1535 – (September) Commissioners sent by Cromwell to investigate the state of the Church, e.g. following vows, corruption

Thomas Legh and Richard Leyton carried out visitations on Monastic property – given agenda

1536 – Findings of ‘moral corruption’ in regular clergy presented to Parliament – Manipulated commons – from the people, not the Crown (for money)

1536 – (January) Catherine of Aragon died

1536 – (February) The Act for the Dissolution of the Smaller Monasteries (Annual income of less than £200)

1536 – (July) The Ten Articles

Statement of Religion in new English Church – Confirmed good works (Catholicism), only mentioned 3/7 sacraments – Baptism, Eucharist & Penance (Protestant)

1536 – (May) Anne Boleyn beheaded

Henry married Jane Seymour the following day

1536 – (August) Cromwell’s First Royal Injunctions

Ordered Clergy to: Enforce the Ten Articles, defend the Royal Supremacy in sermons, and abandon pilgrimages and Saint’s day

1536 – (October) Lincolnshire Rising >>> Pilgrimage of Grace – See other notes

1537 – (January) Cumberland Rising

1537-39 – ‘Voluntary’ Surrender of Greater Monasteries –Disastrous consequences, Abbot of Glastonbury hanged upon refusal

1537 – (July) The Bishop’s Book, Institution of a Christian Man, Balance between C&P

No transubstantiation, mainly Protestant, HE, Henry made 250 changes, ‘good works’

1537 – (August) The English Bible – Mathew Bible

1st Official translation – Distinctly Protestant version – Had Royal permission

Cromwell funded £400 to print

1537 – (September) Cromwell 2nd Royal Injunction

English Bible in all Parishes in 2 years

Births, marriages & deaths all registered

1537 – (October 12th) Edward VI born

(October 24th) Jane Seymour died

1538 – (December) Exeter Conspiracy

1539 – (June) The Act of Six Articles – Catholic

Confirmed transubstantiation, private masses, hearing of confessions by Priests

Banned clerical marriage, taking Communion in both kinds by lay people

Severe penalties (e.g. denial of transubstantiation – automatic burning, heretic – no possibility of recantation)

1539 – (June) The Act for the Dissolution of the Greater Monasteries

1540 – Henry married Anne of Cleves

(6th January – Annulled 6th July)

1540 – (June) Cromwell arrested for treason & heresy

Blamed for Cleves marriage & spread of heresy in Calais (protecting Protestants and not enforcing the Six Articles)

Enemies – faction, Duke of Norfolk

(July) Executed

1540 – (July) Henry married Catherine Howard – daughter of Catholic, Duke of Norfolk (Catholic faction)

1542 – (February) Catherine Howard Executed

1543 – (April) Cranmer protected by Henry against the Catholic faction – given his ring

1543 – (May) Act for the Advancement of True Religion – Restricted access of the English Bible to upper-class men and noblewomen in private (not lay people)

(May) The Necessary Doctrine and Erudition of a Christian Man (The King’s Book – written by Henry himself)

Revised Bishop’s Book – defending transubstantiation and the Six Articles, also encouraged preaching and attacked the use of images

1543 – (July) Henry married Catherine Parr

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