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Edward VI 1547-1553
- Accession: January 28th
- Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford = Lord Protector and Duke of Somerset
- Overthrew Regency Council and awarded himself control
- Appointed own Household (Sir Michael Stanhope)
- Led to factional rivalries - Earl of Southhampton arrested
- William Cecil
- Own household
had little
experience =
poor
government?
- Led to factional rivalries - Earl of Southhampton arrested
- Overthrew Regency Council and awarded himself control
- The situation in 1547
- Religious Reform Confused
- Religious Reform under Somerset
- 1547 Chantries Act
- 1548 = first
Prayer Book
still had catholic
elements
- 1548 first Act of Uniformity
made the prayer book the
offical liturgy
- 1547 Repeal
of the six
articles
removed
Catholic
doctrine
- 1549 Act allowed Clergy to Marry
- 1547 Book of Homilies
prevent Catholic
preaching
- 1547 Royal
injunctions
removed
superstitious
images
- 1548
proclamations
to lessen
Protestant
unrest
- 1548
images to be
removed
- 1548 Only
authorised
Clergy
allowed to
preach
- 1547 Chantries Act
- Religious Reform under Northumberland
- Dec 1549
Proclamations
orders the
destruction of
remaining images
- Jan 1550: new
ordinal included oath
to saints
- Nov 1550:
Stone altars
removed and
replaced with
wooden tables
- Jan 1552: 2nd
book of common
prayer = highly
protestant
- Apr 1552: 2nd Act of
uniformity enforced prayer
book
- Nov 1552: 43 articles
- Dec 1549
Proclamations
orders the
destruction of
remaining images
- Religious Reform under Somerset
- War with Scotland
- Invades Scotland to claim Edward's suzerainty over Scotland
- Treaty of Greenwich
(1543) to marry MQS
and Edward
- Treaty of Greenwich
(1543) to marry MQS
and Edward
- debases coinage to
pay for war (raises
£537,000) adds to
inflation
- Consequences =
the declaration of
war from Henry II
in 1549
- Forts hard to garrison
- English could not capture Dunbar and Edinburgh castles
- Forts hard to garrison
- Invades Scotland to claim Edward's suzerainty over Scotland
- Need to increase revenue
- Population increase and vagrancy increase
- Social Policy = Rebellions
- Kett's Rebellion 1549
- Robert Kett: march on
Norfolk + 16,000 followers.
Stormed walls, controlling
2nd biggest city.
- John Dudley: Duke of
Northumberland sent
to control rebels,
killing 3,000 of Kett's
men. Kett executed
December 7th 1549
- Robert Kett: march on
Norfolk + 16,000 followers.
Stormed walls, controlling
2nd biggest city.
- Western Rebellion 1549
- Cornwall and Devon
- Cornwall and Devon
- Kett's Rebellion 1549
- Social Policy = Rebellions
- Religious Reform Confused
- Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford = Lord Protector and Duke of Somerset
- Government
- Used 70 proclamation
over 3 years. Many
passed by Somerset.
Obtained sole custody
of dry stamp and tried to
insist that the King's
signiture was only valid
with his counter
signature.
- Little concern for the
poor: Vagrancy Act
1547 (any person
who was out of work
for more than 3 days
would be sold into
slavery for two
years.
- Little concern for the
poor: Vagrancy Act
1547 (any person
who was out of work
for more than 3 days
would be sold into
slavery for two
years.
- Somerset by-passed the privy council
- Used 70 proclamation
over 3 years. Many
passed by Somerset.
Obtained sole custody
of dry stamp and tried to
insist that the King's
signiture was only valid
with his counter
signature.
- Fall of Somerset - 1549
- Northumberland comes to power
- Once in
power
organised
gov. to
secure his
power.
- Once in
power
organised
gov. to
secure his
power.
- Good Duke vs Bad Duke
- Northumberland comes to power
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