Documents of the English Reformation
Published on 31. January 2019
630 pages
978-0-227-90688-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Reformation era has long been seen as crucial in developing the institutions and society of the English-speaking peoples, and study of the Tudor and Stuart era is at the heart of most courses in English history. The influence of the Book of Common Prayer and the King James version of the Bible created the modern English language, but until the publication of Gerald Bray''s Documents of the English Reformation there had been no collection of contemporary documents available to show how these momentous social and political changes took place. This comprehensive collection covers the period from 1526 to 1700 and contains many texts previously relatively inaccessible, along with others more widely known. The book also provides informative appendixes, including comparative tables of the different articles and confessions, showing their mutual relationships and dependence. With fifty-eight documents covering all the main Statutes, Injunctions and Orders, Prefaces to prayer books, Biblical translations and other relevant texts, this third edition of Documents of the English R
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Content
- Cover
- Book Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction to the Third Edition
- Before the Break with Rome (1526-1534)
- 01. Tyndale's Preface to the New Testament (1526), 1534
- 02. Tyndale's Preface to the Pentateuch, 1530
- 03. Act for the Pardon of Clergy, 1531 (22 Henry VIII, c.20)
- 04. The Supplication of the Commons, 1532
- 05. The Reply of the Ordinaries, 1532
- 06. The Submission of the Clergy, 1532
- 07. Act for the Conditional Restraint of Annates, 1532 (23 Henry VIII, c.20)
- 08. Act in Restraint of Appeals, 1533 (24 Henry VIII, c. 12)
- 09. Act for the Submission of the Clergy and Restraint of Appeals, 1534 (25 Henry VIII, c. 19)
- 10. Act Restraining the Payment of Annates and Concerning the Election of Bishops, 1534 (25 Henry VIII, c. 20)
- 11. The Ecclesiastical Licenses Act, 1534 (25 Henry VIII, c. 21)
- 12. The Abjuration of Papal Supremacy by the Clergy, 1534
- The Henrician Reformation (1534-1547)
- 13. The Act of Supremacy, 1534 (26 Henry VIII c.1)
- 14. The Suff ragan Bishops Act, 1534 (26 Henry VIII, c. 14)
- 15. The Wittenberg Articles, 1536
- 16. The Ten Articles, 1536
- 17. The First Henrician Injunctions, 1536
- 18. The Second Henrician Injunctions, 1538
- 19. The Thirteen Articles, with Three Additional Articles, 1538
- 20. The Act of the Six Articles, 1539
- 21. Cranmer's Preface to the Great Bible, 1540
- Cranmer's Reformation: The Reign of Edward VI (1547-1553)
- 22. The Edwardian Injunctions, 1547
- 23. The Sacrament Act, 1547 (1 Edward VI c.1)
- 24. The Election of Bishops Act, 1547 (1 Edward VI, c. 2)
- 25. The Act of Uniformity, 1549 (2-3 Edward VI c. 1)
- 26. The Preface to the Book of Common Prayer, 1549
- 27. The Preface to the Ordinal, 1549
- 28. Act to take away all Positive Laws against the Marriage of Priests, 1549 (2-3 Edward VI, c. 21)
- 29. The Act of Uniformity, 1552 (5-6 Edward VI c. 1)
- 30. The Forty-two Articles, 1553 The Thirty-eight Articles, 1563 The Thirty-nine Articles, 1571
- Reaction and Recovery (1553-1559)
- 31. The Marian Injunctions, 1554
- 32. The Act of Supremacy, 1559 (1 Elizabeth I, c.1)
- 33. The Act of Uniformity, 1559 (1 Elizabeth I, c.2)
- 34. The Elizabethan Injunctions, 1559
- 35. The Eleven Articles, 1559
- The Progress of Protestantism (1560-1625)
- 36. The Preface to the Geneva Bible, 1560
- 37. The Preface to the Rheims New Testament, 1582
- 38. Archbishop Whitgift's Articles, 1583
- 39. The Lambeth Articles, 1595
- 40. The Preface to the Douay Old Testament, 1609
- 41. The Preface to the Authorized (King James) Version, 1611
- 42. The Irish Articles, 1615
- 43. The Canons of the Synod of Dort, 1619
- The Protestant Schism and the Final Settlement (1625-1701)
- 44. The King's Declaration, 1628
- 45. The Solemn League and Covenant, 1643
- 46. The Westminster Confession of Faith, 1647
- 47. The Savoy Declaration, 1658
- 48. The Declaration of Breda, 1660
- 49. The Act of Uniformity, 1662 (14 Charles II, c.4)
- 50. The Preface to the Book of Common Prayer, 1662
- 51. The Test Act, 1673 (25 Charles II c.2)
- 52. The Toleration Act, 1689 (1 William III and Mary II, c.18)
- 53. The Second London (Baptist) Confession of Faith, 1689
- 54. The Act of Settlement, 1701 (12-13 William III, c.2)
- Supplementary Texts
- 01. The First and Second Statutes of Provisors, 1351 and 1390 (25 Edward III, s. 5 and 13 Richard II, s. 2)
- 02. The First Statute of Praemunire, 1353 (27 Edward III, s.1)
- 03. The Second Statute of Praemunire, 1393 (16 Richard II, c.5)
- 04. The Augsburg Confession, 1530
- Appendixes
- 01. Sovereigns of England (1485-1714) and Archbishops of Canterbury (1486-1715)
- 02. Sovereigns by Regnal Years
- 03. Popes 1484-1721
- 04. Dates of Easter and Moveable Feasts 1485-1715
- 05. From the Augsburg Confession to the 39 Articles: A Comparative Table
- 06. From the 39 Articles to the Westminster Confession: A Comparative Table
- 07. The Westminster Confession and the 39 Articles directly compared
- 08. The Westminster Confession and its Off spring compared
- Notes
- Index
- Back Cover
