Edward

• problems with edwards age:

  • factional struggle due lack control
  • could not lead troops into battle
• 1547: Book of Homilies 


  provided clergy with model sermons that should be placed in every church

  clergy had to provide sermons in english
• Act of Uniformity 1549

  clergy were allowed to marry

  holy days and worship of saints banned
• First book of common prayer 1549

  included transubstantiation
• 1548 all public preaching banned
• Why was Somerset disliked?

  He continued wars with France and Scotland

  He faced many rebellions by from the public

  He debased the coinage in 1542
• Ketts Rebellion

  1549

  Angry at enclosures

  marched to norwich

  defeated kings army at first

  rebels defeated by Northumberland
• was the ketts rebellion a big threat?

  they defeated an army of the king

  had 16, 000 rebels

  didn't threaten the monarchy
• Western/prayer book rebellion

  1549

  wanted changed to prayer book to make it catholic

  protests ignored by somerset
• Northumberland took over in 1550 after Somerset was arrested
• 1552 Act of Uniformity 


  fines for missing church
• 1552 Second book of common prayer 


  removed catholic elements left by the first book
• 1553 forty two articles 


  outlined the strong protestant beliefs in church
• 1550 Hooper jailed for preaching about saints and wearing surplice
• the succession

  edward died 1553 after changing the succession

  Jane grey married to Northumberlands son

  Jane grey made queen

  Mary rejects this & escapes capture

  commons pronounced mary queen and arrested Northumberland