_1547._ _Edward VI_ orders the publication of a list of homilies and books of worship, the use of which is made compulsory for church service. Every priest is instructed to make diligent study of the New Testament, both in Latin and in English, and to compare with this the Paraphrases of Erasmus. Bishop Gardiner remonstrated, pointing out that the homilies and the Paraphrases contradicted each other.[56] _1549._ _King Edward_ orders the exclusive use of the official Communion Book, and the bishops are instructed to cancel, in such manner that they cannot again come into use, the liturgies of Sarum, Lincoln, and York.[57] During Edward’s reign, no royal action was taken in regard to censorship. _1555._ _Philip and Mary._ In this year was issued a “proclamation by the King and Queen” “for the restraining of all Books and Writings, tending against the Doctrine of the Pope and his Church.” The proclamation grounds itself upon a statute of the second year of Henry IV, and condemns, usually simply with the name of the author, a number of reformers, both foreign and English. Among the English works is included the Chronicle of Hall. The “Proclamation” bears the imprint of John Cawood. _1556._ _The papal Legate, Cardinal Pole_, publishes a “Reformation-Decree” in which are included the regulations of the _Bulla Coenae_. It is further ordered that the bishops should arrange for the examination of the booksellers’ shops, and for the confiscation and destruction of all heretical writings.[58] _1557._ _An edict of the convocation of the province of Canterbury_ repeats and confirms the royal condemnation. In 1558 (the last year of the reign of Mary), is issued a further proclamation worded as follows: “BY THE KING AND QUEEN. Whereas divers Books, filled with Heresie, Sedition, and Treason, have of late, and be dayly brought into this Realm out of foreign Countries and places beyond the seas, and some also covertly printed within this Realm, and cast abroad in sundry parts thereof, whereby not only God is dishonoured, but also an encouragement given to disoby lawfull Princes and Governors; the King and Queen’s Majesties, for redress hereof, do, by this present Proclamation, declare and publish to all their subjects, that whosoever shall, after the proclaiming hereof, be found to have any of the said wicked and seditious Books, or finding them, do not forthwith burn the same without shewing or reading the same to any other person, shall in that case be reputed and taken for a Rebel, and shall without delay be executed for that offence, according to the order of martial law. “Given at our Manor of Saint James the sixth day of June. John Cawood, Printer.”