retail, as they and every of them might have done at any time or times before the making of this act; any thing herein to the contrary notwithstanding.

One dwelling

doth after become free

of a city, borough, &c.

IV. Provided alway, That this prefent act shall not extend in the country to any person or perfons that now dwell or inhabit in the country, or hereafter shall dwell or inhabit out of any of the faid cities, boroughs, towns corporate or market-towns, but that they and every of them at any time hereafter, when they or any of them thall be free of any of the guilds and liberties of any of the faid cities, boroughs, towns corporate or markettowns, and dwell or inhabit within any of the fame cities, boroughs, towns corporate or market-towns, that they and every of them fo being free fhall and may fell, or caufe to be fold, any of the wares aforefaid, by retail, in as ample and large manner as they and every of them might have done, being free of the faid cities, boroughs and towns aforefaid, before the making of this act, any clause or article in this act to the contrary notwithstanding.

Any perfon may fell cloth of his own making.

The liberties

and Oxford.

V. Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, That it shall be lawful to all perfons to fell or caufe to be fold by retail or otherwise, all manner of cloth, linen or woolen, of their own making, in every city, borough, town corporate and market-town within this realm, as freely and frankly as they might have done before the making of this act; any thing in the fame contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.

VI. Provided alway, That this act, or any thing therein. of Cambridge contained, fhall not be prejudicial or hurtful to the liberties and privileges of the univerfities of Cambridge and Oxford, or either of them; any thing in this act heretofore mentioned to the contrary notwithstanding.

against the fee of Rome re

pealed.

Much falfe

CAP. VIII.

An att repealing all articles and provifions made against the fee apoftolick of Rome, fince the twentieth year of King Henry the Eighth, and for the establishment of all Spiritual and ecclefiaftical poffeffions and hereditaments conveyed to the laity.

All fatutes WHEREAS fince the twentieth year of King Henry the Eighth of famous memory, father unto your Majesty our most natural fovereign, and gracious lady and Queen, much falfe and erroneous doctrine hath been taught, preached and written, partly by divers the doctrine hath natural-born fubjects of this realm, and partly being brought in hither been preached from fundry other foreign countries, hath been fowen and fpread abroad and written within the fame: (2) by reafon whereof, as well the spiritualty as year of King the temporalty of your Highness realms and dominions have fwerved Hen. 8. from the obedience of the fee apoftolick, and declined from the Cardinal Pool unity of Christ's church, and fo have continued, until fuch time as your Majesty being first raised up by God, and fet in the feat

fince the xx.

fent from

Rome to call

royal

from whence

royal over us, and then by his divine and gracious providence knit in the realm into marriage with the most noble and virtuous prince the King our fovereign the right way lord your husband, the pope's holiness and the fee apoftolick fent it hath trayed. hither unto your majefties (as unto perfons undefiled, and by God's goodness preferved from the common infection aforefaid) and to the whole realm, the most reverend father in God the lord cardinal Pool, legate de latere, to call us home again into the right way from whence we have all this long while wandered and frayed abroad; (3) and we, after fundry long and grievous plagues and calamities, Jeeing by the goodness of God our own errors, have knowledged the fame unto the faid moft reverend father, and by him have been and are the rather at the contemplation of your Majefties received and embraced into the unity and bofom of Christ's church, and upon our bumble fubmiffion and promife made for a declaration of our repentance, to repeal and abrogate fuch acts and ftatutes as have been made in parliament fince the faid twentieth year of the faid King Henry the Eighth, against the fupremacy of the fee apoftolick, as in our fubmiffion exhibited to the faid most reverend father in God by your Majefties appeareth: the tenor whereof enfueth.

a mean to

II. We the lords fpiritual and temporal and the commons, af- The fuplica fembled in this prefent parliament, reprefenting the whole body of the tion of the realm of England, and the dominions of the fame, in the name of our parliament to felves particularly, and alfo of the faid body univerfally, in this our the King and fupplication directed to your Majefties, with most humble fuit, that Queen to be it may by your Grace's interceffion and mean be exhibited to the most re- reduce them verend father in God, the lord cardinal Pool, legate, fent Specially into the cathohither from our moft holy father pope July the Third and the fee apof- lick church. tolick of Rome, do declare ourselves very forry and repentant of the fchifm and difabedience committed in this realm and dominions aforefaid against the faid see apoftolick, either by making, agreeing or executing any laws, ordinances or commandments, against the fupremacy of the faid fee, or otherwife doing or speaking, that might impugne the fame: (2) offering ourselves and promifing by this our fupplication, that for a token and knowledge of our faid repentance, we be and fhall be always ready, under and with the authorities of your Majefties, to the uttermost of our powers, to do that shall lie in us for the abrogation and repealing of the faid laws and ordinances in this prefent parliament, as well for ourselves as for the whole body whom we reprefent: (3) whereupon we most humbly defire your Majefties, as perfonages undefiled in the offence of this body towards the faid fee, which nevertheless God by his providence hath made fubject to you, fo to fet forth this our most humble fuit, that we may obtain from the fee apoftolick, by the faid moft reverend father, as well particularly and generally, abfolution, releafe and discharge from all danger of fuch cenfures and fentences, as by the laws of the church we be fallen into; (4) and that we may as children repentant be received into the bofom and unity of Christ's church, fo as this noble realm, with all the members thereof, may in this unity and perfect obedience to the fee apoftolick and popes for the time being, serve God and your Majefties, to the furtherance and advancement of his honour and glory. (5) We are at the interceffion of your Majefties, by the

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authority

authority of our holy father pope July the Third and of the fee apoftolick, affoiled, difcharged and delivered from excommunications, interdictions and other cenfures ecclefiaftical, which hath hanged over our heads for our faid defaults fince the time of the faid fchifm A repeal of all mentioned in our fupplication: (6) it may now like your Majefties, ftatutes made that for the accomplishment of our promife made in the said fuppliagainst the cation, that is, to repeal all laws and ftatutes made contrary to the fupremacy faid fupremacy and fee apoftolick, during the faid fchifm, the which is to be understood fince the xx. year of the reign of the faid late King Henry the Eighth, and fo the faid lord legate doth accept and recognize the fame.

and fee apoftolick fince the time of the fchifm.

The ftatute of

21 H. 8.c. 13, made against pluralities of

benefices, taking of ferms by fpi

ritual men, and nonrefidence.

III. Where in the parliament begun and holden at Westminster in the xxi. year of the reign of the late King of famous memory, King Henry the Eighth, one act was then and there made against pluralities of benefices, for taking of ferms by Spiritual men and for nonrefidence, in the which act, amongst other things, it was ordained and enacted, That if any perfon or perfons, at any time after the first day of April in the year of our Lord God one thousand five hundred and thirty, contrary to the fame act, should procure and obtain at the court of Rome, or elsewhere, any licence or licences, union, toleration, or difpenfation, to receive and take any more benefices with cure than was limited and appointed by the fame act, or else at any time after the faid day fhould put in execution any fuch licence toleration or difpenfation before that time obtained contrary to the faid act, that then every fuch perfon or perfons fo after the faid day fuing for himself, or receiving and taking fuch benefice by force of fuch licence or licences, union, toleration or difpenfation, that is to fay, the fame perJon or perfons only, and no other, should for every fuch default incur the danger, pain and penalty of twenty pound sterling, and should alfo lofe the whole profits of every fuch benefice or benefices, as he receiveth or taketh by force of any fuch licence or licences, union, toleration or difpenfation: (2) and where alfo in the faid act it was ordained and enacted, That if any person or perfons did procure or obtain at the court of Rome, or elsewhere any manner of licence or difpenfation to be non-refident at their dignities, prebend or benefices, contrary to the faid act, that then every fuch person or perfons putting in execution any fuch difpenfation or licence for himself, from the faid first day of April in the year of our Lord God MDXXX, fhould run and incur the penalty, damage and pain of xx. 1. fterling for every time fo doing, to be forfeited and recovered as by the faid act is declared, and yet fuch licence or difpenfation fo procured, or to be put in execution, to be void and of none effect, as by the fame aft more plainly it doth and may appear.

IV. Be it enacted by the authority of this prefent parliament, That as much only of the faid act as concerneth the articles and claufes aforefaid, and all and every the words and fentences contained in the faid act, concerning the faid articles and clauses, and every of them, fhall from henceforth be repealed, adnulled, revoked, annihilated and utterly made void for ever; any thing in the faid act to the contrary in any wife notwithstanding.

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V. And

V. And where alfo at the feffion of the fame parliament holden 23 H. 8. c. 9. upon prorogation in the xxiii. year of the reign of the faid late King Henry the Eighth, one act entituled, The act that no person shall

be cited out of the diocese where he or she dwelleth, except in certain cafes;

VI. And where also at the said parliament, in the feffion holden 24 H. 8. c. 12. at Westminster upon prorogation in the xxiv. year of the reign of the faid late King Henry the Eighth, one act was made, that appeals in fuch cafes as hath been used to be pursued to the fee of Rome, fhould not from henceforth be had or used, but within this realm;

VII. And where alfo at the faid parliament holden at West- 21 H. 8. C. 20. minster in the xxi. year of the reign of the faid late King Henry the Eighth, and there continued by divers prorogations until the xiv. day of April in the xxvii. year of his reign, one act was made concerning reftraints of payments of annates and firft-fruits of archbishopricks and bishopricks to the fee of Rome.

VIII. And where at a feffion of the faid parliament holden in the 25 H. 8. c. 19. five and twentieth year of the reign of the faid late King, there was alfo one act made, entituled, The fubmiffion of the clergy to the King's

majefty.

IX. And one other act, entituled, one act restraining the faid 25 H. 8. c. 20. payments of annates or firft-fruits to the bishop of Rome, and

of the electing and confecrating of the archbishops and bishops with

in this realm.

X. And one other act was then and there made, entituled, An act 25 H. 8. C.-21. concerning the exoneration of the King's fubjects from exactions and impofitions before that time payed to the fee of Rome, and for having licences and difpenfations within this realm, without fuing further for the fame.

the before

XI. Be it enacted by the authority of this prefent parliament, A repeal of That the faid feveral acts made for the restraint of payments recited staof the said annates and first-fruits, and all other the said acts tutes. made in the faid twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth years of the reign of the faid late King, and every of them, and all and every branch, article, matter and fentence in them and every of them contained, shall be by authority of this prefent parliament from henceforth utterly void, made frustrate and repealed to all intents, conftructions and purposes.

XII. And be it further enacted by the authority of this 26 H. 8. c. 1. prefent parliament, That all and every thefe acts following, that is to fay, one act made at the feffion of the faid parliament holden upon prorogation at Westminster in the xxvi. year of the reign of the faid late King Henry the Eighth, entituled, An act concerning the King's highnefs to be fupreme head of the church of England, and to have authority to reform and redress all errors, herefies and abuses in the fame;

XIII. And one other act made in the fame feffion of the fame 26 H. 8. c. 14. parliament, entituled, An act for nomination and confecration

of fuffragans within this realm;

XIV. And one other act made in the xxvii. year of the reign 27 H. 8. c. 15. of the said late King Henry the eighth, entituled, An act

whereby the King fhould have power to nominate thirty-two perfons of his clergy and lay-fee for the making of ecclefiaftical laws.

28 H. 8. c. 10.

28 H. 8. c. 16.

28 H. 8. c. 7.

31 H. 8. c. 9.

32 H. 8. c. 38.

35 H. 8. c. 3.

35 H. 8. c. 1.

37 H. 8. c. 17.

A repeal of the ftatute laft before

recited.

XV. And also one other act made at the parliament holden at Westminster in the eight and twentieth year of the reign of the faid late King Henry the Eighth, entituled, An act extinguishing the authority of the bishop of Rome;

XVI. And also one other act made in the fame parliament, entituled, An act for the release of such as then had obtained pretended licences and difpenfations from the fee of Rome;

XVII. And also all that part of the act made in the faid eight and twentieth year of the faid King, entituled, An act for the establishment of the fucceffion of the imperial crown of the realm, that concerneth a prohibition to marry within the degrees expreffed in the faid act;

XVIII. And also one other act made at the parliament holden at Westminster in the one and thirtieth year of the reign of the faid late King Henry the Eighth, entituled, An act authorifing the King's highness to make bishops by his letters patents;

XIX. And one other act made in the feffion of the fame parliament, begun in the faid one and thirtieth year, holden upon prorogation the two and thirtieth year of the reign of the faid King Henry the Eighth, entituled, An act concerning pre-contracts of marriages, and touching degrees of confanguinity;

XX. And one other act made in the parliament holden at Westminster in the xxxv. year of the reign of the faid late King Henry the Eighth, entituled, an act for the ratification of the King's majesty's ftyle; (2) fhall henceforth be repealed, made fruftrate, void and of none effect;

XXI. And where alfo at the faid parliament holden at Westminster in the five and thirtieth year of the reign of the faid late King Henry the Eighth, one other act was made, entituled, An act concerning the ftablishment of the fucceffion of the faid King in the imperial crown of this realm: in the which act there is a form of a corporal oath devifed and fet forth, that every fubject of this realm should be bound to take, against the power, authority and jurifdiction of the fee of Rome: (2) be it enacted by the authority of this prefent parliament, That fo much of the faid act as toucheth the faid oath against the supremacy, and all oaths thereupon had, made and given, fhall be from henceforth utterly void, repealed and of none effect.

XXII. And where alfo one other act was made in the feven and thirtieth year of the reign of the said late King Henry the Eighth, entituled, An act that doctors of the civil law, being married, might exercife ecclefiaftical jurisdiction : (2) be it enacted by the authority of this prefent parliament, That the faid act laft before mentioned, and all and every branch, article, fentence and matter contained in the fame, thall from henceforth be repealed and utterly made void and of none effect.

XXIII. And