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Appointment of Bishops Act 1533

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45: 268:, the College of Canons must now perform the functions conferred by the Appointment of Bishops Act 1533 on the dean and chapter, and that Act accordingly has effect as if references to the dean and chapter were references to the College of Canons. This applies to every cathedral church in England other than the cathedral church of Christ in Oxford. 239:
held an election for a new bishop and customarily chose the candidate supported by the King. The Act bound the cathedral chapter to elect the candidate whom the King selected in his "letter missive". If the dean and chapter declined to make the election accordingly, or if the bishops of the church
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A new bill dealing with the annates was introduced into the House of Lords on 27 February and passed it on 9 March and was approved in the Commons a week after. Parliament thus passed this Act, which ended all annates. The Act as finally enacted did not require the payment of annates to the Crown,
208:, ne other profit that the Pope now hath out of this realm, but that the same shall be paid to our said Sovereign to retain for his defence and the realm, till it shall please his Highness otherwise to dispose and order the same to the Pope or see apostolik. 187:
to strengthen royal finances. Sometime before January 1533, the Crown prepared a list of "acts necessary to be made at this Parliament," and one item included what the historian Stanford E. Lehmberg believes is probably the first known source for this Act:
220:, it did not meet with such approval and was subsequently dropped. Historians do not know the original wording of the bill nor the reason for it being dropped. After the passage of the Annates Act in 1531, however, the 204:, or otherwise for the said marriage, which is ratified and established by this realm, that then no subject of this realm after such attempt shall pay to the Pope any manner of annates, porcions, pensions, 519: 224:
had complained that the annates "utterly undone and impoverished" them. Therefore, Stanford Lehmberg postulates that the Lords Spiritual probably objected to the King retaining annates.
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early in the session of Parliament in 1534. The bill seemingly encountered little opposition in the Commons, possibly because of persuasion of Cromwell. In the
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These words are printed against this Act in the second column of Schedule 2 to the Statute Law Revision Act 1948, which is headed "Title".
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Thus the Act was meant to transfer the payment of annates from the Pope to the King and was introduced to the
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The Absolute Restraint of Annates, Election of Bishops, and Letters Missive Act 1534 25 Henry VIII c.20
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The citation of this Act by this short title was authorised by section 5 of, and Schedule 2 to, the
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rendering it financially useless to the King, clearly a partial victory for the clergy.
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The preamble and sections 1 and 2 were repealed by section 1 of, and Part II of the
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Act Concerning Ecclesiastical Appointments and Absolute Restraint of Annates
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refused to consecrate the King's candidate, then they would be punished by
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This Act remains partly in force in England and Wales at the end of 2010.
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attempts to vex our Sovereign Lord the King of this realm, by
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The other part of the Act dealt with the method of electing
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An Acte restraynyng the payment of Annates, &c.
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Index

Act in Absolute Restraint of Annates
Parliament of England
Long title
Citation
25 Hen. 8
Royal assent
Revised text of statute as amended
25 Hen. 8
Act
Parliament of England
English Reformation Parliament
annates
de jure
ecclesiastical
de facto
Act of Conditional Restraints of Annates
23 Hen. 8
Thomas Cromwell
Henry VIII of England
Holy See
King of England
Pope
interdiction
excommunication
Peterpens
House of Commons of England
Upper House
Lords Spiritual
bishops
cathedral

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