The Book of Common Prayer was introduced in English. Statues and stained-glass depicting saints were removed from English churches and clergy was finally allowed to marry. However, the imposition of the English Book of Common Prayer which replaced Latin services in England led to uprisings in Cornwall and Devon. Edward Seymour sent troops to quash the rebellion in the king’s name and many of the rebels were hanged. It was another instance of the tension between reform and religious liberty. 

The most interesting part of the Western Uprising, as it was later named, was that the rebels were fighting for the prayer book to remain in Latin though they didn’t understand Latin. They didn’t understand English either because, in Cornwall, the vast majority spoke Cornish. So essentially what they were fighting for was the preservation of tradition at the expense of truth. This was an indication of the spiritual condition of much of England and served to contextualise Edward VI’s plans for Reformation.