The History of the Church of England

After mary's death, elizabeth issued a proclamation which required certain prayers and other parts of the standard church service to be conducted in english. That itself was a clear break from mary's insistence on the traditional latin service. For those reasons, it seemed pretty clear that el Elizabeth wasn't going to maintain mary's catholic policies. To do so would bring into question her own legitimacy as queen. So she looked for a compromise solution whereby protestantism could be reintroduced without offending catholics. The elizabethan settlement did what it was intended to do, it returned protestantism to england without offending most catholics. It was a delicate balance that worked for a