Medieval and modern times; an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . tie. 83. Edward VJ, by Holbein This interesting sketch was made before Pdward became king, and hecould have been scarcely six years old, as Holbein died in 1543 was destroyed, because it often represented saints and king was to appoint bishops without troubling to observethe old forms of election, and Protestants began to be put intothe high offices of the Church. Parliament turned over to theking the funds which had been established for the purp


Medieval and modern times; an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . tie. 83. Edward VJ, by Holbein This interesting sketch was made before Pdward became king, and hecould have been scarcely six years old, as Holbein died in 1543 was destroyed, because it often represented saints and king was to appoint bishops without troubling to observethe old forms of election, and Protestants began to be put intothe high offices of the Church. Parliament turned over to theking the funds which had been established for the purpose ofhaving masses chanted for the dead, and decreed that thereafterthe clergy should be free to marry. A prayer book in English was prepared under the auspicesof Parliament, not very unlike that used in the Church of 322 Medieval iitiJ Modern Times The prayer England to-day (see Mow. p, 345). Moreover, forty two articles ^innvNinc of faith were drawn up by the government, which were to Articles jje th0 standard of belief for the country, These, in the time of Queen Elizabeth, were revised and reduced to the famous. Fig, 84. Queen Mary, by Antonio Moro This lifelike portrait, in the Madrid collection, is by a favorite painterof Philip II, Marys husband (see Fig. Sj). It was painted about 1531,and one gets the same impressions of Marys character from the por-trait that one does from reading about her. Moro had Holbeins skill in painting faces Thirty-Nine Articles, which still constitute the creed o\ theChurch of England. The changes in the church services must have sadly shockeda great part of the English people, who had been accustomedto watch with awe and expectancy the various aets associated /rotesta?tt Revolt in Switzerland and England 323 with the many church ceremonies and festivals. Earnest men Protestant-vvho deplored the policy of those who conducted Edwards dSJ^Sed^government in the name of Protestantism must have eoneluded bX jrdwarcJs 0 ministers that the reformers


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