Protestantism in England From the Times of Henry VIII - James Aitken Wylie

Old Testament at evensong. The portions of
Scripture read at mass were enjoined to be also in
English. Chantry priests, or those who sang masses
at the private oratories in cathedral churches for the
souls of the founders, were to spend more
profitably their time in teaching the young to read
and write. All clergymen with an income of 100
pounds a year--equal at least to 1,000 pounds now-
-were to maintain a poor scholar at one of the
universities. Candles were forbidden to be carried
on Candlemas Day, ashes, on Ash Wednesday,
palms on Palm Sunday. "So that this year" (1547),
says Strype, "on Candlemas Day, the old custom of
bearing candles in the church, and on Ash
Wednesday following giving ashes in the church,
was left off through the whole of the city of
London."[7] In order was also issued by the
Council for the removal of all images from the
churches--a change implying so great an alteration
in the worship of the people as to be a reformation
in itself.[8] Another most important change was
now adopted. After being discussed in
Convocation, it was enacted by Parliament that
henceforth the communion should be dispensed in
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