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 474 C. 8. Anno primo & fecundo Philippi 8c Marine. A. D. 1554. ' tions, Interdictions and other Cenfures Ecclefiaftical, which hath hanged over our Heads for our faid A Repeal of all « Defaults fince the Time of the faid Schifm mentioned in our Supplication : (6) It may now like your -i'-' 1 ! i" ii°the: 3 Su - ' Majefties, that for the Accomplifhment of our Promife made in the faid Supplication, that is, to repeal, primly and See ' all Laws and Statutes made contrary to the faid Supremacy and See Apoftolick, during the faid Schifm, Apoftolick fince ' the which is to be underftood fince the xx. Year of the Reign of the faid late King Henry the Eighth, and i he Time of the ' f the f a ij L orc j Legate doth accept and recognife the fame. T'-e Statute of ' ^' Where in the Parliament begun and holden at JVeftminfter in the xxi. Year of the Reign of the late ii H. 3.' c. 13. ' King of famous Memory, King Henry the Eighth, one Air. was then and there made againft Pluralities lriacie againft ' of Benefices, for taking of Ferms by Spiritual Men and for Non-refidence, in the which Act, amongil Pluralities of a ' other Things, it was ordained and enacted, That if any Perfon or Perfons, at any Time after the nrit Benefices, taking i rj a y of April in the Year of our Lord God one thoufand five hundred and thirty, contrary to the fame s • UuTu/en, ' Act, mould procure and obtain at the Court of Rome, or elfewhere, any Licence or Licences, Union, and Non-iefi-' ' Toleration or Difpenfation, to receive and take any more Benefices with Cure than was limited and ap- oence. ' pointed by the fame Act, or elfe at any Time after the faid Day mould 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 himfelf, or receiving and taking fuch Benefice by Force ' of fuch Licence or Licences, Union, Toleration or Difpenfation, that is to fay, the fame Perfon or ' Perfons only, and no other, mould for every fuch Default incur the Danger, Pain and Penalty of twenty s Pound Sterling, and fliould alfo lofe the whole Profits of every fuch Benefice or Benefices, as he re- ' ceiveth 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 Perfon or Perfons did procure or ' obtain at the Court of Rome, or elfewhere, any manner of Licence or Difpenfation to be JNon-refident at ' their Dignities, Prebend or Benefices, contrary to the faid Aft, that then every fuch Perfon or Perfons ' putting in Execution any fuch Difpenfation or Licence for himfelf, from the faid firfl Day of April in ' the Year of our Lord God MDXXX, mould run and incur the Penalty, v Damage and Pain of xx. 1. ' Sterling 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 A£r. more plainly it doth and may appear.' A Repeal of fo IV. Be it enacted by the Authority of this prefent Parliament, That as much only of the faid Act as much ot toe Sva- concerne (-) 1 j^g Articles and Claufes aforefaid, and all and every the Words and Sentences contained in the c" i as is ' ' ^ a '^ Act* concerning the faid Articles and Claufes, and every of them, {hall from henceforth be repealed, ab we-mention- adnulled, revoked, annihilated and utterly made void for ever ; any Thing in the faid Act to the contrary in ed. any wife notwithftanding. 23 H. 8. c. 9. ' V. And where alfo at the Seffion of the fame Parliament holden upon Prorogation in the xxiii. Year of ' the Reign of the faid late King Henry the Eighth, one Act entituled, The Act that no Perfon fhall be ' cited out of the Diocefs where he or fhe dwelleth, except in certain Cafes ; ji H. 8. c. 11, ' VI. And where alfo at the faid Parliament, in the Seffion holden zx.JVeftminJier upon Prorogation in ' the xxiv. Year of the Reign of the faid late King Henry the Eighth, one Act was made, that Ap- 4 peals in fuch Cafes as hath been ufed to be purfued to the See of Rome, mould not from henceforth ' be had or ufed, but within this Realm ;' Not printed ' VII. And where alfo at the faid Parliament holden at Wejlminjler 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 f April in the xxvii. Year of his Reign, one Act was made concerning Reftraints of Payments of An- ' nates and Firft-ffuits of Archbifhop ricks and Bifhopricks to the See of Rome.' 33 H. 3. c. 19. ' VIII. And where at a Seffion of the faid Parliament holden in the five and twentieth Year of the Reign ' of the laid late King, there was alfo one Act made, entituled, The Submiffion of the Clergy to the King's ' Majefty. 25 H. 8. c. 20. ' IX. And one other A.ct, entituled, One Ait reftraining the faid Payments of Annates or Firft-fruits to ' the Bifhop of Rome, and of the Electing and Confecrating of the Archbifhops and Bifliops within this ' Realm. 15 H. 3. c. 2t. ' X. And one other Act was then and there made, entituled, An Act concerning the Exoneration of the ' King's Subjects from Exactions and Impofitions before that Time payed to the See of Rom:, and for ' having Licences and Difpenfations within this Realm, without fuing further for the fame.' A Repcalof the XI. be it enacted by the Authority of this prefent Parliament, That the faid feveral Acts made for the before recited Reftraint of Payments of the faid Annates and Firft-fruits, and all other the faid Acts 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 Sentence in them and every of them contained, (hall be by Authority of this prefent Parliament from henceforth utterly void, made fruftrate and repealed, to all Intents, Conftruc- tions and Purpofes. 26 H. 3. c. 1. XII. And be it further enacted by the Authority of this prefent Parliament, That all and every thefe Acts following, that is to fay, one Act made at the Seffion of the faid Parliament holden upon Prorogation at IFeJhninJler in the xxvi. Year of the Reign of the faid-lafe King Henry the Eighth, entituled, An Act concerning the King's Highnefs to be Supreme Head of the Church of England, and to have Authority to reform and redrefs all Errors, . Hereftes and Abufes in the fame ; 26 H. 3. c. 14. XIII. And one other Act made in the fame Seffion of the fame Parliament, entituled, An Act for No- mination and Confecration ofSuffragans within this Realm ; 27 H, 8, c. 15. XIV. And one other Act made in the xxvii. Year of the Reign of the faid late King Henry the Eig'ith, entituled, An Act whereby the King mould have Power to nominate thirty-two Perfons of his Clergy and Lay-fee for the making of Ecclefiaftical Laws j, XV. And