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| 1 | 1530 | - 1530: First Visitation of the Heralds of Arms
Heralds' county visits to investigate the claims to the right to arms of residents. The visitations occurred every 13 years up to and including 1688. Many have been published.
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| 2 | 1534 | - 1534: Act of Supremacy
This Act by Henry VIII ended the Pope's formal authority in England and led to the establishment of the Anglican Church of England. An oath was tendered to all men over the age of 14 and required the swearer to assert that the children of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn were rightful heirs to the throne.
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| 3 | 1536 | - 1536: Dissolution of Monasteries
Dissolution of the smaller monasteries is enacted.
- Oct 1536—Jan 1537: Pilgrimage of Grace
A major Tudor rebellion primarily occurring in the 6 northern counties of England against the policies and Ministers of Henry VIII. Discontent of the populace toward religious and secular issues, such as "that no infant shall receive the blessed Sacrament of Baptisme bott onlesse an trybette be payd to the king" and the dissolution of the monasteries.
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| 4 | 1537 | - 1537: Monasteries
Suppression of the larger monasteries is commenced.
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| 5 | 1538 | - 1538: Friaries Dissolved
Dissolution of the friaries is commenced.
- 5 Sep 1538: Keeping of Parish Registers
Injunctions dellivered to every parish in England and Wales, ordering the parson to enter every Sunday in the presence of the wardens, or one of them, all the baptisms, marriages, and burials of the previous week with the day and year of the event, in a book which was to be kept in a two-locked coffer, under pain of a fine of 35. 4d., to be applied to the repair of the Church.
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| 6 | 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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| 7 | 1550s | - 1550s: Independents
Separatists, later Independents, formed by Robert Brown.
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| 8 | 1553 | - 1553: Roman Catholicism
Temporary return to Roman Catholicism under Mary Tudor
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| 9 | 1554 | - 1554: Protestantism
Widespread revolts in support of Protestantism erupt.
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| 10 | 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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| 11 | 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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| 12 | 1558 | - 1558: Anglican Church of England
Elizabeth I formally endorsed Anglican Church of England. Taxes, fines, punishments introduced for dissenters.
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| 13 | 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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| 14 | 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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| 15 | 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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