The people still regarded priests' wives much as concubines and the government spoke of clergymen as "sotted with their wives and children." There is one other bit of evidence, of a most singular character, showing that this and subsequent Acts of Uniformity were not thoroughly enforced.

The test of orthodoxy came to be taking the communion occasionally according to the Anglican rite.

This was at first expected of everyone and then demanded by law; but the law was evaded by permitting a conscientious objector to hire a substitute to take communion for him.
In 1552 the Prayer Book was revised in a Protestant sense.

Bucer had something to do with this revision, and so did John Knox.

Little was now left of the mass, nothing of private confession or anointing the sick.