas through European merchants	0%
John Colet, a renaissance humanist was a dean where?	St Paul's Cathedral	0%
Why was the English church one of the best regulated?	Strong support from the Crown (one of Europe's most effective governments)	0%
Why did they do this? (either reason) - this also links to corruption of lower clergy	The vicar did not provide service and did not find pay a substitute to do so either, he denied sacraments to anyone who offended him	0%
Who was Archbishop of York?	Thomas Wolsey	0%
Who was Archbishop of Canterbury?	William Warham	0%
Where did he hold positions? (name one)	York, Durham, France	0%

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