Documents of the English Reformation 1526-1701

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Gerald Lewis Bray
James Clarke & Co., 2004 - History - 675 pages
The Reformation period has long been seen as crucial in the development of the society and institutions of the English-speaking peoples, whilst the study of the Tudor and Stuart era stands at the heart of most courses in English history. But while the influence of the Book of Common Prayer and the King James Version of the Bible created the modern English language, there has been no collection of contemporary documents available to show how the momentous social and political changes took place. In his major and comprehensive collection, Gerald Bray has compiled a vast range of documents, covering the period of the English Reformation from 1526 to 1700. The book contains many texts that have been relatively inaccessible until now, along with others more widely known. In addition, the book provides a selection of highly informative appendixes, including comparative tables of the different articles and confessions, showing their mutual relationships and dependence. Containing fifty-eight documents covering all the main Statutes, Injunctions and Orders, Prefaces to prayer books, Biblical translations and other relevant texts, Documents of the English Reformation provides an invaluable resource for students, and a useful aidememoire for scholars in the fields of theology, the English Church, and late medieval and early modern English history.

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Contents

Introduction
9
Before the Break with Rome 15261534
15
Tyndales Preface to the New Testament 1526 1534
17
Tyndales Preface to the Pentateuch 1530
32
Act for the Pardon of Clergy 1531 22 Henry VIII c 20
51
The Reply of the Ordinaries 1532
57
The Submission of the Clergy 1532
71
Act for the Conditional Restraint of Annates 1532
72
The Preface to the Ordinal 1549
277
Act to take away all Positive Laws against the Marriage of Priests 1549
279
The Act of Uniformity 1552
281
The Fortytwo Articles 1553
284
Reaction and Recovery 15531559
313
The Marian Injunctions 1554
315
The Act of Supremacy 1559
318
The Act of Uniformity 1559
329

Act in Restraint of Appeals 1533
78
Act for the Submission of the Clergy and Restraint of Appeals 1534
84
Act Restraining the Payment of Annates and Concerning the Election of Bishops 1534
88
The Ecclesiastical Licenses Act 1534
94
The Abjuration of Papal Supremacy by the Clergy 1534
109
The Henrician Reformation 15341547
111
The Act of Supremacy 1534
113
The Suffragan Bishops Act 1534
115
The Wittenberg Articles 1536
118
The Ten Articles 1536
162
The First Henrician Injunctions 1536
175
The Second Henrician Injunctions 1538
179
The Thirteen Articles with Three Additional Articles 1538
184
The Act of the Six Articles 1539
222
Cranmers Preface to the Great Bible 1540
233
The Reign of Edward VI 15471553
245
The Edwardian Injunctions 1547
247
The Sacrament Act 1547
258
The Election of Bishops Act 1547
263
The Act of Uniformity 1549
266
The Preface to the Book of Common Prayer 1549
272
The Elizabethan Injunctions 1559
335
The Eleven Articles 1559
349
The Progress of Protestantism 15601625
353
The Preface to the Geneva Bible 1560
355
The Preface to the Rheims New Testament 1582
364
Archbishop Whitgifts Articles 1583
397
The Lambeth Articles 1595
399
The Preface to the Douay Old Testament 1609
401
The Preface to the Authorized King James Version 1611
413
The Irish Articles 1615
437
The Canons of the Synod of Dort 1619
453
The Protestant Schism and the Final Settlement 16251701
479
The Kings Declaration 1628
481
The Solemn League and Covenant 1643
483
The Westminster Confession of Faith 1647
486
The Savoy Declaration 1658
521
The Declaration of Breda 1660
544
The Act of Uniformity 1662
546
The Preface to the Book of Common Prayer 1662
560
The Test Act 1673
563
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