Facts About Edward Religion

Question 1

Western Rebellion

Answer 1

Act of Uniformity in 1549 tipped them over (Devon and Cornwall)

Marched under 5 wounds

Demands - restore 6 Articles, Latin Mass, prayers for souls, no English texts, chantry land restored

Gov attacks on enclosures unpopular (south-west is arable)

4,000 dead

Question 2

Kett Rebellion

Answer 2

Against enclosures and high rents

Mon attacked Flowerdew’s land (he’d recently enclosed)

3,000 dead

Question 3

Protestant books

Answer 3

1/2 religious books were Protestant

Repeal of the 1543 Act allowed unrestricted reading

Question 4

Unofficial iconoclasm

Answer 4

Sept 1547 London commissioners pulled down images in St Paul’s

St Neots had images put back when council said images be restored - when Somerset retuned from Scot he finished the job

Nov 1547 Bishop Barlow preached against idolatry

Ludlow sold images into private custody 1548 - dissension in Farnham

Bainton on hid images later set up in Mary’s reign

Oxford and Southampton unofficial iconoclasm

Question 5

Chantries

Answer 5

Blackrod, Eccles and Eccleston chantries refused to give over land

Lancaster priest kept praying until 1560

Henry VIII 1/4 gave to poor in will
Edwards VI 1/2 - due to chantries closing

Ashburton chantry property defended violently

Question 6

William Body

Answer 6

April 1548 killed by mob lead by local priest after he pulled down images

Question 7

Examples of 1st prayer book not being used

Answer 7

Ely curate got in trouble for not using first book of common prayer

Question 8

Altars

Answer 8

St Paul’s removes at night to avoid trouble, Morebath priests payed 3s to have removed

Bishop Day defended Altars, Bishop Ferrar had them restored to quell discontent (in Carmarthen)

Day refused to use normal table and so sent to Fleet Prison

4 Lancashire churches kept altars until 1552