3 November 1529
Sir Thomas More's Opening Speech - Wolsey a Castrated Ram
1st Legislative Session 3 November 1529 - 17 December 1529
Executors No 4 of the Session
A Summary
The Full Act ; An Act concerning Executors of last Wills and Testaments.
Probate fees, inventories, etc. No 5 of the Session
A Summary
The Full Act : An Act concerning Fines and Sums of Money to be taken by the Ministers of Bishops and other Ordinaries of Holy Church for the Probate of Testaments.
Mortuaries Act No 6 of the Session
A Summary
The Full Act: An Act concerning the taking of Mortuaries, or demanding, receiving or claiming of the same.
Pluralism No 13 of the Session
A Summary
The Full Act: An Act that no Spiritual Persons shall take to farm, of the King or any other Person, any Lands or Tenements for Term of Life, Lives, Years or at Will, &c.; and for Pluralities of Benefices; and for Residence
All Acts of the First Session
December 1530
In the King's Bench - The Whole Clergy were Indicted for Praemunire
2nd Legislative Session 16 January 1531 - 31 March 1531
Benefit of Clergy No 1
A Summary
The Full Act : An Act that no Person committing Petty Treason, Murder or Felony, shall be admitted to his Clergy, under Sub-deacon
Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Act No 9
A Summary
The Full Act : An Act that no Person shall be cited out of the Diocese where he or she dwelleth, except in certain Cases
Mortmain No 10
A Summary
The Full Act : An Act for Feoffments and Assurances of Lands and Tenements made to the Use of any Parish Church, Chapel or such like
Pardon of Clergy No 15
A Summary
An Act concerning the pardon granted to the King’s Spiritual Subjects of the Province of Canterbury for the Praemunire, upon payment of one hundred thousand pounds
All Acts of the Second Session
3rd Legislative Session 15 January 1532 - 14 May 1532
1532 Conditional Restraint of Annates No 20 of the Session
Suspension of traditional payments to Rome
By the end of the 1532 session, therefore, the king, through the work of Parliament, had gained control over the clergy and overthrown the medieval constitution as between the spiritual and the temporal
1532 Supplication against the Ordinaries
(The Petition of the Commons)
Summary of Supplication
A petition passed by the House of Commons detailing grievances against Church of England prelates and the clergy
1532 The Answer[s] of the Ordinaries
The response of the clergy to the petition
1532 Submission of the Clergy
The English church submitted to the King’s authority. No church law in future would be legal without his consent
Although the submission was agreed in Convocation, sitting at the same time as Parliament, in 1532 it was not introduced into civil law until 1534
During the following phase of the Reformation, Parliament, with additional legislation, would sever the jurisdiction of the pope in England
All Acts of the Third Session
4th Legislative Session 4 February 1533 - 7 April 1533
1533 The Ecclesiastical Appeals Act 1532 - The Preamble
An Act making the King the final legal authority in England to the exclusion of Rome.
'Where by divers sundry old authentic histories and chronicles it is manifestly declared and expressed that this realm of England is an empire...
Sir Thomas More's Opening Speech - Wolsey a Castrated Ram
1st Legislative Session 3 November 1529 - 17 December 1529
Executors No 4 of the Session
A Summary
The Full Act ; An Act concerning Executors of last Wills and Testaments.
Probate fees, inventories, etc. No 5 of the Session
A Summary
The Full Act : An Act concerning Fines and Sums of Money to be taken by the Ministers of Bishops and other Ordinaries of Holy Church for the Probate of Testaments.
Mortuaries Act No 6 of the Session
A Summary
The Full Act: An Act concerning the taking of Mortuaries, or demanding, receiving or claiming of the same.
Pluralism No 13 of the Session
A Summary
The Full Act: An Act that no Spiritual Persons shall take to farm, of the King or any other Person, any Lands or Tenements for Term of Life, Lives, Years or at Will, &c.; and for Pluralities of Benefices; and for Residence
All Acts of the First Session
December 1530
In the King's Bench - The Whole Clergy were Indicted for Praemunire
2nd Legislative Session 16 January 1531 - 31 March 1531
Benefit of Clergy No 1
A Summary
The Full Act : An Act that no Person committing Petty Treason, Murder or Felony, shall be admitted to his Clergy, under Sub-deacon
Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Act No 9
A Summary
The Full Act : An Act that no Person shall be cited out of the Diocese where he or she dwelleth, except in certain Cases
Mortmain No 10
A Summary
The Full Act : An Act for Feoffments and Assurances of Lands and Tenements made to the Use of any Parish Church, Chapel or such like
Pardon of Clergy No 15
A Summary
An Act concerning the pardon granted to the King’s Spiritual Subjects of the Province of Canterbury for the Praemunire, upon payment of one hundred thousand pounds
All Acts of the Second Session
3rd Legislative Session 15 January 1532 - 14 May 1532
1532 Conditional Restraint of Annates No 20 of the Session
Suspension of traditional payments to Rome
By the end of the 1532 session, therefore, the king, through the work of Parliament, had gained control over the clergy and overthrown the medieval constitution as between the spiritual and the temporal
1532 Supplication against the Ordinaries
(The Petition of the Commons)
Summary of Supplication
A petition passed by the House of Commons detailing grievances against Church of England prelates and the clergy
1532 The Answer[s] of the Ordinaries
The response of the clergy to the petition
1532 Submission of the Clergy
The English church submitted to the King’s authority. No church law in future would be legal without his consent
Although the submission was agreed in Convocation, sitting at the same time as Parliament, in 1532 it was not introduced into civil law until 1534
During the following phase of the Reformation, Parliament, with additional legislation, would sever the jurisdiction of the pope in England
All Acts of the Third Session
4th Legislative Session 4 February 1533 - 7 April 1533
1533 The Ecclesiastical Appeals Act 1532 - The Preamble
An Act making the King the final legal authority in England to the exclusion of Rome.
'Where by divers sundry old authentic histories and chronicles it is manifestly declared and expressed that this realm of England is an empire...
