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The 1540s & English Reformations. Court Faction & Religio-political Caution Howards & Seymours Catherine Parr, m . 1543 Thomas Cranmer, Abp. Cant Contact with Lutherans ebbs and flows Restriction of Bible Reading, ’43 Competing Reformations Henry’s Supremacy in England
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The 1540s & English Reformations Court Faction & Religio-political Caution Howards & Seymours Catherine Parr, m. 1543 Thomas Cranmer, Abp. Cant Contact with Lutherans ebbs and flows Restriction of Bible Reading, ’43 Competing Reformations Henry’s Supremacy in England Political, Religious, Economic “Catholicism without the Pope” Protestant Desires Anticlerical, Theological, Economic “Reformed” Religion Across Europe Contacts with German & Swiss Common Theme: Royal Supremacy Thomas Cranmer, 1545; by Gerlach Flicke; NPG
Edward VI: The Boy King Problems of the 1540s Conservative & Protestant Foreign Wars & Financial Debasement Edward’s Accession & Minority Edward Seymour as Lord Protector War and Religion Seymour’s Arrogance, Fall from Power John Dudley as Privy Counselor Financial Solvency Protestant Developments Edward’s Death Dudley’s Coup & Fall Edward VI, c. 1538, by Holbein
Problems of the 1540s Conservative Leaders Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk Protestant Leaders Thomas Cranmer, Abp. of Canterbury Seymour Family, of Jane Seymour Foreign Wars With Scotland, 1542 -> With France, 1544 -> Boulogne, September 1544 Financial Debasement Costs of War; Sales of Land; Rise of Taxes Debasing Coinage; “Old Coppernose” Debased Groat (4p.), c. 1544-7; Contents of Copper c. 2/3; Silver 1/3
Edward VI: Regnabat 1547-53 Accession Henry’s Will with Seymour Influence Edward to Mary to Elizabeth to Greys To Avoid Scottish/Stuart Line Enmity towards H8’s Sister, Margaret Minority Edward Just 9 Years Old at Accession Protestant Education; Evangelical; Cheke International Exposure Strong Child; His Father’s Son Factional Struggles Continued Harkening back to Edward V & Richard III Overmighty Noble and Royal Minor Edward VI, c. 1547; anon; National Portrait Gallery
Edward Seymour: Lord Protector Edward Seymour Uncle of Edward (Brother of Jane) Earl of Hertford Duke of Somerset, L.P. from Feb. 1547 War Continued Scotland: Battle of Pinkie, ’47 French Aid; Boulogne Falls Further Debasement of Coinage Religion Ends H8’s Restrictions on English Bibles Strikes’ Against Act of Six Articles Book of Common Prayer, ’49 Seymour’s Arrogance, Fall from Power, ‘49 Popular Rebellion & Noble Opposition Book of Common Prayer, 1549
John Dudley as Privy Counselor John Dudley Son of Edmund (d. 1510) Earl of Warwick; Privy Council President of Council, ’50 Duke of Northumberland, ’51 Towards Financial Solvency William Paulet, Lord Treasurer William Cecil Protestant Developments International Causes Cranmer, Bucer, Vermigli Revised BCP, ’52 Forty-Two Articles, ’53 Swiss Protestantism Vestiarian Controversy Edward VI and the Pope; n.d., anon.; NPG
King Edward VI: Obit July 6, 1553 Royal Illness & Succession Edward’s Respiratory Issues Sister Mary to Follow Religious & Personal Differences Northumberland’s Coup Lady Jane Grey G-daughter of Mary(H8 Sis) Jane Marries Guildford Dudley Jane’s Reign: July 10-19, 1553 Northumberland’s Fall Popular, Noble Fears of War Support for the Catholic Mary (esp. Howards) Dudleys, Greys Imprisoned Queen Mary’s Triumph in London, August 1553 Edward’s “Devise for the Succession,” 1553, Inner Temple Library, Petyt MS 538, 47, fol. 317r.
