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Edward VI - Coggle Diagram
Edward VI
Somerset
Problem of minority
Power vacuum (something or someone has to fill that, e.g Somerset)
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Title of Lord protector as Somerset doesn’t enact regency council (theory is good duke, reality is unlimited power) monarchical fashion
issued 70 proclamations in under 3 years, ruling by proclamation
Foreign policy
Rough wooing of Scotland
- does not work politically
- economically bad as garrisoning expensive
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War with Scotland from beginning of Edward’s reign up unitl Northumberland wraps it up
- wanted to unite England and Scotland
- if MQS married Edward then removes possibility of catholic monarch in Scotland
- so many English soldiers are in Scotland, Garrisons
Economic policy
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Between 1500-1550 200% inflation, but wages stayed stagnant
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Religious policy
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Book of common prayer 1549
- Protestant forms of worship
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Steven Gardiner (catholic Bishop, he and conservatives unhappy at the direction of travel) - Gardiner isn’t too upset about book of common prayer but can live with it (shows that first book of common prayer wasn’t that Protestant)
Rebellions 1549
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Abuse by land owners (Norfolk foldcourse): issue of land issue specific to Norfolk where the Kett’s rebellion takes place
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Northumberland
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Religious changes
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Influence of Thomas Cranmer, Nicholas Ridley and John Hooper
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Second book of common prayer 1552
42 articles 1552
- Cranmer’s 42 ideas about the church
- Theology of the church
- clearly Protestant, influenced by Calvin
- basis for the later 39 articles
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“Edward can all but be ignored in his understanding of the reign”
NO:
- even he wasn’t driving policy, Northumberland’s actions are determined by trying to gain favour with Edward
- the fact that he is a minor means he can be ignored
- as he got older he did take part in government
YES:
- minor
- lord protector and lord president
- he doesn’t have the dry stamp
“The rebellions of 1549 exposed Somersets governemnt as being weak and ineffective”YES:
- John Dudley had to be sent to settle Kett’s rebellion, Somerset’s rival (which undermines his power)
- speed that rebellions were dealt with (slow = weak governemnt)
- bad economic conditions
- religious policy
- land commissions (ineffective as makes people thing they were going to do something)
NO:
- not many rebellions afterwards
- none of them aimed to overthrow Edward or Somerset
“Edward’s reformation represented truly radical change”
YES:
- Northumberland’s changes more radical (second book of uniformity and second book of common prayer)
- no vestment, no mass, no iconography, new book of common prayer
- chantry’s dissolved (1549) (no prayers for the dead no purgatory)
- more radical then Henry and Elizabeth
- prayer book rebellion
NO:
- short reign in which by the end most English peopel are happy for Mary to become queen
- has not radically changed much, most still catholic
- Somerset’s first book of common prayer not too radical (Gardiner could live with it)
‘The period 1547-53 was one of crisis in England”YES: politically, economic, religious
- minority on the throne
- war with Scotland
- factionalism (Somerset vs Northumberland)
- rebellions
- inflation, debasement
- population increase
- food prices
- bad harvests
- small minority governemnt imposing religion on majority
- enclosure
- devise
NO:
- Tudor line survived
- no civil war
- no invasion from Spain or France
- rebellions dealt with
- moments of crisis rather then one long crisis
“The government of Edward VI copied fairly well considering the legacy left the them by Henry VII”
YES:
- Religious ambiguity
- inflation
NO:
- regency council
- Somerset takes power