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A. D. 1558. Mansion or Dwelling-House or Houses or any of them, or to take any other Lands or tenements commonly used and kept in the Manurance, Tillage or Manual Occupation of any Archbishop or Bisop, for the Maintenance of Hospitality and good Housekeeping; any Thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

IV. Saving to all and every Person and Persons, Bodies Politick and Corporate, their Heirs and Successors, and to the Heirs and Successors of every of them, other than the said Archbishops and Bishops and their sucessors, all such Estate, Right, Title, Term, Interest, Rent, Profit, Offices or Commodities as they or any of them have, should, might or ought to have had, in or to any Honours, Castles, Manors, Lands, Tenements or other Hereditaments whatsoever, in such like Manner. Form and Condition, to all intent and Purposes, as if this Act had never been had nor made; any Thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

V. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all Gift, Grants, Feoffments, Fines or other Conveyance or Estates, from the first Day of this present Parliament, to be had, made, done or suffered by any Archbishop or Bishop, of any Honours, Castles, Manors, Lands, Tenements or other Hereditaments, being Parcel of the Possessions of his Archbishopriek or Bishoprick, or united, appertaining or belonging to any the same Archbishopricks or Bishopricks, to any Person or Persons, Bodies Politick or Corporate, other than to the Queen's Highness, her Heirs or Successors, whereby any Estate or Estates should or may pass from the same Archbishops or Bishops or any of them, other than for the Term of xxi. Years or three lives, from such Time as any such Lease Estates fliould or may pafs from the fame Archbifhops or Biftiops or any of them, other than for the fcfgfl' ,07 ** Term of xxj. Years or three Lives, from fuch Time as any fuch Leafc, Grant or Affurancc fhall begin, c- .c-r. 16J4*. and whereupon the old accuftomed yearly Rent or more, fhall be referved and payable yearly during/'..:. ,". s. 5O4. the faid Term of xxj. Years or three Lives, fhall be utterly void and of none Effect, to all Intents, Con- ductions and Purpofcsj, any Law, Cuftom or Ufagc to the contrary in any wife notwithftanding.

P. XX.

A Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage, granted to the Queen during her Life, payable out of divers Merchandises EXP.

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An Act of a Subsidie and two Fifteenes and Tenth, by the Temporaltie. See Appendix.

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{{R sidenote|PR. & EXP.}}An Act giving Authority to the Queen during her Life to make Ordinances in Collegiate Churches and Schools.

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{{dropinitial|A}}{{uc|t}} the Parliament holden at Westminster the twelfth Day of January in the fifth Year of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth, by the Grace of God, of England, France and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, &c.. To the high Pleasure of Almighty God, and the Weal Publick of this Realm, were enacted as followeth. {{center|{{larger block|{{sp|CA}}P. I.

An Act for the Assurance of the Queen's Royal Power over all Estates and Subjects within her Dominions.}}}}

{{di|F|fl='}}OR Preservation of the Queen's most excellent Highness, her Heirs and Successors, and the Dig- nity of the Imperial Crown of this Realm of England, and for avoiding both of such Hurts, Perils, Dishonours and Inconveniencies, as have before-time befallen, as well to the Queen's Majesty's Noble Progenitors, Kings of this Realm, as for the whole Eatate thereof, by Means of the Juriadiction and. Power of the See of Rome, unjustly claimed and usurped within this Realm and the Dominions thereof, and also of the Dangers by the Fautors of the said usurped Power, at this Time grown to marvellous Outrage and licencious Boldness, and now requiring more sharp Restraint and Correction of Laws, than hitherto in the Time of the Queen's Majesty's most mild and merciful Reign have been had, used or established:'

II. Be it therefore enacted, ordained and established by the Queen our Sovereign Lady, and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this present Parliament asembled, and by Authority of the same, That if any Person and Persons, dwelling, inhabiting, or resiant within this Realm, or within any other the Queen's Dominions, Seigniories, or Countries, or in the Marches of the same, or else- where within or under her Obeysance and power of what Estate, Dignity, Prheminence, order, De- gree or Condition, soever he or they, be after the first Day of April which shall be in the Year of our Lord God one thousand five hundred and sixty-three, shall by Writing, Chyphering, Printign or Preaching or Teaching, Deed or Act, advisedly and wittingly hold or stand with, to extol, set forth, maintain or {{hws|s=de|e=fend}} {{right|fend}} {{sidenotes end}}