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

1549. After Somerset’s fall, the Parliament passes an Act to protect the Council. The Bishops attempt to regain ecclesiastical jurisdiction. A Statute for revision for the ecclesiastical laws establishes a Commission of thirty-two The Act for an English Ordinal is passed. Penal sanctions are made for any having the old service books along with the order to destroy all remaining images. King Edward VI sends a letter to all the bishops to destroy the old service books. Wily Winchester, Gardiner, is visited in prison by Rich and Petre. Dixon gives an odd interview with Wily about the Prayer Book. Affirm it, Steve, and we may intercede with the King. Gardiner attempts to recover his liberty after Somerset's fall sending repeated letters to the Council. Bonner, in a different prison, makes the same attempt. Hooper and the advanced Reformers continue the “the altar war.” Hooper is a court favorite and is very popular. s cheerful prospects. The English Bible: man editions were issued of the translations made already in Henry's reign. These were chiefly of the Great Bible, and of Matthew's Bible, which the Great Bible had formerly superseded. Dixon, the Arminian Anglican sitting in the comforts of his 19th century armchair, pugnaciously and unadvisedly talks about the “extremely low tone” of the notes of these Bibles—in the margins, beginning and end of chapters. List of editions (170).