. Historical portraits ... southern Scotland and sacked Edinburgh. Nextyear he valiantly defended Boulogne against a French attempt atrecapture, and six months afterwards he was again raiding in forcebeyond the Scottish border. In the last months of Henrys reignhis influence finally triumphed over that of his rivals the Howards,and this came to mean the triumph of the Protestant cause againstCatholic reaction. Hertford and Paget seem to have received, on28th January, 1547, the dying commands of King Henry, and thoughthat monarchs will had provided for a Council of sixteen togovern during his s
. Historical portraits ... southern Scotland and sacked Edinburgh. Nextyear he valiantly defended Boulogne against a French attempt atrecapture, and six months afterwards he was again raiding in forcebeyond the Scottish border. In the last months of Henrys reignhis influence finally triumphed over that of his rivals the Howards,and this came to mean the triumph of the Protestant cause againstCatholic reaction. Hertford and Paget seem to have received, on28th January, 1547, the dying commands of King Henry, and thoughthat monarchs will had provided for a Council of sixteen togovern during his sons minority, they set it aside, got possessionof the person of Edward VI, and, overcoming all opposition inthe Council, contrived to have Hertford declared Protector. A fewdays later he made himself Duke of Somerset. Whether or notHenry VIII had intended the Anglo-Catholic settlement of 1539to endure, Somerset resolved at once to set it aside, and to makeEngland a Protestant country. In much of this, though not in all of. EDWARD SEYMOUR, DUKE OF SOMERSETFrom a portrait by Holbein in the possession of the Duke of Northumberland, KG. Face p. 52 EDWARD SEYMOUR, DUKE OF SOMERSET 53 it, he seems to have carried Cranmer with him, but his wholesalespoliation of Church property, and his commission for the removal ofimages and pictures and for the whitewashing of churches was byno means to the Archbishops taste; and while in doctrine Somersetleaned to the theology of Calvin, Cranmer was more inclined to beLutheran. The first Prayer Book of 1549 probably did not go farenough in doctrine to please the Protector. Both he and theArchbishop were, however, averse to persecution, and Somersetszeal for mercy and toleration, his genuine pity for the poor, whosecause he espoused against the greedy grantees of Abbey lands,were very remarkable in an age of blood and iron. No hereticssuffered death during his period of power, and he procured fromParliament the repeal of many of Henrys savage Treaso
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