During King Edward VI's brief years England saw the Six Articles repealed, priests allowed to marry, and the old Latin service of worship replaced by Thomas Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer in English. Under King Charles I and with the assistance of the Anglican Archbishop William Laud, the King insisted that worship in England be conducted according to the Prayer Book and no other. When Charles tried to force his brand of high-church on the Scots, John Milton called The Book of Common Prayer "the skeleton of a Mass-book."

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When King Henry VII died in 1547, his only son, frail ten-year-old Edward VI, followed his father to the throne. Edward's mother was Jane Seymour, whom Henry had married after he had executed Anne Boleyn on charges of adultery. During Edward's brief years England saw the Six Articles repealed, priests allowed to marry, and the old Latin service of worship replaced by Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer in English.

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(1553)

When King Henry VIII died, his son Edward VI followed him to the throne. During his brief years England saw the six Articles (from Henry's reign) repealed, priests allowed to marry, and the old Latin service of worship replaced by Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer in English. In 1553 Cranmer also produced the Forty-Two Articles which defined the faith of the Church of England along Protestant lines.

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King of England from 1509-1547. Under King Henry, England rejected the authority of Rome. King Henry had no son born of his queen, Catherine of Aragon, who had delivered five children (the only survivor beyond infancy was the princess Mary). England was in no mood to accept a girl as heir to the throne because of the nation's only previous queen who had occasioned bloody wars of succession. As Catherine grew older, Henry grew more troubled. In 1525 the queen was forty and Henry pondered more and more the ways of God: "Am I under some curse of God?" (Catherine had been Henry's deceased brother Arthur's wife for several months.) In his mind was Le 10:21, "If a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing, they shall be childless." The Church of Rome recognized the curse, but had granted the marriage for reasons of its own

The daughter of King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, Spain. Succeeded her half-brother Edward VI to the English throne upon his death. Devoutly Catholic, she threatened England's newfound independence from Rome. She sent nearly 300 Protestants to the burning stake earning her the title "Bloody Mary". Although she may have been England's only pious monarch of the 16th century, her mistake was in marrying Phillip of Spain, seen as a betrayal of her people. She died a broken and dispirited Queen.

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The mother of King Edward VI. King Henry VIII married her after he had executed Anne Boleyn on charges of adultery.

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(1539)

After King Henry VIII's break with the Roman Catholic church, England's orthodoxy remained intact. Henry continued to insist upon Catholic doctrine within the realm. Apparently, his goal was an English Catholic Church instead of a Roman Catholic one. The Statute of Six Articles in 1539 upheld such Catholic articles as clerical celibacy, the private mass, and confessions to a priest. Under King Edward VI's reign the Six Articles were repealed and Thomas Cranmer produced the Forty-Two Articles which defined the faith of the Church along Protestant lines.

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