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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 2331124, member: 12789&quot;]<b>Henry VIII</b> - well he went schismatic and declared himself head of the Church of England.&nbsp; Persecuted all and anything in his way.</p><p><b>Edward VI</b> didn&#039;t really rule long enough, never was in majority age wise anyway.</p><p><b>Mary</b> - got the name &quot;Bloody Mary&quot; because well, she was Catholic and disfavoured her father&#039;s creation of the Church of England.</p><p><b>Elizabeth</b> - publicly Protestant, publicly anti-Catholic - but actually fairly tolerant of Catholicism as long as it was kept under wraps.</p><p><b>James VI(I)</b> was born and baptised Catholic by his mother Queen Mary of Scotland but she quickly lost custody of him and he was brought up Presbyterian.&nbsp; Didn&#039;t really engage in persecution.</p><p><b>Charles I </b>born and raised Presbyterian but as soon as his father&#039;s corpse was cold he was in London and professing Church of England.&nbsp; Pretty much forgot his Presbyterian roots and his Scottish birth and only was crowned in Scotland 8 years into his reign.&nbsp; This reign saw the rise of puritanism, calvinism etc with all the resultant further divisive conflict.&nbsp; Incredibly did have Catholic support in Ireland of all places.&nbsp; He didn&#039;t take a vow of marital bliss or chastity as he fathered 27 illegitimate children - the descendants of which are still the scions of British aristocracy to this day - Camilla Parker Bowles is one of them.</p><p>Charles II though a professing Protestant, Church of England was actually fairly tolerant of Catholics, well he was married to one ie Mary of Modena.&nbsp; But religious intolerance on the part of the hierarchy in Britain was at a near apex in acts of violence.&nbsp; He is alleged to have converted to Catholicism on his deathbed.</p><p>Commonwealth - pretty intolerant of anything other than Church of England and not much of that either.&nbsp; <i><u>Did put the English phrase &quot;God With Us&quot; on coinage though.</u></i></p><p><b>James VII(II)</b> Raised by Mary of Modena as a Catholic but was probably more a political Catholic than a practicing Catholic.&nbsp; Created quite a stir by saying he was going to be tolerant of the Church of England all the while allegedly promoting Catholics into positions of power.&nbsp; His daughters, Mary and Anne were raised as Protestants and would be instrumental in his ouster.</p><p><b>Mary</b> -Protestant, married to William of Orange, a scion of Protestantism in the Netherlands.&nbsp; Of course she and her husband saw to the ouster of her father from the throne.&nbsp; Claim of Right and Bill of Right were passed in 1689 preventing Catholic rule in England and Scotland.</p><p><br /></p><p>Until the Catholic Relief Act of 1829 Catholicism was legally subject to persecution in Britain.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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