Canon Richard Dixon: History of Church of England from the Abolition of ...

1539-1540. ROYAL RETARDS AND RETARDANTS. 1539. Royal Injunctions are reissued against heretical books in England (165). And where might be Dr. Cranmer? The Vicegerential Injuctions forbid any English version of the Scriptures unless allowed by the King, Council, or by the Bishops. The Injunctions forbid disputations on the Sacrament (166). Diversity of vernacular translations of the Scriptures are forbidden. The Great Bible is made the standard version. However, the Great Bible does not sell well. Edmund Bonner is translated to London and made Bishop by Royal commission, to wit, an officer of the State (167). Dixon switching to the Church of Ireland including the rising of Kildare in 1534. It was mistakenly represented as a religious movement when, in fact, Ireland was indifferent to the Reformation (170). Ireland had little veneration for the Pope since he’d been exacting cash from them for decades. Ireland is in a low condition of the country (175). Rather, the Reformation was imported in from England. George Browne was made the Archbishop of Dublin and had the high pleasure of administering the Oath to King and his laws (176). The Dublin Parliament supports the Reformation in 1536 if it can be called that (177), more of a political than theological Reformation. They passed all the English Reformatory Statues in amass (178).