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The
Act of Uniformity in 1559 set the order of
prayer to be used in the English
Book of Common Prayer. Every man had to go to church once a week or be fined 12 pence (equivalent to just over £11 in 2007 ), a considerable sum for the poor. With this act
Elizabeth I made it a legal obligation to go to church every Sunday. The 'Act of Uniformity' reinforced the Book of Common Prayer. After passage, fourteen
bishops were dismissed from their sees, and all the other sees, except
Llandaff, were at the time vacant. As it was time to appoint a new Archbishop of Canterbury, the question of how to obtain consecration and preserve the
Apostolic Succession unbroken arose. Llandaff refused to officiate at
Matthew Parker's consecration and the solution would give rise many years later to the
Nag's Head Fable.
The act made up part of the
Elizabethan Religious Settlement in England instituted by
Elizabeth I who wanted to unify the Anglican Church. Other acts concerned with this settlement were the
Act of Supremacy 1559 and the
Thirty-Nine Articles (
1563). Elizabeth was trying to achieve a settlement after thirty years of turmoil during the reigns of
Henry VIII,
Edward VI and
Mary I, in which England had swung from
Catholicism to
Protestantism and back to Catholicism again. The outcome of the Elizabethan Settlement has been a sometimes tense and often fragile union of both Catholic and Protestant wings of the Church of England and Anglicanism world wide. The event was featured, albeit only briefly, in the movie
Elizabeth.
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