Canon Richard Dixon's "History of the Church of England, Vol. 3," 1ff.

FIRST ACT OF UNIFORMITY, 1549. 1549 BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. BOOK 3. CHAPTER XV. A.D. 1549. The First Act for Uniformity. It was not the beginning of Uniformity. Point well taken by Canon Dixon. But it was a measure of most serious import. Opposition of the prelates of the Old Learning—the same gaggle: Bonner, Tunstall, Thirleby, Heath, Day, Skip, Kugg, and Aldrich, but no mention of Gardiner. The Sarum Missal was the substratum and Quignon’s Breviary. Examination of the Act. It contained nothing against lay recusants, just the clerics. It showed that Parliament was willing to restore ecclesiastical jurisdiction so far as suited their own convenience. The phrase "the King's ecclesiastical laws " was now fully sanctioned. The Convocations of the clergy had nothing to do with the first Act for Uniformity nor with any subsequent Act. Nor with the First Prayer Book. Examination of evidence on this important point. Act about marriage of priests passed. Act about tithes, intended to protect the new monastics in their property. Other Acts. The Commons request the restoration of Latimer to his See (Worcester). Latimer's hot, if not intemperate, zeal against Lord Seymour of Sudeley. Case of the latter. Contrary to canon law, Cranmer signed the warrant for his execution: another stain on Cranmer. Latimer's sermons preached before the King. His invectives against Seymour. He defended the Attainder of treason. He lashed the vices of the age (again). Numerous catchy anecdotes about his hearers. The First Prayer Book of Edward (15). The Windsor Commission seems to have had no written commission to compose it (16. Comparison of the First Prayer Book or Use of the Church of England, with the Sarum Use, the best known of the old diocesan Uses (17). As to the daily Prayers, two services, not the daily hours of seven. They showed the “communicative spirit” of the Reformation (whatever that means). The Order of Morning Prayers chiefly followed Matins and Prime of the old Hours of the Breviary: and the Evensong chiefly followed Compline (19).