History Today, November 1st, 1994
The re-Catholicisation of England under Mary Tudor has traditionally been perceived as an abject failure, a mere hiccup in the nation's triumphant - and inevitable - progress towards |true religion', that is, Protestantism. Mary's restoration, after all, survived her death by no more than a few months, Elizabeth's first parliament seeing the immediate return of the royal supremacy and of the Edwardian Prayer Book.
However, recent work on the parliamentary history of the 1559 Church Settlement has suggested that the reinstatement of Protestantism on Mary's death was the result of events at c...
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