Edward VI was the son of King Henry VIII and his third wife Jane Seymour who was born in 1537. He was nine when his father passed away making him King of England and Ireland. During his reign, Edward VI was a practicing protestant. In 1549, the First Act of Uniformity was passed which made the Roman Catholic mass illegal. The clergy were ordered to remove religious icons and statues of the saints. Later that year The First Book of Common Prayer was introduced which took away Latin readings in Church service to English. In 1553, Edward became ill and knowing he was dying he tried to make sure that Protestantism stayed in England so he put Lady Jane Grey on the throne before dying.
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