Edward VI on the throne, Thomas Cranmer as Archbishop of Canterbury, and Martin Bucer as Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. The Church of England must have been pretty strong then... not like today...
an inspection of the diocese of Gloucester in 1551 revealed that 168 priests out of a total of 311 were unable to recite the Ten Commandments; 34 did not know who had formulated the Lord's Prayer, and 10 did not know it by heart.
(p.239, Martin Greschat, Martin Bucer: A Reformer and His Times)
... maybe not then.
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