How many religious houses were in Ireland in 1530 ?
By the time of Henry 's death ( 1547 ) around half of the Irish houses had been suppressed ; but many houses of friars continued to resist dissolution until well into the reign of Elizabeth I. Henry 's son Edward VI of England ( 1547–53 ) formally established Protestantism as the state religion , which was as much a religious matter as his father 's reformation had been political .