During King Edward VI’s brief years England saw the Six Articles repealed, priests allowed to marry, and the old Latin service of worship replaced by Thomas Cranmer’s Book of Common Prayer in English. Under King Charles I and with the assistance of the Anglican Archbishop William Laud, the King insisted that worship in England be conducted according to the Prayer Book and no other. When Charles tried to force his brand of high-church on the Scots, John Milton called The Book of Common Prayer "the skeleton of a Mass-book."
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