Electronic Resource
Cambridge
:
Cambridge University Press
The @historical journal
3 (1960), S. 1-16
ISSN:
0018-246X
Source:
Cambridge Journals Digital Archives
Topics:
History
Notes:
Elizabeth made the decision that the English Church should again be Protestant, but the particular form of Protestantism to be adopted by the Church was not entirely in the power of the Queen, or even the Bishops to decide. A result of the dissolution of the monasteries and the sale of a large part of monastic lands by the Crown was that a greatly increased amount of patronage became vested in lay hands. The Church's theological inclination could be determined by the type of men presented by lay patrons to livings throughout the length and breadth of the country. One particular group amongst the Elizabethan nobility, the Earls of Leicester, Warwick, Huntingdon and Bedford, exercised a very remarkable influence upon the emergent Church of England. This study of the patronage of one member of the group, the third Earl of Huntingdon, illustrates how militant Protestantism could be injected into the Church.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X00022986
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