By Alec Ryrie
The final years of Henry VIII's lifestyles, 1539-47, have conventionally been obvious as a time while the king persecuted Protestants. This e-book argues that Henry's rules have been even more ambiguous; that he persevered to provide help to Protestantism and that many therefore additionally remained dependable to him. It additionally examines why the Protestants ultimately followed a extra radical, oppositional stance, and argues that English Protestantism's eventual identification was firm in the course of those years.
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First, that in the most blessed Sacrament of the Aulter, by the streng[t]he and efficacy of Christes myghtie worde, it beinge spoken by the prest, is present really, under the forme of bread and wyne, the naturall bodye and bloode of our Saviour 49 50 PRO SP 1/152 fo. 164r (LP XIV (i) 1272). The book was published the following year, once it had become clear that the Act was not going to be rigorously enforced (RSTC 21038). 51 LJ, 109. iv. fo. 140r (LP XIV (i) 1125). 28 II. III. IV. V. VI. The regime and the reformers Jesu Criste, conceyved of the Virgin Marie, and that after the consecracion there remayneth noe substance of breade or wyne, nor any other substance but the substance of Criste, God and man; Secondly, that Comunion in bothe kindes is not necessarie ad salutem by the lawe of God to all persons; .
8 Most surveys of the period summarise these events: see, for example, Haigh, English Reformations, 152–67. For a less polemical view, see Peter Marshall, Reformation England 1480–1642 (2003), chapter 2. 16 The regime and the reformers the state of Religion more and more decayed, during all the residue of the raygne of king Henry’. Such an unlikely alliance between Foxe and the modern revisionists might indicate that they must both be right. However, by following Foxe’s interpretation, the revisionists have made themselves heirs to a narrative which is seriously flawed.
Chapter 3 examines perhaps the most prominent and well-known group of evangelicals from the 1540s: those who fled to exile on the Continent. These exiles included some very prominent evangelical publicists, most of whom held decidedly radical views. I argue, however, that their impact on events and attitudes in England at the time was extremely limited, and that they cannot be taken as representative of the broader evangelical movement. Chapter 4 examines the other public face of reformism: the work of those evangelical preachers and authors who remained in England during this period.
