Visitations
What Visitations means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Visitations
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Reference: AQA
Inspections by Protestant commissioners used to enforce royal injunctions and consolidate the Settlement, resulting in the removal of Marian clergy who refused the Oath of Supremacy.
Topics that use Visitations
Related terms
- Catholic party
- Church Papists
- Condition of the Settlement
- End of consensus
- parliamentary opposition
- Radicalism vs. moderation
- Religious conflict and compromise
- Rising of the Northern Earls
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