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A.D. 1558. CAP. X.

A Confirmation of a Subsidy of eight Shillings in the Pound, granted by the Clergy to the King and Queen, to be paid in four Years, EXP.

 CAP. XI. An Act of a Subsidy and one Fifteen, granted by the Temporality. EXP.

 

At the Parliament begun at Westminster the xxv. Day of January in the first Year of, the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth, by the Grace of God, of England, France and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, &c. And then and there holden, kept and continued until the Dissolution of the same, being the eighth Day of May then next ensuing, were enacted as followeth.

CAP. I.

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.

OST humbly beseech your most excellent Majesty, your faithful and obedient Subjects the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this your present Parliament assembled, That where in Time of the Reign of your most dear Father, of worthy Memory, King Henry the Eighth, divers good Laws and Statutes were made and established, as well for the utter Extinguishment and putting away of all usurped and foreign Powers and Authorities out of this your Realm, and other your Highness Dominions and Countries, as also for the restoring and uniting to the Imperial Crown of this Realm, the ancient Jurisdictions, Authorities, Superiorities and Preheminences to the same of Right belonging or appertaining, by Reason whereof we your most humble and obedient Subjects, from the xxv. Year of the Reign of your said dear Father, were continually kept in good Order, and were disburdened of divers great and intolerable Charges and Exactions before that Time unlawfully taken and exacted by such foreign Power and Authority as before that was usurped, until such Time as all the said good Laws and Statutes by one Act of Parliament made in the firsst and second Years of the Reigns of the late King Philip and Queen Mary, your Highness Sister, entituled, An Act repealing all Statutes, Articles and Provisions made against the See Apostolick of Rome since the twentieth Year of King Henry the Eighth, and also for the Establishment of all Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Possessions and Hereditaments conveyed to the Laity, were all clearly repealed and made void, as by the same Act of Repeal more at large doth and may appear; by Reason of which Act of Repeal, your said humble Subjects were eftsoons brought under an usurped foreign Power and Authority, and do yet remain in that Bondage, to the intolerable Charges of your loving Subjects, if some Redress (by the Authority of this your High Court of Parliament, with the Assent of your Highness) be not had and provided:'

II. May it therefore please your Highness, for the repressing of the said usurped foreign Power, and the restoring of the Rights, Jurisdictions and Preheminences appertaining to the Imperial Crown of this your Realm, that it may be enacted by Authority of this present Parliament, That the said Act made in the said first and second Years of the Reigns of the said late King Philip and Queen Mary, and all and every Branches, Clauses and Articles therein contained (other than such Branches, Clauses and Sentences, as hereafter shall be excepted) may from the last Day of this Session of Parliament, by Authority of this present Parliament, be repealed, and shall from thenceforth be utterly void and of none Effect;

III. And that also for the reviving of divers of the said good Laws and Statutes made in the Time of your said dear Father, it may also please your Highness, That one Act and Statute made in the xxiii. Year of the Reign of the said late King Henry the Eighth, intituled, An Act, That no Person shall be cited out of the Diocess wherein he or she dwelleth, except in certain Cases;

IV. And one other Act made in the xxiv. Year of the Reign of the said late King, intituled, An Act, That Appeals in such Cases as hath been used to be pursued to the See of Rome, shall not be from henceforth had no used, but within this Realm;

V. And one other Act made the xxv. Year of the said late King, concerning Restraint of Payment of Annates and First-fruits of Archbishopricks and Bishopricks to the See of Rome;

VI. And one other Act in the said xxv. Year, intituled, An Act concerning the Submission of the Clergy to the King's Majesty;

VII. And also one Act made in the said xxv. Year, intituled, An Act Restraining the Payment of Annates or First-fruits to the Bishop of Rome, and of the Electing and Consecrating of Archbishops and Bishops within this Realm;  VIII. And