History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . e churchservices must have sadlyshocked a great part of theEnglish people, who had beenaccustomed to watch with aweand expectancy the variousacts associated with the manychurch ceremonies and festi-vals. Earnest men who de-plored the misrule of thosewho conducted Edwards gov-ernment in the name ofProtestantism must have con-cluded that the reformerswere chiefly intent upon ad-vancing their own interests by plundering the Church. We getsome idea of the desecrations of the time from the fact that Ed-ward was for
History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . e churchservices must have sadlyshocked a great part of theEnglish people, who had beenaccustomed to watch with aweand expectancy the variousacts associated with the manychurch ceremonies and festi-vals. Earnest men who de-plored the misrule of thosewho conducted Edwards gov-ernment in the name ofProtestantism must have con-cluded that the reformerswere chiefly intent upon ad-vancing their own interests by plundering the Church. We getsome idea of the desecrations of the time from the fact that Ed-ward was forced to forbid quarreling and shooting in churches and the bringing of horses and mules through the same, makingGods house like a stable or common inn. Although many wereheartjly in favor of the recent changes, it is no wonder that afterEdwards death there was a revulsion in favor of the old religion. 770. Queen Mary (isss-isss) and the Catholic VI was succeeded in 1553 by his half sister Mary, the•daughter of Catherine, who had been brought up in the Catholic. Fig. 135. Edward VI. (ByHolbein) This interesting sketch was made before Edward became king; he could have been scarcely six years old, as Holbein died in 1543 53° History of Europe faith and held firmly to it. Her ardent hope of bringing her king-dom back once more to her religion did not seem altogether ill-founded, for the majority of the people were still Catholics atheart, and many who were not Catholics disapproved of the policy of Edwards ministers,who had removedabuses in the devilsown way, by breakingin pieces. The Catholic causeappeared, moreover, tobe strengthened byMarys marriage withthe Spanish prince,Philip II, the son ofthe orthodox Charles although Philiplater distinguished him-self, as we shall see, bythe merciless way inwhich he strove to putdown heresy within hisrealms, he never gainedany great influence inEngland. By his mar-riage with Mary he ac-quired the title of king,but
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