Original sentence: After ordination, Mayne attended university, first at St Alban's Hall, then at St John's College, in Oxford, where he was made chaplain.His uncle was a priest who conformed Church of England, and the family expected the good natured, shallow Mayne would inherit his uncle's rich church.This uncle paid his way to Barnstaple Grammar School, and he was ordained a Protestant minister at the age of eighteen or nineteen and instituted rector of Huntshaw, near his birthplace
Edited sentence: His uncle was a priest who conformed to the new, Anglican doctrines, and it was expected that Mayne, a good-natured and pleasant young man, but with no great thought of principles of any kind, would inherit his uncle's rich benefice.The times were dangerous for unconforming Catholics, and in the England of Henry VIII the Church was already in schism.The uncle had him educated at Barnstaple Grammar School, and he was ordained a Protestant minister at the age of eighteen or nineteen and instituted rector of Huntshaw, near his birthplace.There followed university studies, first at St Alban's Hall, then at St John's College, in Oxford, where he was made chaplain.With the ascent to the throne of the boy King Edward VI, an overtly Protestant government was installed