A DESCRIPTION OF A SET OF PRINTS OF English History; CONTAINED IN A SET OF EASY LESSONS. By Mrs. TRIMMER. PART II. London: PRINTED FOR BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY, N. HAILES, JUVENILE LIBRARY, ONDON MUSEUM, PICCADILLY; 140, FLEET STREET; FROM ALDERMARY CHURCH-YARD. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY FROM THE FAMILY OF Printed by T. C. HANSARD, Peterborough-court, Fleet-street, London. A DESCRIPTION, &c. [N° XLI.] A Committee of Bishops and Divines, composing the Liturgy of the Church of England. EDWARD VI. THIS prince was little more than nine ears old when his father died. Henry by is will appointed sixteen executors, to whom intrusted the government during his (a 2) ond PART II. son's minority. To these he added counsellors, to whom he gave no but they were to assist with the vice. The executors soon after ch earl of Hertford protector: this no was by the mother's side uncle to the he was soon after created earl of So marshal, and lord treasurer; and thesley, the chancellor, was made Southampton: these two noblemen along been of different parties, and set soon contrived to remove Southa from his post, and exclude him from with the other executors. The protector had for some tim secretly a partizan of the reformatio as soon as he was established in his rity, he scrupled not to discover his tion of overturning the ancient ro He took care that all who were con in the education of the king should be of the same principles with himself, and the young monarch discovered a zeal for every kind of literature, far beyond his years, particularly for theology; and the Romish religion rapidly declined in the kingdom. The person who made most opposition to the reformation was Gardiner, bishop of Winchester. The protector in all his schemes for reformation, had recourse to Cranmer, who was a man of prudence and moderation. The protector endeavoured to unite the two kingdoms of England and Scotland, by means of a marriage between the king and the young queen of Scots; but the queen dowager, and the clergy of Scotland, were averse to an alliance with a nation which had departed from the ancient principles of religion, and shortly after they |