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English Reformation
- Submission of the ClergyOn the 10th of May 1532, Edward Foxe stood before the Convocation of Canterbury and presented three articles from King Henry VIII.
- Supplication against the OrdinariesIn 1532, the House of Commons drafted a petition known as the Supplication against the Ordinaries. This document emerged from deep dissatisfaction with how…
- John WycliffeJohn Wycliffe was born in the village of Hipswell, near Richmond in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England. Records suggest he was born in the mid-1320s…
- Pilgrimage of GraceIn 1535, the year before the revolt began, bad harvests triggered grain riots in Craven during June and Somerset by April.
- English ReformationIn the early 1500s, an English parishioner knelt before a priest to receive the Eucharist during Mass. The bread and wine had been consecrated by the priest…
- Book of Common PrayerIn 1549, King Edward VI of England authorized a new prayer book that would change the course of Christian worship in Britain.
- Foxe's Book of MartyrsIn March 1563, John Foxe published the first English edition of The Actes and Monuments from the press of John Day. This gigantic folio volume contained…