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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]
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]
Seymour also attempted to bring uniformity to forms of worship, and in 1549 the first Act of Uniformity introduced a Book of Common Prayer that attempted to compromise between different teachings; it was replaced by a more severe form in 1552, after his fall. [2]
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.
In section 13 of the Act of Uniformity 1559, if acting on the advice of her commissioners for ecclesiastical causes or the metropolitan, the monarch had the authority "to ordeyne and publishe suche further Ceremonies or rites as maye bee most meet for the advancement of Goddes Glorye, the edifieing of his church and the due Reverance of Christes holye mistries and Sacramentes.