By 1549, the process of reforming the ancient national church was fully spurred on by the publication of the first vernacular prayer book, the Book of Common Prayer, and the enforcement of the Acts of Uniformity, establishing English as the language of public worship.

Catholic emancipation or Catholic relief was a process in Great Britain and Ireland in the late 18th century and early 19th century which involved reducing and removing many of the restrictions on Roman Catholics which had been introduced by the Act of Uniformity, the Test Acts and the penal laws.

* Uniformity of law – the laws of nature are constant across time and space.

* Uniformity of law across time and space: Natural laws are constant across space and time.

* Uniformity of rate across time and space: Change is typically slow, steady, and gradual.

* Uniformity of state across time and space: Change is evenly distributed throughout space and time.

Uniformity of the markings is an important factor in minimizing confusion and uncertainty about their meaning, and efforts exist to standardize such markings across borders.

At the same time, a new Act of Uniformity was passed, which made attendance at church and the use of an adapted version of the 1552 Book of Common Prayer compulsory, though the penalties for recusancy, or failure to attend and conform, were not extreme.

* Uniformity of degree – geological circumstances have remained the same over time.

Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Baptists, Quakers ( founded in 1648 ), were considered Nonconformists at the time of the 1662 Act of Uniformity.

Uniformity of laws in some areas of federal jurisdiction was delayed for a significant length of time:

When the Act of Uniformity 1662 was passed he quit his church, but remained for some time in the neighbourhood, preaching in private houses.

The ejection of Irish nonconformists was carried out by episcopal activity, some time before the passing of the English Act of Uniformity of 1662.

While at Christ Church he was partly responsible for the end in late 1861 of the Latin Prayer, conducted there since time immemorial, and for which special provision had been given in the Act of Uniformity 1662.

* Uniformity of methodology – the appropriate hypotheses for explaining the geological past are those with analogy today.

* Uniformity of kind – past and present causes are all of the same kind, have the same energy, and produce the same effects.

In January 1790 President Washington, in his first annual message to Congress stated that, " Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to ", and ordered Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson to prepare a plan for Establishing Uniformity in the Coinage, Weights, and Measures of the United States, afterwards referred to as the Jefferson report.

English Dissenters ( such as Puritans and Presbyterians ) who violated the Act of Uniformity 1559 may retrospectively be considered Nonconformists, typically by practising or advocating radical, sometimes separatist, dissent with respect to the Established Church.

After his refusal, he was not allowed, even before the passing of the Act of Uniformity, to be a curate in Kidderminster, and Bishop George Morley prohibited him from preaching in the diocese of Worcester.

According to Bishop Burnet he was cast out by the Presbyterians, but whether this be so or not, he soon made his way to England and became vicar of Godmersham, Kent, from which living he was expelled by the Act of Uniformity 1662.

English Presbyterians, Congregationalists, and Baptists would together ( with others ) come to be known as Nonconformists, because they did not conform to the Act of Uniformity ( 1662 ) establishing the Church of England as the only legally approved church, though they were in many ways united by their common confessions, built on the Westminster Confession.

The date 1662 was that of the Act of Uniformity following the Restoration ; it was after this point that nonconformist congregations truly began to develop and the Church of England ceased to be a comprehensive national church.

Uniformity of spoken English never existed and does not exist now, but usages do exist, which must be learnt by the speakers, and do not conform to prescriptive rules.

Section 6 of the Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Act 1860 provided that nothing contained thereinbefore in that Act was to be taken to repeal or alter the Act of Uniformity 1558.

Under her Act of Uniformity 1559, backed by the Act of Supremacy, the 1552 Prayer Book was to be the model for ecclesiastical use, but with an even more conservative stance on vestments that went back to the second year of Edward VI's reign.

He was presented to the living of Wilby, Northamptonshire ; but lost it as a result of the Act of Uniformity 1662.

The Act of Supremacy of 1559 re-established the Church of England ’ s independence from Rome, with Parliament conferring on giving Elizabeth the title Supreme Governor of the Church of England, while the Act of Uniformity of 1559 set out the form the English church would now take, including the re-establishment of the Book of Common Prayer.

* Uniformity ( philosophy ), the concept that the same natural laws and processes that operate in the universe now have always operated in the universe

In section 13 of the Act of Uniformity 1559, if acting on the advice of her commissioners for ecclesiastical causes or the metropolitan, the monarch had the authority " to ordeyne and publishe suche further Ceremonies or rites as maye bee most meet for the advancement of Goddes Glorye, the edifieing of his church and the due Reverance of Christes holye mistries and Sacramentes.

This action violated the 1549 Act of Uniformity, which made declining the appointment without good cause, a crime against the king and state, so Hooper was called to answer to the king.

After the English Restoration of 1660 and the 1662 Uniformity Act, almost all Puritan clergy left the Church of England, some becoming nonconformist ministers, and the nature of the movement in England changed radically, though it retained its character for much longer in New England.

With only minor changes, the Church of England was restored to its pre-Civil War constitution under the Act of Uniformity 1662, and the Puritans found themselves sidelined.

The more extreme Reformers furiously assailed its use, but in spite of their efforts, Elizabeth's Act of Uniformity ( 1559 ) retained the garment, and the advertisements and injunctions issued under her authority enforced its use, though they ordered the destruction of the " massing vestments "-chasubles, albs, stoles and the like.

The changes were put into effect by means of an explanation issued by James in the exercise of his prerrogative under the terms of the 1559 Act of Uniformity and Act of Supremacy.

* 1662 – The Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer.

The conservative nature of these changes underlines the fact that Protestantism was by no means universally popular – a fact that the queen herself recognized: her revived Act of Supremacy, giving her the ambiguous title of Supreme Governor passed without difficulty, but the Act of Uniformity 1559 giving statutory force to the Prayer Book, passed through the House of Lords by only three votes.

Though the Church of England was retained, episcopacy was suppressed and the Act of Uniformity was repealed in 1650.

This persistence of regularities is sometimes called Uniformitarianism or the Principle of the Uniformity of Nature.

Historians note that in her day, strict Protestants regarded the Acts of Settlement and Uniformity of 1559 as a compromise.

For example, the Act of Uniformity 1549 prescribed Protestant rites for church services, such as the use of Thomas Cranmer's new Book of Common Prayer.

:" Uniformity is an unprovable postulate justified, or indeed required, on two grounds.

: Uniformity of rate ( or Gradualism ) is what most people ( including geologists ) think of when they hear the word " uniformitarianism ," confusing this hypothesis with the entire definition.

* The Act of Uniformity 1662 in England and Wales makes mandatory the use of the Book of Common Prayer.

* February 27 – Queen Elizabeth I of England establishes the Church of England, with the Act of Uniformity 1558 and the Act of Supremacy 1559.