This is a timeline of all the KEY dates during the Mid-Tudor reign, including a summary/explanation given with each date. This is perfect for memorising the key dates needed to include in essays and also helps to understand the numerous events during the reign. Includes all key dates from Edward V...
1547 - 1548
Edward VI 1547 Edward VI claimed throne at 9 Edward Seymour made Lord Protector until Edward was
1547 - years old 18
1553
1547 Chantries Act The Act of Dissolution was revived, condemned all prayer
for the dead
1547 Treason Act repealed 6 Articles Re-established key Catholic doctrines, removed old
heresy, allowed people to discuss religion freely
1547 Vagrancy Act provided that vagabonds could be enslaved for two years
and continued weekly parish collections for the poor.
1548 Chantries Act Abolished chantries
1548- new laws that raised tax on
1549 sheep and cloth
1548 First Book of Common Prayer Brought in ceremonial change
1548 Establishment of enclosure of which Somerset made himself the head. It was
commission designed to prevent the enclosure of land, but was
ine ective
1549
1549 First book of Common Prayer prayer book set out form the services should take
1549 Act of uniformity imposed a single standard of worship
designed to impose single (uniform) standard of worship
across England in order to end religious confusion. Among
its terms was that English was to be used as the language
of worship and that congregations should be o ered both
bread and wine during communion.
1549 Western Rebellion 1549 Prayer Book seen as too Protestant, 1548 Enclosure
commission. Aimed to restore Catholic prayer book +
wanted to go back to ways of 6 articles
-6,000 people but mostly in Somerset, con ned support
Execution of 28 people
1549 Ketts Rebellion Local economic, reversal of enclosing land + restoration to
land that had been enclosed, 15,000 mostly in East
Anglia, Earl of Northumberland put down with 14,000 men
3,000 killed
Between 30-300 rebels hung, Eliz put in tower
1549 Somerset accused of
kidnapping King by
conservatives
1549 Somerset appeals to
Northumberland as a friend to
help him, he is imprisoned
1549 Proclamation issued which
ordered the destruction of
remainder of images.
1549 Execution Thomas Seymour Somerset's brother.
He was becoming an increasing threat to Somerset's
power; he sought to marry 15-year-old Princess Elizabeth,
tried to turn Edward VI against Somerset AND plotted with
the Earl of Southampton, all to further his career.
He was found guilty of 33 charges of treason
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