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Essay on Edward VI, Mary Tudor and Queen Elizabeth
When Edward VI came to the throne, the "superstitions" that displeased the radicals were removed from churches across the country. There were religious aims in heading towards Protestantism, however Somerset was not sufficiently interested in theology to be concerned in different interpretations of images or words and so on.
The 1547 Act for the Dissolution of the Chantries could been seen as having religious aims as the chantries were dissolved on the grounds that they were superstitious. However, promises to reallocate the money and so on were broken. It is very likely that there was a main economic aim behind the dissolution as the money taken from the chantries could be used by the crown to fund other areas such as foreign policy.The First Act of Uniformity was passed two years later with the religious aim to clear up religious confusion. The new Prayer Book was also enforced by the Act. On a more political side, the Act went a long way to saying that religion was controlled by the monarch and Parliament rather than the monarch alone - Edwardian Protestantism was carried through by Statute.
Should the Prayer Book and the changes in it have intended to have a great religious impact, they would have come up against the insensitivity of the laity to theological discussion - they placed "most emphasis on the radical change from Latin to English" (Smith. 21).The Treason Act that followed in 1552 combined a religious aim for doctrinal uniformity with the political intention to ensure that the country accepted the power of the monarch and his successors. In the same year, the Second Act of Uniformity was passed. It again had religious motives for uniformity through ways such as making attendance at Sunday church services compulsory......
