Henry VIII, born in 1491, was the second son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. ... With the help of his new secretary, Thomas Crownell, Henry achieved to obtain the divorce and to select bishops and archbishops in England by himself alone. ... Nevertheless, it was her daughter Elizabeth who years later ascended the throne and kept the reformation in England. ...
By these acts Henry gained the power to appoint his own bishops. ... She gave birth not to a son but to a daughter, Elizabeth. A few years after the birth of Elizabeth, Anne was beheaded for suspected treason, incest, and adultery. ... When he died in 1547 he was succeeded, as he had hoped, by a son, but it was his daughter Elizabeth I who ruled over one of the greatest periods in England's history. ...
"A religious reform movement in the late 16th and 17th centuries that sought to "purify" the Church of England of remnants of the Roman Catholic "popery" that the Puritans claimed had been retained after the religious settlement reached early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I." ... (http://www.dictionary.com) Authorities such as of Bishops, priests, and the rest of the clergy were also rejected to represent spiritual affairs between man and God. ...
In Doc 5, Elizabeth Einstein states that even though the church accepted the invention of the printing press, it caused their own demise. ... An additional document that would help was maybe a letter from a bishop controlling an area of discontent with the church asking the pope how to solve the problem. ...
He appoints his own bishops that will show loyalty to the crown and not the Pope. ... Henry immediately has one of his bishops divorce Henry and Catherine and nullify their relationship. ... Of Henry's children however, was to be Elizabeth, the future Queen of England. ...
Elizabeth I was next in line to make an attempt at settling the controversies that had formed in England. ... Upon Elizabeth's death, James I came to the throne and would have nothing to do with the even more assertive Puritans, so he would have their more vocal leaders put away. ... The separatists set up a religion where each congregation constituted an independent church with no need of bishops (Williams p.97). ...
