During the 1500s in England the Catholic Church and Royalty were very powerful. The Catholic Church was excommunicating people and had an increased interested in money. They were selling certificates that are in a more simpler sense get out of sin cards that “forgave” your sins but at a price they called them indulgences, they also sold relics which people purchased to please God. The relationship between the people and the church became based off money. Priest were seen as a person's “ Passport to heaven.” Which lead people to believe a happy priest is essential to going to heaven. After the Church refused to annul King Henry VII marriage with his first wife England began to drift from the church.
Queen Mary I was born February 18, 1516 and she was later baptized Catholic by her parents King Henry VII and Catherine of Aragon. Henry wanted a son and so he tried to annul his marriage with Catherine. During this time Mary was sent to the border of Whales while Henry was getting married to Anne Boleyn. Anne did not want want to be tested to the throne so pressed for an act of Parliament to consider Mary illegitimate. This placed the princess in session for the throne. Jane Seymour, Henry's third wife, wanted him to make amends with his daughters. So Mary reentered into the royal court but her religion stirred up a lot …show more content…
Later she married King Philip of Spain. Mary immediately began to throw out her father's religious edicts and replaced them with her own. Which produced the strict heresy law. The heresy law was not accepting the catholic or christian faith. The strictness of the hershey law produced over 300 burnings of protestants. These religious persecutions earned her the name “Bloody” Mary and she became extremely unpopular. Mary says “I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will,” which in a modern way means that i will govern for the general happiness not for what everybody