Elizabeth re-established the break with Rome when she passed the 1559 Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity.

Hence he steadily resisted Elizabeth's acts of supremacy and uniformity, although he had acquiesced in the acts of 1534 and 1549.

By early May fresh Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity had been passed, and the Protestant Book of Common Prayer reintroduced.

The Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity (1559), the Prayer Book of 1559, and the Thirty-Nine Articles (1563) were all Protestant in doctrine, but preserved many traditionally Catholic ceremonies.

In his discussion of these works, Richard Allen Cave has argued that Power, both in his acting as well as his choice of plays, sought to rehabilitate the Irishman from the derogatory associations with "stage Irishmen" ("Staging the Irishman" in Acts of Supremacy [1991]).

American Anti-Catholic Nativism has its origins in the Reformation in which Protestant adherents developed a deep-rooted antipathy for the Roman Catholic Church as a result of their long struggle to establish independent churches, as a follow-up of the Acts of Supremacy and the English Reformation in 1534.