RT Article
T1 The Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticarum of 1552 and the Furthering of Discipline in England
JF Church history
VO 39
IS 2
SP 162
OP 171
A1 Spalding, James C
LA English
PB Cambridge Univ. Press
YR 1970
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1779559453
AB In November, 1549, at the beginning of the third session of King Edward VI's first parliament, legislation was introduced intending to facilitate the reformation of the ecclesiastical laws of England. In the House of Lords, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer and others submitted a bill “touching Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction” which would have given the bishops and their ordinaries the power to excommunicate and to imprison those who were in need of discipline in order to help tidy up what was regarded then to be an immoral and disorderly nation. This bill passed the House of Lords and was sent down to the House of Commons for consideration.
DO 10.2307/3163384