Simon Renard described the situation related to Mary I's attempt to restore Catholicism to England as difficult to repress. The passage highlights concerns about the potential backlash against efforts to change religious practices in a population that had deeply embraced Anglicanism, which was a result of previous religious turmoil in England.
Read the following passage written in 1553 by Simon Renard, the Holy Roman Empire’s ambassador to England, to answer the question. “It is easy to foresee that there will be difficulty in repressing the heretics without causing scandal . . . The thing most to be feared is that the Queen may be moved by her religious ardor and zeal to attempt to right matters at one stroke, for this cannot be done in the case of a people that has drunk so deep an error.” What situation did Holy Roman Empire ambassador Simon Renard describe as difficult to repress because of the English people’s experiences with the Anglican Church? (1 point) Responses Elizabeth I’s attempt to execute Mary, Queen of Scots Elizabeth I’s attempt to execute Mary, Queen of Scots Mary I’s attempt to restore Catholicism to England Mary I’s attempt to restore Catholicism to England Catherine of Aragon’s attempt to preserve her marriage to Henry VIII Catherine of Aragon’s attempt to preserve her marriage to Henry VIII Mary, Queen of Scots’s attempt to remove Elizabeth I as monarch Mary, Queen of Scots’s attempt to remove Elizabeth I as monarch
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