Mary I: Religion

• 1553: Proclamation denies use of force for religious conformity

  Archbishop Cranmer arrested, others imprisoned

  Parliament would not repeal Act of Supremacy

  Church returned to 1547 six articles

  Mary relinquished title of Supreme Head of the Church in December
• 1554: Royal Injunctions recatholicised clergy

  Cardinal Pole returns to England

  Second Act of Repeal undid all Anti-Papal legislation
• 1555: Protestant matyrs including Latimer and Ridley made

  Cardinal Pole becomes Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1556: Twelve decrees on Clerical Discpline.

  Cranmer recants all protestant beliefs and is burned
• 1557: Refoundation of small religious houses. 284 Protestant martyrs burnt.