Documents of the English Reformation 1526-1701

Before the Break with Rome (1526-1534) :

1. Tyndale's Preface to the New Testament (1526), 1534

2. Tyndale's Preface to the Pentateuch, 1530

3. Act for the pardon of clergy, 1531 (22 Henry VIII, c.20)

4. The supplication of the Commons, 1532

5. The reply of the ordinaries, 1532

6. The submission of the clergy, 1532

7. Act for the conditional restraint of annates, 1532 (23 Henry VIII, c.20)

8. Act in restraint of appeals, 1533

9. Act for the submission of the clergy and restraint of appeals, 1534

10. Act restraining the payment of annates and concerning the election of bishops, 1534

11. The Ecclesiastical Licences Act, 1534

12. The abjuration of papal supremacy by the clergy, 1534

The Henrician Reformation (1534-1547) :

13. The Act of Supremacy, 1534

14. The Suffragan Bishops Act, 1534

15. The Wittenberg articles, 1536

16. The ten articles, 1536

17. The first Henrician injunctions, 1536

18. The second Henrician injunctions, 1538

19. The thirteen articles, with three additional articles, 1538

20. The Act of the Six Articles, 1539

21. Cranmer's Preface to the Great Bible, 1540

Cranmer's Reformation : the Reign of Edward VI (1547-1553) :

22. The Edwardian injunctions, 1547

23. The Sacrament Act, 1547

24. The Election of Bishops Act, 1547

25. The Act of Uniformity, 1549

26. The preface to the Book of common prayer, 1549

27. The preface to the ordinal, 1549

28. Act to take away all positive laws against the marriage of priests, 1549

29. The Act of Uniformity, 1552

30. The Forty-two articles, 1553 ; The Thirty-eight articles, 1563 ; The Thirty-nine articles, 1571

Reaction and Recovery (1553-1559) :

31. The Marian injunctions, 1554

32. The Act of Supremacy, 1559

33. The Act of Uniformity, 1559

34. The Elizabethan injunctions, 1559

35. The Eleven articles, 1559

The Progress of Protestantism (1560-1625) :

36. The preface to the Geneva Bible, 1560

37. The preface to Rheims New Testament, 1582

38. Archbishop Whitgift articles, 1583

39. The Lambeth Articles, 1595

40. The preface to the Douay Old Testament, 1609

41. The preface to the Authorized (King James) Version, 1611

42. The Irish Articles, 1615

43. The Canons of the Synod of Dort, 1619

The Protestant Schism and the Final Settlement (1625-1700) :

44. The king's declaration, 1628

45. The Solemn League and Covenant, 1643

46. The Westminster Confession of Faith, 1647

47. The Savoy Declaration, 1658

48. The Declaration of Breda, 1660

49. The Act of Uniformity, 1662

50. The preface to the Book of common prayer, 1662

51. The Test Act, 1673

52. The Toleration Act, 1689

53. The second London (Baptist) Confession of faith, 1689

54. The Act of Settlement, 1700

Supplementary Texts :

1. The first and second statutes of provisors, 1351 and 1390

2. The first statute of Praemunire, 1353

3. The second statute of Praemunire, 1393

4. The Augsburg Confession, 1530

Appendixes :

1. Sovereigns of England (1485-1714) and Archbishops of Canterbury (1486-1715)

2. Sovereigns by regnal years

3. Popes 1484-1721

4. Dates of Easter and Moveable Feasts 1485-1715

5. From the Augsburg Confession to the 39 Articles : a comparative table

6. From the 39 Articles to the Westminster Confession : a comparative table

7. The Westminster Confession and the 39 Articles directly compared

8.The Westminster Confession and its offspring compared