In the early 1580s, after twenty-five years on the throne, Elizabeth still dominated the Church of England. 1 She was not its Supreme Governor in name only! Insisting on uniformity at every turn, she detested the Puritans, while hating the Anabaptists along with the new-fangled Separatists who were now beginning to form churches. The authorities had clamped down upon the Puritans, largely beating them into a grudging and sullen submission by this time, although the measures against them remained in force. Archbishop Whitgift compelled every minister of the State Church to subscribe to the Royal Supremacy in all matters, to pledge unqualified assent to the Thirty-Nine Articles, and to use only the Book of Common Prayer in worship. In 1584, a list of twenty-four questions on disputed points was presented to every Church of England minister, to be answered on oath.
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