The Reformation and the Renaissance by Frederick Bewsher

Author:Frederick Bewsher
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jovian Press

THE ECCLESIASTICAL APPOINTMENTS ACT. THE ABSOLUTE RESTRAINT OF ANNATES, ELECTION OF BISHOPS AND LETTERS MISSIVE ACT (1534).

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Source. —25 H. VIII. cap. 21. (Statutes of the Realm, III. 462.)

AND FOR AS MUCH AS in the said Act it is not only plainly and certainly expressed in what manner and fashion archbishops and bishops shall be elected, presented, invested, and consecrated within this realm and in all other the King’s Dominions; be it now therefore enacted by the King our sovereign Lord, by the assent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons, in this Present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the said Act, and everything herein contained shall be and stand in strength, virtue, and effect; except only, that no person or persons hereafter shall be presented, nominated, or commended to the said Bishop of Rome, otherwise called the Pope, or to the See of Rome, to or for the dignity or office of any archbishop or bishop within this realm, or in any other the King’s Dominions, nor shall send nor procure there for any manner of bulls, briefs, palls or other things requisite for an archbishop or bishop, nor shall pay any sums of money for Annates, first-fruits or otherwise, for expedition of any such bulls, briefs or palls; but that by the authority of this act, such presenting, nominating, or commending to the said Bishop of Rome, or to the See of Rome, and such bulls, briefs, palls, annates, first-fruits, and every other sums of money heretofore limited, accustomed, or used to be paid at the said See of Rome, for procuration or expedition of any such bulls, briefs or palls, or other thing concerning the same, shall utterly cease and no longer be used within this realm or within any of the King’s Dominions: anything contained in the said Act aforementioned, or any use, custom, or prescription to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.

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