But, that tolerance of other religions quickly disappeared and took an extreme turn for the worst.
“For Mary the law of God was superior to the law of England; she would not punish those who worshipped the true religion merely because to do so was, for the moment, illegal” (Ridley, 47).
She didn’t stop people from celebrating Catholic festivities and instead, she would start arresting
Protestants who worshipped in public. This was a conflict that Mary had created for the sake of her religion, instead of allowing her subjects to worship whatever way they wanted to, she would persecute them. “If Mary picked up one bad habit from her Spanish husband, it was the practice of religious persecution. This was the era of the Spanish Inquisition and thanks in part to the
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She had become unpopular and unlucky. Her policy of burning heretics had turned the people, and even much of the clergy, against her (“Mary I First Tudor Queen”). The conflict of religions didn’t meet any compromise till her successor, Elizabeth I, came into the spotlight. “After Mary’s death, the coronation robes of England’s first queen were hastily refurbished – with a new bodice and sleeves – to fit its second” (Whitelock), with this, Elizabeth rebuilt the burned city and took major reforms, along with others, to make sure that another “Bloody Mary” wouldn’t take the crown. But, not all bad things came out of Mary’s rule, Mary had been the first women to rule over England and created a new rule that allowed women to lead England without having to have a man be the king. Some reforms made after her death was,
“a religious settlement, one that is still the basis for the Church of England today... The Act of Uniformity re-introduced the Book of Common Prayer, based largely on Edward VI’s version... This second
Parliament passed the Act for Assurance of the Queen’s Power, which meant that anyone working for