Question

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, Queen of Scots’s attempt to remove Elizabeth I as monarch
Mary, Queen of Scots’s attempt to remove Elizabeth I as monarch

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

Answer 1

Mary I’s attempt to restore Catholicism to England

Renard was warning that Mary I’s plan to repress Protestant “heretics” and restore Catholicism would be difficult because the English had deeply embraced the Anglican/Protestant reforms.