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 pounds Sterling, above all charges of any such archbishopi"ick, or bishoprick, or other niviney, to the value of the said five pounds, for the clear yearly value of every hundredth pounds of every such archbishoprick, or bishoprick, and not above, nor in any otherwise, any thing in this present act before written notwithstanding. And forasmuch as the King's highness, and this his high court of parliament, neither have, nor do intend to use in this, or any other like cause, any manner of extremity or violence, before gentle courtesie or friendship, ways and means first approved and attempted, and without a very great urgent cause and occasion given to the contrary, but principally coveting to disburthen this realm of the said great exactions, and intole- rable charges of Annates, and first-fruits, have therefore thought convenient to commit the final order and determination of the premisses, in all things, unto the King's highness. So that if it may seem to his high wisdom, and most prudent discretion, meet to move the Pope's holiness, and the court of Rome, ami- cably, cliaritably, and reasonably, to compound, other to extinct and make frustrate the payments of the said Annates, or first- fruits, or else by some friendly, loving, and tolerable composition to moderate the same in such wise as may be by this realm easily borne and sustained ; that then those ways and composi- tions taken, concluded, and agreed, between the Pope's holiness and the King's highness, shall stand in strength, force and effect of law, inviolably to be observed. And it is also further or- dained, and enacted by the authority of this present parliament, That the King's highness at any time, or times, on this side the feast of Easter, which shall be in the year of our Lord God, one thousand five hundred and three and thirty, or at any time on this side the beginning of the next parliament, by his letters patents under his great seal, to be made, and to be entred of record in the roll of this present parliament, may and shall have full power and liberty to declare, by the said letters patents, whether that the premisses, or any part, clause, or matter there- of, shall be observed, obeyed, executed, and take place and effect, as an act and statute of this present parliament, or not. So that if his highness, by his said letters patents, before the expiration of the times above limited, thereby do declare his pleasure to be, that the premisses, or any part, clause, or matter thereof, shall not be put in execution, observed, continued, nor obeyed, in that case all the said premisses, or such part, clause, or matter, as the King's highness so shall refuse, disaffirm, or not ratify, shall stand and be from henceforth uttely void and of none effect.