England · Religion / Church of England. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
The first attempt is made to clarify religious doctrine after the break with Rome, Bishop Edward Foxe, with strong backing from Cromwell and Cranmer, tables proposals in Convocation, which the King later endorses as the Ten Articles and which are printed in August
Cromwell circulates an injunctions for the enforcement of the Ten Articles, provoking opposition in September and October in Lincolnshire and then throughout the six northern counties provoking widespread popular and clerical uprisings, which found support among the gentry and even the nobility, collectively known as the Pilgrimage of Grace
The Ten Articles were first published in 1536 by Thomas Cranmer. They were the first guidelines of the Church of England as it became independent of Rome
Supports evangelical elements in Henrician reform.
The purpose of the Bishops Book, along with the Ten Articles of the previous year, was to implement the reforms of Henry VIII in separating from the Catholic Church and reforming the Ecclesia Anglicana. It was considered reformatory in basic orientation, though it was not strongly Lutheran. The work functioned as an official formulary of the reformed Anglican faith in England
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