Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

Above: Portrait of Queen Elizabeth After the death of Queen Mary in 1558 {chap, vii.) her half-sister, Elizabeth, succeeded, as already mentioned, to the English Crown. Elizabeth was as great a champion of the Reformation as Mary had been of Catholicism. Of religious zeal she herself had little or none, but she desired ecclesiastical uniformity [...]

Meanwhile, however, the Reformed doctrines were making no progress, and this, in the opinion of those who ruled in the young King’s name, was a matter of vital importance. In February 1551 the Deputy received positive orders to introduce into Ireland the new Liturgy, which ” we have to be translated into our mother-tongue of [...]