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The differences between BigEndians (those who
broke their eggs at the larger end) and LittleEndians had given rise to "six rebellions... wherein one
Emperor lost his life, and another his crown".
The BigEndian/LittleEndian controversy reflects, in a much simplified form, British quarrels over
religion. England had been, less than 200 years previously, a Catholic (BigEndian) country; but a
series of reforms beginning in the 1530s under King Henry VIII (ruled 15091547), Edward VI (1547
1553), and Queen Elizabeth I (15581603) had converted most of the country to Protestantism (Little
Endianism), in the episcopalian form of the Church of England. At the same time, revolution and
reform in Scotland (1560) had also converted that country to Presbyterian Protestantism, which led to
fresh difficulties when England and Scotland were united under one ruler, James I (16031625).
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