EDWARD VI, 1547-1553
SOCIAL IMPACT OF RELIGIOUS AND ECONOMIC CHANGES:
• Royal visitation to examine clergy, doctrine and practices of the Church = 1547
• Ordered that the Book of Homilies and Erasmus’s Paraphrases should be placed in every church = July 1547
• Erasmus’s Paraphrases established in almost all parish churches = End of 1549
• Royal Injunctions ordering all clergy to preach in English with English Bible & removal of superstitious images = July 1547
• Six Articles Act repealed = November 1547
• Treason Act repealed = November 1547
• Chantries Act = November 1547
• Series of proclamations issued to dampen Protestant unrest = Early 1548
• Proclamation stating only authorised clergy could preach = April 1548
• Proclamation stating no preaching until new liturgy introduced = September 1548
• Act of Uniformity = 1549
• Cranmer’s prayer book introduced (vague) = 1549
• Western Rebellion = 1549
• Kett’s rebellion = 1549, gangs emerged to break enclosures May-June 1549, said he could call on 15,000 men, 4,000 deaths in
suppression of rebellion
• Stone altars removed and replaced with wooden ones = 1500
• Parliament met to discuss a comprehensive programme of religious reform and pass laws = January 1552
• Treason Act passed = January 1552
• Second Prayer Book, most radically Protestant = January 1552
• 42 Articles submitted = November 1552
• Laws passed raising tax on sheep and cloth = 1548-49
• Rising prices and population growth peaked = 1540s
• Vagrancy Act (Slavery Act) introduced = 1547
• Proclamations issued by Somerset enforcing all statutes against enclosure for grazing = 1548
• Campaigns against Scotland 1547-49 cost £580,000
• Coinage reissued 1552 with same silver content as 1527
• Poor harvests causing social unrest after popular risings of 1549
• Sudden drop in exports of cloth in trade with Netherlands = 1551
• Northumberland repealed sheep tax 1550
• Northumberland’s new Treason Laws, reimposing censorship to help restore law and order = 1550
• Poor law passed making parishes responsible for raising money to look after deserving poor = 1552
• In Northumberland’s attempts to expand trade routes. English ships were trading as far as the Gold Coast in West Africa by =
1553
• Willoughby and Chancellor set out to find a North-east passage = 1553, Willoughby & 2 ships perished, Chancellor reached port
of Archangel and founded Muscovy Company
• Northumberland returned Boulogne to France for £133,333
• King’s debts had been reduced from £300,000 in 1550 (at their worst), £180,000 by 1553
• Northumberland’s sale of Crown lands raised £100,000
• Northumberland’s sale of Chantry lands raised £110,000
• Northumberland’s parliamentary taxes raised £336,000
• Funds collected through churches to support impotent poor, houses built to accommodate impotent poor = 1547-1552
• Idle poor unemployed for 3+ days classed as vagrant, if convicted of begging given to informant as slave for 2 years = 1547-1552
EDWARD VI, SOMERSET AND NORTHUMBERLAND:
• Edward VI contracted measles, then smallpox = 1552
• No evidence of Edward VI’s early death likely until = Spring 1553
• Regency of Somerset = 1547-49
• Somerset arrested on orders of council, imprisoned in Tower = 11 October 1549
• Somerset executed after rumours he was plotting to assassinate rivals on council = January 1552
• Northumberland in power = 1550-53
SOCIAL IMPACT OF RELIGIOUS AND ECONOMIC CHANGES:
• Royal visitation to examine clergy, doctrine and practices of the Church = 1547
• Ordered that the Book of Homilies and Erasmus’s Paraphrases should be placed in every church = July 1547
• Erasmus’s Paraphrases established in almost all parish churches = End of 1549
• Royal Injunctions ordering all clergy to preach in English with English Bible & removal of superstitious images = July 1547
• Six Articles Act repealed = November 1547
• Treason Act repealed = November 1547
• Chantries Act = November 1547
• Series of proclamations issued to dampen Protestant unrest = Early 1548
• Proclamation stating only authorised clergy could preach = April 1548
• Proclamation stating no preaching until new liturgy introduced = September 1548
• Act of Uniformity = 1549
• Cranmer’s prayer book introduced (vague) = 1549
• Western Rebellion = 1549
• Kett’s rebellion = 1549, gangs emerged to break enclosures May-June 1549, said he could call on 15,000 men, 4,000 deaths in
suppression of rebellion
• Stone altars removed and replaced with wooden ones = 1500
• Parliament met to discuss a comprehensive programme of religious reform and pass laws = January 1552
• Treason Act passed = January 1552
• Second Prayer Book, most radically Protestant = January 1552
• 42 Articles submitted = November 1552
• Laws passed raising tax on sheep and cloth = 1548-49
• Rising prices and population growth peaked = 1540s
• Vagrancy Act (Slavery Act) introduced = 1547
• Proclamations issued by Somerset enforcing all statutes against enclosure for grazing = 1548
• Campaigns against Scotland 1547-49 cost £580,000
• Coinage reissued 1552 with same silver content as 1527
• Poor harvests causing social unrest after popular risings of 1549
• Sudden drop in exports of cloth in trade with Netherlands = 1551
• Northumberland repealed sheep tax 1550
• Northumberland’s new Treason Laws, reimposing censorship to help restore law and order = 1550
• Poor law passed making parishes responsible for raising money to look after deserving poor = 1552
• In Northumberland’s attempts to expand trade routes. English ships were trading as far as the Gold Coast in West Africa by =
1553
• Willoughby and Chancellor set out to find a North-east passage = 1553, Willoughby & 2 ships perished, Chancellor reached port
of Archangel and founded Muscovy Company
• Northumberland returned Boulogne to France for £133,333
• King’s debts had been reduced from £300,000 in 1550 (at their worst), £180,000 by 1553
• Northumberland’s sale of Crown lands raised £100,000
• Northumberland’s sale of Chantry lands raised £110,000
• Northumberland’s parliamentary taxes raised £336,000
• Funds collected through churches to support impotent poor, houses built to accommodate impotent poor = 1547-1552
• Idle poor unemployed for 3+ days classed as vagrant, if convicted of begging given to informant as slave for 2 years = 1547-1552
EDWARD VI, SOMERSET AND NORTHUMBERLAND:
• Edward VI contracted measles, then smallpox = 1552
• No evidence of Edward VI’s early death likely until = Spring 1553
• Regency of Somerset = 1547-49
• Somerset arrested on orders of council, imprisoned in Tower = 11 October 1549
• Somerset executed after rumours he was plotting to assassinate rivals on council = January 1552
• Northumberland in power = 1550-53
