Edward VI

• reaction to religious changes under somerset

  • 1548 = william body killed in cornwall fo removing objects of veneration
  • iconoclasm in london
• Northumberland's changes

  • 1552 Treason act = no questioning king and beliefs
  • 1552 second act of uniformity = offence to not attend church
  • 1552 prayer book = removed all of catholicism
  • 1553 = replace alters with communion tables
  • 1553 = confiscated church plates
  • 1553 = cranmer published 42 articles about the essentials of the faith
• reactions to religious change under northumberland

  • decline in attendance of church in exeter
  • church plate hidden in some parish churches
  • people less likely to leave money in their wills to the church
• religious change under somerset

  • 1546 - 6 articles, heresy and treason act repealled
  • act to remove chantries
  • injunctions - attacked images
  • act of uniformity 1549 - english worship, bread and wine at congregations
  • BoCP - english services and doubted eucharist services