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manner, was an abbreviated form of vespers and
compline.
It could be no matter of surprise that the issue of
this book caused a great sensation. It was followed
by insurrections in different parts of the kingdom,
the most serious of which were in Norfolk and
Devon. Some of these risings were not purely of
a religious character. There was much distress
amongst the labouring classes, and they had a
strong feeling that, somehow or other, it was connected
with the suppression of the monasteries and
the rise of a new order of landholders, who had not
the same sympathy with the poor as had been manifested
by the religious orders. They were now called
upon to make a complete change in the mode of
worship to which they had been accustomed, and
they could not disconnect it from previous disarrangements
of the established order of things
which they had witnessed, and which they regarded
with the utmost antipathy. The insurrection in
Devon was the one most distinguished for religious
fervour. The insurgents published certain articles,
whicii were answered by Cranmer. They desired
the re-enactment of the Six Articles, the mass to be
used as heretofore, the Blessed Sacrament to hang
over the high altar, and Communion to be in one
kind only.
The reformed service appears, however, to have
come, on the whole, into general use almost immediately.
But a new set of assailants arose. A
provisional arrangement which was adopted at the
Diet of Augsburg in May, 1548, called the Interim