Edward part 2

1547

Year Edward VI became king; radical religious changes and iconoclasm began.

Roughly 20%

Approximate proportion of Londoners who were Protestant by 1547.

February 1547

Denunciation of images in London under Somerset’s government.

July 1547

Injunctions issued attacking popular Catholic practices.

December 1547

Dissolution of chantries and religious guilds; crown seized property.

1548

Poor harvest reinforced inflationary pressures.

May 1549

Introduction of the Book of Common Prayer under Somerset.

1549

Somerset introduced a sheep tax to deter enclosure; also year of major rebellions (Western and South-West).

66%

Percentage of people leaving money to parish churches in Lincolnshire and Huntingdonshire in 1545.

10%

Percentage leaving money to parish churches in 1552.

1550

Hooper commented that pace of reform was hampered by public opinion.

January 1553

Start of crown confiscation of church plate.

1533

June – Cranmer’s Forty-Two Articles of Religion devised (never implemented).

1552

Year of the more radical Book of Common Prayer under Northumberland.

8 July

Start of Kett’s rebellion – tearing down hedges near Wymondham.

9 July

Protestors begin marching towards Norwich during Kett’s rebellion.

21 July

Rebels begin firing on Norwich.

22 July

Norwich captured by Kett’s rebels.

1 August

Failure of John Dudley to recapture Norwich.

27 August

Final defeat of Kett’s rebellion; Kett executed.

4 August

Rebels defeated at Clyst Heath in Western Rebellion.

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