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 II. It is therefore ordained, established, and enacted, by authority of this present parliament, That the unlawful payment of Annates, or first-fruits, and all manner contributions for the game, for any archbishoprick, or bishoprick, or for any bulls hereafter to be obtained from the court of Home, to or for the aforesaid purpose and intent, shall from henceforth utterly cease, and no such hereafter to be paid for any archbishoprick, or bishoprick, within this realm, other or otherwise than hereafter present act is declared; and that no manner person, nor persons hereafter to be named, elected, presented, or postulated to any archbishoprick, or bishoprick, within this realm, shall pay the said Annates, or first-fruits, for the said archbishoprick, or bishoprick, nor any other manner of sum or sums of money, pensions or Annates for the same, or for any other like exaction, or cause, upon pain to forfeit to our said sovereign lord the King, his heirs and successors, all manner his goods and chattels for ever, and all the temporal lands and possessions of the same archbishoprick, or bishoprick, during the time that he or they which shall offend, contrary to this present act, shall have, possess, or enjoy the archbishoprick, or bishoprick, wherefore he shall so offend contrary to the form aforesaid. And furthermore it is enacted, by authority of this present parliament, That if any person hereafter named and presented to the court of Rome by the King, or any of his heirs or successors, to be bishop of any see or diocese within this realm hereafter, shall be letted, deferred, or delayed at the court of Rome from any such bishoprick, whereunto he shall be so represented, by means of restraint of bulls apostolick, and other things requisite to the same; or shall be denied at the court of Rome, upon convenient suit made, any manner bulls requisite for any of the causes aforesaid, any such person or persons so presented, may be, and shall be consecrated here in England by the archbishop, in whose province the said bishoprick shall be, so alway that the same person shall be named and presented by the King for the time being to the same archbishop: and if any persons being named and presented, as aforesaid, to any archbishoprick of this realm, making convenient suit, as is aforesaid, shall happen to be letted, deferred, delayed or otherwise disturbed from the same archbishoprick, for lack of pall, bulls, or other to him requisite, to be obtained in the court of Rome in that behalf, that then every such person named and presented to be archbishop, may be, and shall be, consecrated and invested, after presentation made, as is aforesaid, by any other two bishops within this realm, whom the King's highness.