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No. XII.

16 Rich. II.

c. 5.

Præmunire for purchasing of Bulls, or other Instruments from Rome or elsewhere.

the assent aforesaid, and at the request of his said Commons, hath ordained and established, That if any purchase or pursue, or cause to be purchased or pursued in the Court of Rome, or elsewhere, by any such Translations, Processes, and Sentences of Excommunications, Bulls, Instruments, or any other things whatsoever which touch the King, against him, his crown, and his regality, or his realm, as is aforesaid, and they which bring within the realm, or them receive, or make thereof notification, or any other execution whatsoever within the same realm or without, that they, their Notaries, Procurators, Maintainers, Abettors, Fautors, and Counsellors, shall be put out of the King's protection, and their Lands and Tenements, Goods and Chattels, forfeit to our Lord the King; and that they be attached by their bodies, if they may be found, and brought before the King and his Council, there to answer to the cases aforesaid, or that Process be made against them by Pramunire facias, in manner as it is ordained in other Statutes of Provisors, and other which do sue in any other Court in derogation of the regality of our Lord the King.

[ No. XIII.] (A.) 2 Henry IV. c. 3.-If any do accept a Provision granted by the Pope to a religious Person to be exempt from Obedience, he shall be within the danger of the Statute of Provisors.

(B.) 2 Henry IV. c. 4.-The Penalties for purchasing of Bulls to be discharged of Tithes.

(B. a.) 2 Henry IV. c. 15.-The Orthodoxy of the Faith of the Church of England asserted, and Provision made against the Oppugners of the same, with the Punishment of Hereticks.

(C.) 4 Henry IV. c. 17.-Infants are not to be received into the Order of Friars without the consent of their Parents, &c.

[No. XIV. ] 7 Henry IV. c. 6.-The Penalty of him which purchaseth a Bull to be discharged of Tithes.

[No. XV. ] 7 Henry IV. c. 8.-No Provision, Licence, or Pardon shall be granted of a Benefice full of an Incumbent.

[No. XVI. ] 9 Henry IV. c. 9.-Elections to spiritual Promotions shall be free, and not interrupted by the Pope or the King.

[No. XVII. ] 9 Henry IV. c. 10.-A Pardon granted by the King to all that have purchased Provisions, or Translations to Archbishopricks, Bishopricks, &c.

[ No. XVIII. ] 2 Henry V. c. 7.-The intent of the Hereticks called Lollards. Magistrates shall assist the Ordinaries in extirpating Heresies and punishing Hereticks. Penalty on Hereticks convict.

[No. XIX. ] 3 Henry V. stat. 2. c. 4.-All Provisions, No. XIX. Licences, and Pardons of a Benefice full of an Incumbent 3 Henry V. shall be void.

[ No. XX. ] 21 Henry VIII. c. 13.-Spiritual Persons abridged from having Pluralities of Livings, and from taking of Ferms, &c.

[Inserted Pt. I. Cl. II. No. I.]

[ No. XXI. ] 23 Henry VIII. c. 9.-An Act that no Person shall be cited out of the Diocess where he or she dwelleth, except in certain Cases.

[Inserted Pt. IV. Cl. XXV. No. 13.]

No. XXII.] 23 Henry VIII. c. 20.-An Act concerning the restraint of Payment of Annates to the See of Rome.*

*This Act, which is not printed in the Statutes at large, or referred to in the Table of Contents, but is contained in the Appendix of Runnington's Edition, may be considered as the first step taken with the intent of effecting an actual separation from the See of Rome. Annates were certain Pay

st. 2. c. 4.

ments claimed on the consecration of Archbishops and Bishops, which by the Act were limited to Five per Cent. upon the annual value of the See, upon pain of forfeiture of Goods, and the temporal possession of the Bishoprick during life.

[ No. XXIII. ] 24 Henry VIII. c. 12.-For the Re-
straint of Appeals.
[Inserted Pt. IV. Cl. XXIV. No. XIV.]

[ No. XXIV. ] 25 Henry VIII. c. 14.-A Repeal of the Statute of 2 H. 4. c. 15, and a Confirmation of the Statutes of 5 R. 2. st. 2. c. 5, and 2 H. 5. st. 1. c. 7, touching the Punishment of Hereticks. Sheriffs in their Turns, and Stewards in their Leets, Rapes and Wapentakes, shall have authority to inquire of Hereticks; and every such Presentment made in any Turn, Leet, &c. concerning Hereticks, shall be certified to the Ordinary. Every Person presented or indicted of any Heresy, or duly accused by two lawful Witnesses, may be cited, arrested, or taken by an Ordinary, or other of the King's Subjects, and committed to the Ordinary, to answer in open Court, and being convict, shall abjure his Heresies, and refusing so to do, or falling into relapse, shall be burned in an open Place for example of others.

[ No. XXV.] 25 Henry VIII. c. 19.-The Submission of the Clergy and Restraint of Appeals.

[Inserted Pt. IV. Cl. XXIV. No. XV.]

No. XXVI. [ No. XXVI. ] 25 Henry VIII. c. 20.-An Act for the Non-payment of First-fruits to the Bishop of Rome.

25 H. VIII. c. 20.

[No. XXVII. ] 25 Henry VIII. c. 21.-The Act concerning Peter-pence and Dispensations.

[ No. XXVIII.] 26 Henry VIII. c. 1.-The King's Grace to be authorized Supreme Head.

[ No. XXIX. ] 26 Henry VIII. c. 3.-The Bill for the First-fruits, with the yearly Pensions to the King.

[ No. XXX. ] 27 Henry VIII. c. 28.-All Monasteries given to the King, which have not Lands above two hundred Pounds by the Year.

[No. XXXI. ] 28 Henry VIII. c. 16.-A Provision for Dispensations and Licences heretofore obtained from the See of Rome.

[No. XXXII.] 31 Henry VIII. c. 18.-An Act for Dissolution of Monasteries and Abbies.*

[No. XXXIII. ] 31 Henry VIII. c. 14.-An Act for Abolishing Diversity of Opinions in certain Articles concerning Christian Religion.

[ No. XXXIV. ] 34 and 35 Henry VIII. c. 1.-Recourse must be had to the Catholic and Apostolic Church for the Decision of Controversies; and therefore all Books of the Old and New Testament in English, being of Tindal's false Translation, or comprising any matter of Christian Religion, Articles of the Faith, or holy Scripture, contrary to the Doctrine set forth sithence Anno Dom. 1540, or to be set forth by the King, shall be abolished. No Printer or Bookseller shall utter any of the aforesaid Books. No Person shall Play in Enterlude, sing or rhime, contrary to the said Doctrine. No Person shall retain any English Books or Writings concerning matter against the holy and blessed Sacrament of the Altar, or for the Maintenance of Anabaptists, or other Books abolished by the King's Proclamation. There shall be no Annotations or Preambles in Bibles or New Testaments in English. The Bible shall not be read in English in any Church. No Women or Artificers, Prentices, Journeymen, Servingmen of the

* Part of this Act given in Vol. II.

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c. I.

degree of Yeomen or under, Husbandmen, nor Labourers, No.XXXIV. shall read the New Testament in English. Nothing shall 34 and 35. be taught or maintained contrary to the King's instruc- Henry VIII. tions. And if any spiritual Person preach, teach, or maintain any thing contrary to the King's instructions or determinations, made or to be made, and shall be thereof convict, he shall for his first Offence recant, for his second abjure and bear a Faggot, and for his third shall be adjudged an Heretick, and be burned and lose all his Goods and Chattels,

[ No. XXXV. ] 1 Edward VI. c. 1.-An Act against such
as shall unreverently speak against the Sacrament of the
Altar, and of the Receiving thereof under both kinds.
[VI. The Defendant may try his innocency by Witnesses.]

[VII. The blessed Sacrament shall be delivered unto the People under both kinds of Bread and Wine.-The usage of other Churches not condemned.]

[ No. XXXVI. ] 2 and 3 Edward VI. c. 1.-An Act for Uniformity of Service and Administration of the Sacraments throughout the Realm.

[No. XXXVII. ] 3 and 4 Edward VI. c. 10.-An Act for the abolishing and putting away of divers Books and Images.

[ No. XXXVIII.] 5 and 6 Edward VI. c. 1.-An Act for the Uniformity of Service and Administration of Sacraments throughout the Realm.

[ No. XXXIX. ] 5 and 6 Edward VI. c. 3.-An Act for the keeping Holidays and Fasting Days.

[No. XL. ] 1 Mary sess. 2. c. 2.-A Repeal of the stat. of 1 Ed 6. c. 1, made against such as shall speak unreverently of the Body and Blood of Christ, and of the stat. of 1 Ed. 6. c. 2, touching the Election of Bishops, and the stat. of 2 Ed. 6. c. 1, concerning the Uniformity of Service, and Administration of the Sacraments, and of the stat of 2 and 3 Ed. 6. c. 21, made to take away all positive Laws ordained against the Marriage of Priests, and of the stat. of 3 and 4 Ed. 6. c. 10, made for the Abolishing of divers Books and Images, and of the stat. of 3 and 4 Ed. 6. c. 12, made for the Ordering of Ecclesiastical Ministers, and of the stat. of 5 and 6 Ed. 1. c. 1, made for the Uniformity of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, and of the stat. of 5 and 6 Ed. 6. c. 3, made for the keeping of Holy-days and Fasting-days, and of the stat.

No. XL. 1 Mary,

sess. 2. c. 2.

1 Eliz. C.

Stat. 5 and 6.
Ed. 6. c..1.

A Repeal of the St. of 1 M.

sess. 2. c. 2.

And the Book of Common Prayer shall be of Effect.

The Book of
Common

Prayer shall
be used,

of 5 and 6 Ed. 6. c. 12, touching the Marriage of Priests and Legitimation of their Children. All such Divine Service and Administration of Sacraments as were most commonly used in England in the last year of Hen. S, shall be used thorow the Realm, after the 20th Day of December, Anno Dom. 1553, and no other Kind of Service nor Administration of Sacraments. 1 El. c. 2. Repealed by 1 Ja. 1. c. 25. § 48.

[ No. XL. a. ] 1 and 2 Philip and Mary, c. 8.-An Act repealing all Articles and Provisions made against the See Apostolick of Rome, since the twentieth year of King Henry the Eighth, and for the Establishment of all Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Possessions and Hereditaments conveyed to the Laity.

No. XLI. ] 1 Elizabeth c. 1.-An Act to restore to the Crown the ancient Jurisdiction over the Estate Ecclesiastical and Spiritual, and abolishing all foreign Powers repugnant to the same.

[ No. XLII. ] 1 Elizabeth c. 2.-An Act for the Uniformity of Common Prayer and Service in the Church, and Administration of the Sacraments.

WHERE at the death of our late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Sixth there remained one uniform Order of Common Service and Prayer, and of the administration of Sacraments, Rites and Cere'monies in the Church of England, which was set forth in one book, intituled, The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies in the Church of England; authorized by Act of Parliament holden in the fifth and sixth years of our said late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Sixth, intituled, An Act for the Uniformity of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments; the which was repealed and taken away by Act of Parliament in the first year of the reign of our late Sovereign Lady Queen Mary, to the great decay of the due honour of God, and discomfort to "the professors of the truth of Christ's religion :'

II. Be it therefore enacted by the authority of this present Parliament, That the said Estatute of Repeal, and every thing therein contained, only concerning the said Book, and the Service, administration of the Sacraments, Rites and Ceremonies, contained or appointed in or by the said Book, shall be void and of none effect, from and after the Feast of the Nativity of St. John Baptist next coming; And that the said Book, with the Order of Service, and of the administration of Sacraments, Rites and Ceremonies, with the alterations and additions therein added and appointed by this Estatute, shall stand and be, from and after the said Feast of the Nativity of St. John Baptist, in full force and effect, according to the tenor and effect of this Estatute; any thing in the aforesaid Estatute of Repeal to the contrary notwithstanding.

III. And further be it enacted by the Queen's Highness, with the assent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That all and singular Ministers in any Cathedral or Parish Church, or other place within this Realm of England, Wales, and the Marches of the same, or other the Queen's Dominions, shall from

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