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Mid tudor crisis
Edwards religion
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Edward's regime drove religious reform, by the end of his reign, the Church of
England's
doctrine was undoubtedly
protestant
Acts of Uniformity (
1549
)
an attempt to
standardise
religious
practise
Indicated a break from
traditional
worship
Common Prayer Book (
1549
)
it was full of
compromises
stated there was no corporeal presence in
bread
and
wine
, yet there were attempts to satisfy traditionalists
This was receives with hostility, the driving force for
rebellion
in
Cornwall
Clerical Marriage Legalised in
1549
attracted clergymen to
Protestantism
, by early
1500s
, 15% of clergy were married
The Second Act of
Uniformity
in
1552
, the second act was passed under
Northumberland
Stated that it was a
punishable offence
for the clergy or laity to not attend church services
The need for this act demonstrates the
states
recognition that some members of society were refusing to attend parish churches
Bishop
Hooper
in
Gloucester
noted that people went out of their way to find traditionalist prayer books
The
1552 Prayer
Book
The
Prayer
Book was revised in order to remove the
contradictory
traditionalist elements in the 1549 publication
Somerset's changes in the church
Altars
replaced by
communion
tables
Clergy
not to wear their vestments,
liturgical robes
in
1547
iconoclasm swept across the country,
alienated
the laity
Spread of Protestantism under
Somerset
press
censorship had been relaxed, a rise in pro protestant pamphlets, spreading the
protestant
message
by 1553 the
educated
elites were more likely to be
protestant
Incoherent reforms under Edward
religious reform
was not
consistent
This is evidenced in the
1549
and
1552
prayer book