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Act of Uniformity 1548

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261:... lest any obstinate person who willingly would disturb so godly order and quiet in his realm should not go unpunished, that it may also be ordained and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any manner of parson, vicar, or other whatsoever minister, that ought or should sing or say common prayer mentioned in the said book, or minister the sacraments, shall after the said feast of Pentecost next coming refuse to use the said common prayers, or to minister the sacraments in such cathedral or parish church or other places as he should use or minister the same, in such order and form as they be mentioned and set forth in the said book or shall use, wilfully and obstinately standing in the same, any other rite, ceremony, order, form, or manner of Mass openly or privily, or Matins, Evensong, administration of the sacraments, or other open prayer that is mentioned and set forth in the said book; or shall preach, declare, or speak anything in the derogation or depraving of the said book, or anything therein contained, or of any part thereof; and shall be thereof lawfully convicted according to the laws of this realm, by verdict of twelve men, or by his own confession, or by the notorious evidence of the fact, shall lose and forfeit to the king's highness, his heirs and successors, for his first offence, the profit of such one of his spiritual benefices or promotions as it shall please the king's highness to assign or appoint, coming and arising in one whole year next after his conviction: and also that the same person so convicted shall for the same offence suffer imprisonment by the space of six months, without bail or mainprize. 273:... and if any such person once convicted of any offence concerning the premises, shall after his first conviction again offend and be thereof in form aforesaid lawfully convicted, that then the same person shall for his second offence suffer imprisonment by the space of one whole year, and also shall therefore be deprived ipso facto of all his promotions; and that it shall be lawful to all patrons, donors, and grantees of all and singular the same spiritual promotions, to present to the same any other able clerk, in like manner and form as though the party so offending were dead; ... 48: 241:... and that all and singular ministers in any cathedral or parish church or other place within this realm of England, Wales, Calais, and the marches of the same, or other the king's dominions, shall, from and after the feast of Pentecost next coming, be bound to say and use the Matins, Evensong, celebration of the Lord's Supper, commonly called the Mass, and administration of each of the sacraments, and all their common and open prayer, in such order and form as is mentioned in the said book, and none other or otherwise ... 1367: 1379: 1343: 1331: 328:... that it may be ordained and enacted by his majesty, with the assent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that all and singular person and persons that have offended concerning the premises, other than such person and persons as now be and remain in ward in the Tower of London, or in the Fleet, may be pardoned thereof; ... 1355: 287:
churches or private chapels or oratories, commonly called the service of the Church". The Act of Uniformity 1549 was the first act of its kind and was used to make religious worship across England and its territories consistent (i.e. uniform) at a time when the different branches of Christianity were pulling people in opposite directions, causing riots and crimes, particularly the
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Nothing in this act enforced attendance at public worship, but the provisions of the act apply to every kind of public worship or "open prayer", as it was called, which might take place. The act itself defines "open prayer" as "that prayer which is for others to come unto or near, either in common
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continued the major principles of 1549 in a rather different context and this later act was reaffirmed in 1706 as a prelude to the Act of Union which united England and Scotland under one parliament. However, most of the Act of Uniformity 1662 was repealed as part of the process of the removal of
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This section covers the following three points. England claimed many territories as its own with the phrase "or other of the king’s dominions". And that there was plenty of time for England's territories to become accustomed to these new laws giving them approximately one year to use the
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in January 1549 it was very controversial. Of the eighteen bishops present at the final vote, ten voted in favour and eight against. Hostility to this act and to the new prayer book led to rioting in some areas of the country, and a major uprising in
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A second offence added a year to the previous six months in prison, loss of livelihood, and any promotions and position would be given to another as if the miscreant had died. A third offence was the harshest, punished by life in prison:
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This provided loss of all income, which was forfeited to the Crown. Imprisonment "without bail or mainprize" meant one could not pay one's way out of prison, nor be given freedom until acquittal or the completion of the sentence.
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within England; the Act of Uniformity 1549 mandated that all English subjects move to that middle ground, so that they could put aside their differences.
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which had taken piecemeal steps towards the official introduction of Protestant doctrine and practice into England and Wales. It established the
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These words are printed against this act in the second column of Schedule 2 to the Statute Law Revision Act 1948, which is headed "Title".
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In this section, the words from "that all and singuler person" to "thereof: And" were repealed by section 1 of, and schedule 1 to, the
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In this section, the words from "forfeit to our" to "and shall" were repealed by section 10(2) of and Part III of schedule 3 to, the
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as the sole legal form of worship in England. Before 1549, the churches of England used various different versions of the
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The whole act, so far as unrepealed, except section 7, was repealed by section 1 of, and Part II of the schedule to, the
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Then follow penalties against those of the clergy that should substitute any other form of service, or shall not use the
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This section, from "and be it" to first "aforesaide", was repealed by section 1 of, and part I of the schedule to, the
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This section, from "and be it" to first "aforesaide", was repealed by section 1 of, and part I of the schedule to, the
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This section, from "and be it" to first "aforesaide", was repealed by section 1 of, and part I of the schedule to, the
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This section, from "and be it" to first "aforesaide", was repealed by section 1 of, and part I of the schedule to, the
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This section, from "and be it" to first "aforesaide", was repealed by section 1 of, and part I of the schedule to, the
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This section, from "be it" to "aforesaide that", was repealed by section 1 of, and part I of the schedule to, the
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In this section, the words "and be it enacted" were repealed by section 1 of, and part I of the schedule to, the
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This section, from "it is" to "aforesaide", was repealed by section 1 of, and part I of the schedule to, the
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This section, from "it is" to "aforesaide", was repealed by section 1 of, and Part I of the schedule to, the
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and the South West of England. They were resisted by Catholics on one side and radical reformers such as
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The words of commencement, wherever occurring, were repealed by section 1 of, and schedule 1 to, the
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The Act of Uniformity 1548 had been prepared by a committee chaired by the Archbishop of Canterbury,
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An Acte for the unyformytie of Service and Admynistracion of the Sacramentes throughout the Realme.
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The whole act, so far as unrepealed, was repealed by section 6(3) of, and Schedule 2 to, the
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religious discrimination in the 19th century and the revision of statute law in the 20th.
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An Act for Uniformity of Service and Administration of the Sacraments throughout the Realm
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This section was repealed by section 83(3) of, and Part III of Schedule 10 to, the
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and imposed penalties for unjustified absence from Sunday worship; repealed by the
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Digital Reproduction of the Original Act on the Parliamentary Archives catalogue
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This section was repealed by section 10(2) of and part I of schedule 3 to, the
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This section was repealed by section 87 of, and schedule 5 to, the
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to unify the country behind a single common practice of Faith.
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was far from just an English-language translation of the Latin
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was authorised by section 5 of, and Schedule 2 to, the
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Church of England (Worship and Doctrine) Measure 1974
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Index

Act of Uniformity 1549
Parliament of England
Long title
Citation
2 & 3 Edw. 6
Royal assent
Repealed by
Church of England (Worship and Doctrine) Measure 1974
Act of Uniformity 1552
Act of Uniformity 1558
act
Parliament of England
Edwardian Injunctions of 1547
Sacrament Act 1547
1549 version of the Book of Common Prayer
Latin
Missal
Book of Common Prayer
liturgical books
Thomas Cranmer
2 & 3 Edw. 6
Prayer Book Rebellion
faith
Thomas Cranmer
House of Lords
Cornwall
John Hooper
ex post facto law
Act of Uniformity 1552
prayer book of 1552

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