1551 - Edward the sixth's journal, 2
His sister Princess Mary is under renewed pressure to end the illegal Mass in her household.
Edward VI recorded the crisis in his journal.

The lady Mary, my sister, came to me to Westminster, where after greetings she was called with my council into a chamber where it was declared how long I had suffered her mass, in hope of her reconciliation, and how now, there being no hope as I saw by her letters, unless I saw some speedy amendment I could not bear it.  She answered that her soul was God's and her faith she would not change, nor hide her opinion with dissembled doings.  It was said I did not constrain her faith but willed her only as a subject to obey.  And that her example might lead to too much inconvenience.

On 19 March the emperor's ambassador came with a short message from his master of threatened war, if I would not allow his cousin the princess to use her mass.  No answer was given to this at the time.

The following day the bishops of Canterbury, London and Rochester, Thomas Cranmer, Nicholas Ridley and John Scory, concluded that to give licence to sin was sin; to allow and wink at it for a time might be born as long as all possible haste was used.
 

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