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Item #75002 A Table to All the Statutes [with] Anno Secundo et Tertio Edvardi. Great Britain, Edward VI.
A Table to All the Statutes [with] Anno Secundo et Tertio Edvardi...
A Table to All the Statutes [with] Anno Secundo et Tertio Edvardi...
A Table to All the Statutes [with] Anno Secundo et Tertio Edvardi...

A Table to All the Statutes [with] Anno Secundo et Tertio Edvardi...

Edward VI's Protestant Reforms [Great Britain]. Edward VI [1537-1553], King of England. A Table to All the Statutes Made in the Tyme of the Most Victorious Reigne of Kynge Edward the Sixte. London: In aedibus Thomae Bertheleti aeno verbi incarnati, 1553. [8] pp. [Bound with] Edward VI, King of England. Anno Secundo et Tertio Eduardi Sexti. Actes Made in the Session of this Present Parlament, Holden Upon Prorogation at Westminster, The Fourthe Day of November, In the Seconde Yere of Our Most Drad Sovereigne Lorde, Edward the .VI. By the Grace of God, Kyng of England, Fraunce, And Irelande, Defendour of the Faythe, And of the Church of Englande, And Also of Irelande, In Earth the Supreme Head: And There Continued and Kept to the .xiiii. Day of Marche, In the .III. Yere of Our Said Sovereigne Lorde, As Foloweth. [[London]: Richardus Graftonus [i.e. Richard Tottell?], Typographus Regius excudebat, 1552 [i.e. 1557?]]. lxvi [i.e. lxviii] ff. [And] Edward VI, King of England. Anno. III & IIII. Edwardi Sexti.... [London: Imprinted...by Richard Grafton [i.e. Richard Tottell?], 1553 [i.e. 1560?]]. xxix-xxxii ff. [ONLY]. Folio (11" x 7-1/2"). Later (nineteenth-century) pebbled cloth, fragment of paper label to spine. Light rubbing and minor soiling to boards, moderate rubbing and light fading to extremities, rear joint starting at ends, small holes at ends of front joint, spine ends and corners bumped and lightly worn, later armorial bookplate (of Edwin Freshfield) to front pastedown. Moderate toning to interior, light soiling in a few places, several small wormholes to text block of the Table and minor worming to a few leaves of Anno Secundo et Tertio, no loss to legibility, small pencil and ink annotations to title page of Table. $2,000. * Table: only edition; Anno Secundo et Tertio: later edition. 39 public acts passed under Edward VI in 1548-1549. Some of the more interesting acts involve significant Protestant reforms to the English Church, including the Act of Uniformity, which established the Book of Common Prayer as the sole form of legal worship in England. Also included is the Clergy Marriage Act, which abolished the prohibition on marriage for priests in the Church of England. The Table is a separately printed index encompassing all of Edward's reign and inten.

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