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English Bible

England · Religion / Church of England. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1537

Thomas Cromwell Essex, 1stSeptember 1537

Religion / Church of England

Cromwell completes a new set of vicegerential injunctions declaring open war on "pilgrimages, feigned relics or images, or any such superstitions" commanding that "one book of the whole Bible in English" be set up in every church

Names involved

Thomas Cromwell Essex, 1st

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