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Edward VI - Coggle Diagram
Edward VI
religion and reform
clear from coronation
religious division
bishops split - 9 reform, 10 against, 8 neutral
Cranmer and Ridley - reformists
reformers denounced injunctions as insufficient
Gardiner and Bonner conservative
improisoned for protesting against visitation and injunctions in Sept
iconoclasm
spontaneous local outbreaks
Eg. East Anglia
Ash Wed - Bishop Ridley denounced images of saints and use of holy water
reformers from continent return - pamphlet campaign
John Bale reform propoganda literature
publishing reached its peak in 1548 - 1550
250 books produced
3/4 of books published under somerset- religious tracts
90% of pop catholic and happy
the church
injunctions for clergy
uncontroversial
ie. clergy guilty of simony would loose benefices
reformist but not radical
all parishes - English bible and Erasmus' paraphrases
had to actively encourage reading of the bible
stark difference to H8's 1543 Act for the Advancement of True Religion
more extreme than H8
ie coverings, table clothes or candles used in idolatrous fashion destroyed
catholic ceremonies
6 feb 1548 PC abolished familiar catholic ceremonies
socio-economic problems
Act for the Dissolution of the Chantries
only surviving source of charity
fund wars with France and Scotland
£160k per year income for crown
rumours that church property would be confiscated next triggered Linconshire Uprising
exasibated by royal commisioners informing injunctions
= unrest in Cornwall Dec 1547
somerset becoming unpopular
gov agent William Body attacked and forced to flee
population increase
poor harvest 1548
succession
Hertford/Duke ofSomerset made protector until Ed 18
1536 Sucession Act
foreign policy
scotland
auld alliance
Peace of Andres 1546 - Francis I - dies = stalled negotiations between France and England
Henry II - anglophobic - endangered England
sept 1547 Somerset invaded
7k mercenaries
£580,393
debased coinage 1547-1551
increased poverty
dissolution of the chantries in the first parliament
win at Pinkie
treaty Greenwich
inc. Mary and Edward marriage allience
install garrisons
poorly positioned
put him in strong position when Parl and Convocation assembled Nov 4 1547
no protestant alliance available in Europe
April 24th 1547 Charles V defeated Schmalkaldic league at Battle of Muhlberg
exiled protestants to England
if England looked like moving in a radical direction = possibility of CH5 intervening
24th May Somerset - gov not planning further religious change. - lying
parliament
first parliament
religious vacuum - repealed henrician acts
further reforms which provoked rebellion
Sacrament Act
laity = communion in both kinds
The Election of Bishops Act
bishops appointed by monarch
control over episcopy
The Vagabond Act
overturned by North
able bodied, out of work 3 days = branded V and slavery
their children - set to work as apprentices
act to repeal 1536 statute of letters patent
stability
only parl can overturn acts made whilst king is a minor
act to repeal the Act of Six Articles
left England without an official statement of faith
religious vacuum
no official doctrine - no heresy laws needed
repeal of henry's treason and heresy acts
Pollard 'golden age' but most likely practical step - no official orthodoxy :. no crime of heresy
rulling
somerset
relied on proclomations
evidence for autocracy
Hoak and Bush
76 in 33 months
evidence for pragmatism
time of unrest and 'crisis'
ie HoL divided over marriage of priests act 1547