+Source.+--25 H. VIII. cap. 19. (_Statutes of the Realm_, III 469.)
... And be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, that from the
Feast of Easter, which shall be in the year of our Lord God, 1534, no
manner of appeals shall be had, provoked, or made out of this realm,
or out of any of the King's Dominions, to the Bishop of Rome, nor to
the See of Rome, in any causes or matters happening to be in
contention, and having their commencement or beginning in any of the
courts within this realm, or within any of the King's dominions, of
what nature, condition, or quality soever they be of; but that all
manner of appeals, of what nature or condition soever they be of, or
what cause or matter soever they concern, shall be made and had by the
parties agreed, or having cause of appeal, after such manner, form and
condition, as is limited for appeals to be had and prosecuted within
this realm in causes of matrimony, tithes, oblations and observations,
by a statute made and established since the beginning of this present
Parliament, and according to the form and effect of the said statute:
any usage, custom, prescription or any thing or things to the contrary
hereof notwithstanding.
And for lack of justice at or in any the courts of the Archbishops of
this realm, or in any the king's dominions, it shall be lawful to the
parties grieved to appeal to the King's Majesty in the King's Court of
Chancery; and that upon every such appeal, a commission shall be
directed under the great seal to such persons as shall be named under
the King's Highness, his heirs or successors, like as in case of
appeal from the Admiral's Court, to hear and definitely determine such
appeals and the causes concerning the same. Which commissioners, or
appointed, shall have full power and authority to hear and so by the
King's Highness, his heirs or successors, to be named definitively
determine every such appeal, with the causes and all circumstances
concerning the same; and that such judgement and sentence as the said
commissioners shall make and decree, in and upon any such appeal,
shall be good and effectual, and also definitive; and no further
appeals to be had or made from the said commissioners for the same.
THE ECCLESIASTICAL APPOINTMENTS ACT. THE ABSOLUTE RESTRAINT OF
ANNATES, ELECTION OF BISHOPS AND LETTERS MISSIVE ACT (1534).
+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.
ACT FORBIDDING PAPAL DISPENSATIONS AND THE PAYMENT OF PETER'S PENCE
(1534).
+Source.+--25 H. VIII. cap. 21. (_Statutes of the Realm_, III. 464.)
For where this your Grace's realm recognizing no superior under God,
but only your Grace, has been and is free from subjection to any man's
laws, but only to such as have been devised, made, and ordained within
this realm, for the wealth of the same, or to such other as, by
sufferance of your Grace and your progenitors, the people of this your
realm have taken at their free liberty, by their own consent, to be
used amongst them, and have bound themselves by long use and custom to
the observance of the same, not as to the observance of the laws of
any foreign prince, potentate, or prelate, but to the accustomed and
ancient laws of this realm, originally established as laws of the
same, by the said sufferance, consents, and custom, none otherwise.