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118 Bishop of any See or Diocess 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 Aporstolick, and other things requisite to the same; or mall 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 vince 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 be letted, deferred, delayed, or otherwife disturbed from the same Archbishoprick for lack of Pall, Bulls, or other to or other to him requisite, to be obtained in the Court of Rome in that behalf such person named and presented to be Archbishop, may be, and shall, be consecrated after presentation made, as is aforesaid, by any other two Bishops within this Realm, whom the King's Highness, or any of his Heirs or Successors, Kings of England for the time being will assign and appoint for the same, according and in like manner as divers other Archbishops and Bishops have heretofore in ancient time, by sundry the King's most noble Progenitors, made, consecrated and invested within this Realm: And that every Archbishop and Bishop hereafter, being named and presented by the King's Highness, his Heirs or Successors, Kings of England, and being consecrated and invested as is aforesaid, shall be installed accordingly, and shall be accepted, taken, reputed, used and obeyed, as in Archbishop or Bishop of the Dignity, See or Place whereunto he so shall be named presented and consecrated, requireth; and as other like Prelates of that Province, See, or Diocess have been ussed accepted, taken, and obeyed, which have had, and obtained compleatly, their Bulls, and other things requisite in that behalf from the Court of Rome. And also shall fully and entirely all the Spiritualities and Temporalities of the said Archbishoprick, or Bishoprick, in as large, ample, and benetical manner, as any of his precessors had, or enjoyed in the said Archbishoprick, or Bishoprick ssatisfying and yielding unto the King our Sovereign Lord and to his Heirs and Sucessors Kings of England, all such Duties Rights ans Intrests, as before this time had been accustomed to be paid for any such Archbishoprick, or Bishoprick, according to the Ancient Laws and Customs of this Realm, and the King s prerogative Royal.

'III. And to the intent our said Holy Father the Pope, and the Court of Rome shall not think the pains and labours taken, and hereafter to be taken, about the writing, sealling, obtaining, and other businesses sustained, and hereafter to be sustained, by the Offices of the said Court of Rome, for and about the Expedition of any Bulls hereafter to be obtained or had any such Archbishoprick, or Bishoprick, shall be irrenumerated, or shall not be sufficiently and condignly recompenssed in that behalf; and for their more ready expedition to be had therein.' It is therefore enacated by the Authority aforesaid, That every Spiritual Person of this Realm, hereafter to be named, presented or postulated, to any Archbishoprick or Bishoprick of this Realm, shall and may lawfully pay for the writing and obtaining of his or their said Bulls, at the Court of Rome, and ensealng the same with Lead to be had without payment of any Annates, or First-Fruits, or other charge or exaction by him or them to be made, yielded, or paied for the same, five pound's Sterling, for and after the rate of the clear and whole yearly value of every hundred pounds Sterling, above al1 charges of any such Archbishoprick, or Bishoprick, or other Mony, to the value of the said five pounds, for the clear yearly value of every hundreth pounds of every such Archbishoprick, or Bishioprick, and not above, nor in any otherwise thing in this present Act before written notwithstanding. And forafsmuch as the Kings Hignness 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 prinpally coveting to disburden this Realm of the said great exactions and intolerable charges of annates,and First-Fruiis, 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, amicably charitably, and reasonably, to compound, other to extinct and make frustrate the payments of the said Annates, or First-Fruits or else by same 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 an compositions once 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 ordained, 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, a 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 made and entered of Record in the Roll of 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 thereof, 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 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 ratife, shall stand and be from henceforth utterly void and of none effect. And in case that the King's Higness, before the expiration of the time aforesaid, do declare by his said Letters Patents, his pleasure and determination to be, that the said premisses, or every clause, sentence, and part thereof, that is to say, the whole, or such part thereof as the King's