that appeared overly Catholic or “Romish.” So it was soon thereafter that the first revision of the Prayer Book was published. The 1552 edition was more explicit in its rubrics, or explanatory instructions, and more in tune with some of the tenets of Calvinism, something that would have been unthinkable during Henry’s reign, but which was encouraged by the Protestant advisors to Henry’s sickly heir, Edward VI. The new king’s brief reign came to an end with the boy’s death and his half-sister’s rise