The Crisis Over Succession 1553

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1.4 - The Crisis Over Succession, 1553

ATTEMPTS TO BYPASS MARY

  • Act of Succession 1536 - made Mary and Liz illegitimate

  • 1544 - Mary and Liz legitimate again

  • Made Lady Jane Grey successor - Northumberland’s Prot daughter-in-law

  • If Mary succeeded - make country Catholic or marry foreign power & take new policies

  • Devyse - allowed Jane to succeed Ed

  • Letters Patent

  • Legal document, never got through Parliament

  • Disallowed Mary or Liz to succeed Ed

  • Privy Council supported Ed’s Devyse

  • Household officials,

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