Canon Richard Dixon: The History of the Church of England," 2.112ff.


1539--CLOSING MONASTERIES, SIX ARTICLES, AND ABUSERS OF REFORMED CHURCHMEN. The rising career of Dr. London in the Midlands. that is, in shutting down monasteries and filling the royal coffers (112). Another big player: the career of Dr. Tregonwell in the south and west (113). He suppresses more than twenty houses (114). Cha-ching goes the cash register. Give that boy a preferment. Dr. Petre, also, in the south and west, suppresses about a dozen (115). Various other surrenders given in Dixon’s footnotes (117). General election (118) for Parliament. Stacking? Meeting of Parliament, end of April. Audley's speech (119), probably owned by Henry, in pursuit of religious uniformity. Committee of about 12 Bishops appointed for uniformity, 6 for Six Articles and 6 against. They do not agree. The Duke of Norfolk propounds the Six Articles in open Parliament. Three days' debate thereupon (120). Cranmer, Shaxton, and Latimer hold strong. A penal is statute made to enforce Uniformity (121). This is the Act of the Six Articles (122)—here’s our unity, take it or burn: (1) transubstantiation, (2) communion under both kinds, (3) vows of chastity needed to be observed as part of divine law, (4) clerical celibacy is compulsory, (5) private masses are required by divine law, and (6) auricular confession (that is, confession to a priest) was necessary as part of divine law.

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