History A-Level
The Elizabethan religious settlement as compromise
What The Elizabethan religious settlement as compromise means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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The settlement of 1559 combined the Act of Uniformity and the Royal Injunctions to create a via media, deliberately ambiguous between Catholic and Protestant practice.
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