Well actually tis mete

Well actually Lord Somerset did have a role in the original shaping of episcopal debate and the production of the BCP, and the role was simple, to steer the bishops away from the minefields of endless conquistador debate about definitions and dogmas and synods, and into the calmer clearer waters of the ordinary man in the street sort of theologising. The protestant reform was necessary, or rather the henrician and boleyn reform of the years 1525-1536 was in fact necessary, simply because the population as a whole were being misled by endless speculation of religious men on privacy matters, such as the king's annulment. Somerset had to threaten all the bishops in synod in 1548 because they had a tendency, even Cranmer, to drift back into the old forms that precipitated debate in the first place under the unhealthy obsessions of Fisher for a species of Campeggio and Conquistador canon law that was exaggerated above and beyond the 4 gospels. Theology had become a problem of public disorder, and so as per today in the council of the catholics at vatican two, the state always reserves the right to intervene when overly religious men upset society and cause public disorder. Hard cheese all round on the trop de qua catholic bishops of 1548 but it was simply that or general disorder of a protestant geneva kind. And both extremes Somerset and the young boy king Edward VI wished to avoid. A protestant reform was necessary because sound men wished a return to all the lovely simplicities of the New Testament era.