Series 1 Episode 4 - Bloody Mary

The Rise of the Protestants

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The Artwork is Portrait of Mary by Antonis Mor. c.1554

The Music is The Lord is my light and my salvation (Psalm: 27) Anglican chant.

After Edward's death, Lady Jane Grey was proclaimed Queen on 10 July 1553 and was held safely in the Tower of London, awaiting her coronation.
Upon hearing of Edward's death, Mary Tudor, fearing for her safety, escaped to East Anglia, where she owned several estates.
On 1 October 1553, Stephen Gardiner, an English Catholic bishop, crowned Mary Tudor as Mary I, Queen of England and Ireland, at Westminster Abbey.
Mary was the first queen to rule England in her own right. She became known as "Bloody Mary" due to her persecution and execution of Protestants.
Throughout her reign, she ordered the execution of 280 Protestants by burning them at the stake as heretics, in a failed attempt to restore Catholicism in England.
Her reign led to the emergence of a clandestine Protestant church in London, as a reaction to her enforcement of Catholicism as England's official religion.
It was on waste ground beyond the ditch, now the site of Broad Street, that the three Protestant martyrs of Oxford, Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimerwere burned at the stake.
The trial of Thomas Cranmer began on 12 September 1555, held under papal jurisdiction, with Rome determining the final verdict.
The first Vestments controversy, or Vestarian Controversy, arose during the English Reformation concerning the wearing of vestments and clerical dress.
This controversy marked the first significant attack in the Puritans' campaign for reform.