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Question 1 (6 marks)
Describe the key features of Elizabeth I's Religious Settlement of 1559.
Mark scheme (AO1, 6 marks; 1 mark per developed point):
- Act of Supremacy: Elizabeth as Supreme Governor (not Head) of the Church
- Act of Uniformity: revised Book of Common Prayer compulsory
- Fines for non-attendance at church (recusancy)
- Protestant doctrine but retained some Catholic forms (vestments, hierarchy) — "via media"
- Designed to satisfy the moderate majority; avoid alienating extreme Catholics or Puritans
- 39 Articles (1563) — defined Church doctrine in Protestant terms
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