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Edward VI (1547-53) was the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour (Henry\'s third wife). He became king on Henry\'s death in 1547, at the age of nine, and the government was entrusted to his uncle, the Duke of Somerset. Somerset fell from power in 1549 and was replaced by the Earl of Warwick, later created Duke of Northumberland. Northumberland was primarily concerned with the enforcement of the Act of Uniformity which imposed the First Book of Common Prayer on English worshippers. Hostility to this book and the Protestantism it represented caused rioting in the south-west.
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