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Hampton Court, only legitimate son of Henry VIII.
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His uncle, Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, establishes himself as Protector. Somerset and the Archbishop of Canterbury (Thomas Cranmer) wanted to make England Protestant.
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makes Roman Catholic mass illegal; clergy ordered to remove icons and statues of the saints, and whitewash over wall paintings. Service must be in English, not Latin.
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Kett's Rebellion in Norfolk was focused on economic and social injustices, supressed by John Dudley, Earl of Warwick. Dudley used this to bring down Somerset, who was arrested and later executed. Although Dudley, later duke of Northumberland, never took the title of protector, he acted as if he were.
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Parliament passed laws that would speed up the removal of images in churches and enforce the use of new versions of the service book
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replaced the Book of Common Prayer authorised by the Act of Uniformity 1549 with a revised and more clearly Protestant version. If this book wasn't used was arrested - 6 months for a first offence, a year for a second, and life for a 3rd.
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It became clear he suffered from TB and wouldn't live long - in order to keep his reforms, Northumberland persuaded him to declare Mary illigitimate and declare Lady Jane Grey his heir.