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 1543 - 1600 (~ 56 years)
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| 1 | 1547 | - 1547: Keeping of Parish Registers
Edward VI, reissued in 1547 the registration injunctions of Cromwell almost word for word, with the exception that the fine of 33. 4d. for neglect, was to be assigned to the "poore mens box of that parishe." In the same year one of the visitation articles of the diocese of Canterbury was "Whether they have one Book or Register safely kept, wherein they write the day of every Wedding, Christening, and Burying."
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| 2 | 1550s | - 1550s: Independents
Separatists, later Independents, formed by Robert Brown.
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| 3 | 1553 | - 1553: Roman Catholicism
Temporary return to Roman Catholicism under Mary Tudor
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| 4 | 1554 | - 1554: Protestantism
Widespread revolts in support of Protestantism erupt.
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| 5 | 1555 | - 4 Jan 1555: Parliament's Grand Bill
This Bill restores the Catholic situation as it existed prior to 1529 but preserves the rights of Elizabeth to worship as she sees fit. Widespread persecution of Protestants included the execution of deprived churchmen and those adhering to the Protestant faith. Cardinal Pole directed that the Bishops in their visitations were to inquire, "If the parish priest had a Register with the names of those who were baptized, of the sponsors, of the married, and the dead."
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| 6 | 1557 | - 1557: Cardinal Pole's Articles
Cardinal Pole enquired of the clergy "Whether they do keep the Book or Register of Christenings, Buryings, and Marriages, with the name of the Godfather and Godmother."
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| 7 | 1558 | - 1558: Anglican Church of England
Elizabeth I formally endorsed Anglican Church of England. Taxes, fines, punishments introduced for dissenters.
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| 8 | 1559 | - 1559: Oath of Supremacy
By the Second Act of Supremacy enacted during the first years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth all beneficied clergy and crown officials were bound to swear an oath against papal authority on penalty of death. The registration injunctions were also again issued in almost the identical phraseology used under Henry VIII and Edward VI, with the slight alteration that the defaulting penalty was to be divided equally between the poor and the repair of the church.
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| 9 | 1560 | - 1560: Presbyterians
Founded by John Knox through his "Confession of Faith", provided the basis for the Church of Scotland. John Knox had been fiercely antagonistic toward Mary, Queen of Scots after her ascension to the throne.
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| 10 | 1584 | - 1584: Instrument of Association
The murder of William of Orange and the uncovering of the Throckmorton plot by Francis Throckmorton, a nephew of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I led to the drawing up of an 'Instrument of Association' binding those taking it to give their 'lyves, landes and goodes' in defence of the Queen.
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| 11 | 1597 | - 25 Oct 1597: Constitution of Convocation
of the archbishop, bishops, and clergy of the province of Canterbury, and approved by the Queen under the great seal of Great Britain, directed the more careful keeping of parochial registers, which were pronounced to be of the greatest utility (permagnus usus). The registers were for the future to be kept on parchment, and parchment copies were to be made of those old registers which were on paper. For the prevention of guile or negligence in the keeping of the registers, it was enacted that the whole of the entries of the previous week were to be read out openly and distinctly by the minister on Sunday, at the conclusion of either mattins or evensong. The names of the minister and wardens were to be appended to every page of the register on its completion. Lastly it was ordained that a copy of the parish register was to be sent by the warden annually within a month after Easter, without any fee, to the diocesan register, and there to be kept faithfully among the episcopal archives. Unfortunately, these "Bishops' Transcripts," were fitfully and slovenly kept in many places.
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