Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Anglican Church
Connections
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Wealth and Poverty | Barbara Blaugdone | BB
was fined the huge sum of £280 for non-attendance at the Church of England
services in her parish. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Joan Vokins | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Locke | AL
's title-page quotes from Saint Paul
's Epistle to the Romans: The spirit beareth witnesse to our spirit that wee are the sons of God . . . . The sentence goes on... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anthony Trollope | AT
's comedy lightens his critique both of the Anglican Church
and of the reform movement within it. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. 660 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Warren | EW
sets out here is to defend Anglican
clergymen of Presbyterian
sympathies, who were currently under attack from more more extreme reformers, and in general to defend the need for a highly educated body of... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Plumptre | Again a number of poets are quoted as chapter-headings; this time they include at least one woman, Anna Seward
. As to plot, this novel has been categorized as a prototypical forerunner of the thriller... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jean Ingelow | This novel explores the breach between Anglicans and Evangelicals within the Church of England
. Peters, Maureen. Jean Ingelow: Victorian Poetess. Boydell. 48 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Maria Hall | This novel is set in France, England, and Ireland. The action occurs in the seventeenth century as a Huguenot girl escapes oppression in France by fleeing to England and then Ireland... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriett Jay | Madge Dunraven also differs widely in its presentation of Catholicism
both from HJ
's first and second novels. Along with her positive portrait of Irish philanthropy, she presents Catholic characters as living their religion, while... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriett Mozley | Her letters, on the evidence of those included in Dorothea Mozley
's Newman Family Letters (published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
in 1962), are highly intelligent and entertaining. As a girl she rattles... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Avery | Avery writes with great authority, from her opening salvo: Antichrist the spirit of Errour doth reside in the flesh more than ever. Avery, Elizabeth. Scripture-Prophecies Opened. Giles Calvert. 1 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ellen Wood | Having Cyras seek his fortune in New Zealand gives EW
occasion to comment on the apparent vulgarity of the English born in the colonies. When he goes to the Haymarket Theatre
with one such woman... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Hannah More | Through light-hearted irony, the poem eulogises human progress. Edmund Bonner
, Bishop of London under Queen Mary
, had been an ardent burner of Protestant heretics. In the poem his ghost laments the Reformation of... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Willa Muir | She compares the parallel stories of the English Reformation under King Henry VIII
, which established the Church of England
(Anglican or Episcopalian), and the Scottish Reformation under John Knox
in 1559, which established the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Christina Rossetti | The volume, dedicated to her mother
and taking from James Montgomery
its epigraph—A day's march nearer home— Rossetti, Christina. Time Flies. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; E. and J. B. Young. title page |
Timeline
1527: A young English priest, Thomas Cranmer, wrote...
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1527
A young English priest, Thomas Cranmer
, wrote two letters to Johannes Dantiscus
, whom he had met on a royal mission to the Holy Roman Emperor in Spain, where Dantiscus was then Polish ambassador.
November 1534: The Act of Supremacy declared the monarch,...
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November 1534
The Act of Supremacy declared the monarch, not the Pope
, head of the Church of England.
October 1536: The Pilgrimage of Grace, a major armed rebellion...
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October 1536
The Pilgrimage of Grace, a major armed rebellion against Henry VIII
's religious reforms and dissolution of monasteries and convents (in effect, against the birth of the Church of England
), spread across the...
Late 1552: Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury...
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Late 1552
Thomas Cranmer
, Archbishop of Canterbury under Edward VI
, produced an Anglican
revised Book of Common Prayer.
1559: Negotiating between opposing factions, Elizabeth...
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1559
Negotiating between opposing factions, Elizabeth I
sought to establish the English Church under her headship; Thomas Cranmer
's Prayer Book of 1552 became the official Book of Common Prayer.
1563: Convocation of the Church of England drew...
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1563
Convocation of the Church of England
drew up the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, as a statement of what it is necessary for an Anglican to believe.
August 1598: Full-scale revolt against English rule (that...
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August 1598
Full-scale revolt against English rule (that is, rule over the Roman Catholic Church
majority by a newly-settled Anglican
elite) broke out in Ireland in the form of Tyrone's Rebellion, led by Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone
.
16 January 1604: One year into his reign in England, King...
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16 January 1604
One year into his reign in England, King James I
received a petitionthat there might bee a newe translation of the Bible to improve on existing, imperfect English versions.
2 May 1611: A committee of bishops completed and issued...
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2 May 1611
A committee of bishops
completed and issued the English Bibletranslation generally called either the King James Bible (in North America) or the Authorised Version (in Britain).
April 1637: Alexander Henderson of Leuchars, a godly...
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April 1637
Alexander Henderson
of Leuchars, a godly leader of the Scottish Kirk
, held a secret meeting with a group of Edinburgh matrons to enlist their aid in resistance against the imposition of the new (...
23 July 1637: The Anglican Book of Common Prayer was used...
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23 July 1637
The AnglicanBook of Common Prayer was used for the first time, according to Charles I
's order, at St Giles's Church in Edinburgh, the centre of the Scottish (Presbyterian
) Church.
28 February 1638: At Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotsmen...
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28 February 1638
At Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotsmen opposed to Charles I
's imposition of the AnglicanBook of Common Prayer on the Scottish (Presbyterian
) Church signed a National Covenant against such innovations: in...
27 March-June 1639: Charles I made war on the Scottish Covenanters,...
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27 March-June 1639
20 August 1640: The Scots (provoked by Charles I's imposition...
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20 August 1640
The Scots (provoked by Charles I
's imposition of the AnglicanBook of Common Prayer on the Scottish Presbyterian
Church in 1637) invaded England, and for the second time in eighteen months their monarch marched against them.
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