Religion

**QUEEN ELIZABETHS CHURCH SETTLEMEN**T

Queen Elizabeth’s policy of religion favored Pragmatism before all others when it came to dealing with three prime concerns. One being her legitimacy, technically she was illegitimate in the eyes of the Catholic and Protestant law. As a result of Elizabeth’s Protestant solution that did not offend the Catholic Church parliament of 1559 started to legislate for a church with a monarch and with many catholic products such as priestly vestments. The House of Commons strongly endorsed the proposals while the bill of supremacy opposed the House of Lords, mainly the bishops. At that time many bishoprics were vacant and supporters were easy to find among peers to outvote the bishops. In the end the Act of Supremacy became a law on May 8th, 1559. The law forced all public officials to swear an oath of devotion to the monarch