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The marginal note to section 1 of the Religious Disabilities Act 1846 said that the effect of this was to repeal sections 1 to 4 and 6 of the Act of Uniformity 1551. The whole Act, so far as it extended to Northern Ireland, was repealed by section 1(1) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1950. The whole Act, so far as unrepealed ...
The Act of Uniformity 1552 (5 & 6 Edw. 6. c. 1) required the use of the Book of Common Prayer of 1552; The Act of Uniformity 1558 (1 Eliz. 1. c. 2), adopted on the accession of Elizabeth I; The Act of Uniformity 1662 (14 Cha. 2. c. 4), enacted after the restoration of the monarchy; The Act of Uniformity (Explanation) Act 1663 (15 Cha. 2. c. 6)
The Act of Uniformity required church attendance on Sundays and holy days and imposed fines for each day absent. It authorized the 1559 prayer book, which effectively restored the 1552 prayer book with some modifications. [33] The Litany in the 1552 book had denounced "the bishop of Rome, and all his detestable enormities". [31]
Title page of the 1552 Book of Common Prayer. The 1552 Book of Common Prayer, also called the Second Prayer Book of Edward VI, [1] was the second version of the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) and contained the official liturgy of the Church of England from November 1552 until July 1553.
The Act of Uniformity 1558 was an Act of the Parliament of England, passed in 1559, [c] to regularise prayer, divine worship and the administration of the sacraments in the Church of England. In so doing, it mandated worship according to the attached 1559 Book of Common Prayer .
The book attached to the Act of Uniformity 1558 [note 5] was the 1552 prayer book, though with what Bryan D. Spinks called "significant, if not totally explicable, alterations." [38] Among the changes was the removal of the explanatory Black Rubric from the Communion service. [39] Also removed were the prayers against the pope in the Litany.
1552. January – Act of Uniformity imposes the Second Book of Common Prayer [1] (with effect from March). Parish priests are to give instruction in the catechism every Sunday afternoon. [4] 22 January – execution of the former Lord Protector Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset for treason. [2]
The Act of Uniformity 1548, [1] the Act of Uniformity 1549, [3] the Uniformity Act 1548, [4] or the Act of Equality was an act of the Parliament of England, passed on 21 January 1549. [ 5 ] It was the logical successor of the Edwardian Injunctions of 1547 and the Sacrament Act 1547 which had taken piecemeal steps towards the official ...