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The Act of Uniformity 1551, [1] sometimes referred to as the Act of Uniformity 1552, [3] [4] or the Uniformity Act 1551 [5] was an Act of the Parliament of England. It was enacted by Edward VI of England to supersede his previous Act of Uniformity 1548 . [ 6 ]
The Act of Uniformity 1548 (2 & 3 Edw. 6. c. 1), also called Act of Equality, which established the Book of Common Prayer as the only legal form of worship; 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
c. 67", meaning the 67th act passed during the session that started in the 39th year of the reign of George III and which finished in the 40th year of that reign. Note that the modern convention is to use Arabic numerals in citations (thus "41 Geo. 3" rather than "41 Geo. III"). Acts of the last session of the Parliament of Great Britain and ...
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]
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 .
April 15 – The Act of Uniformity is given royal assent and imposes use of the Protestant Book of Common Prayer on England. April 16 – Pedro de Valdivia founds the city of La Imperial, Chile. April 18 – King Henry II of France enters the city of Metz, ceded to France by Saxony by the January 15 Treaty of Chambord.
c. 67", meaning the 67th act passed during the session that started in the 39th year of the reign of George III and which finished in the 40th year of that reign. Note that the modern convention is to use Arabic numerals in citations (thus "41 Geo. 3" rather than "41 Geo. III"). Acts of the last session of the Parliament of Great Britain and ...
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 ...