Anno primo & secundo Philippi & Mariae.  
ACTS made at a Parliament, begun and held at Westminster, the xii day of November, in the first and second year of the reign of our sovereign Lord, and Lady Philip and Mary, by the grace of God, king & Queen of England, France, Naples, jerusalem, and Ireland, defenders of the faith, Princes of Spain and Cycilie, archdukes of Austria, dukes of Myllayn, Burgundy, and Braband, counties of Haspurge, Flaunders and tyrol, and there continued and kept to the dissolution of the same, being the xvi day of january than next ensuing, were enacted as followeth.  
Cum privilegio Regiae Maiestatis.   

The Table.  

AN Act touching letters patents, & other writings to be signed by the queens Majesty. Cap. i.  
An act for the reformation of excess in apparel. Cap. two.  
An acce against seditious words & rumours. Cap. iii.  
An act for the punishment of certain persons calling themselves Egyptians. Cap. iiii.  
An act for to restrain the carrying of corn, victuals, and wood over the sea. Cap. v.  
An act for the reviving of three statutes made for the punishment of heresies. Cap. vi.  
An act that persons dwelling in the country, shall not sell divers wares in cities, and Towns corporate by retail. Cap. seven.  
An act repealing all Statutes, articles, and provisions, made against the sea apostolic of Rome, since the twenty year of King Henry th'eight, and also for the stablishment of all spiritual, and ecclesiastical possessions, and hereditaments conveyed to the laity. Cap. viii.  
An act for the punishment of Traitorous words against the queens Majesty. Cap. ix.  
An act whereby certain offences be made treasons, and also for the government of the kings and queens majesties issue. Cap. x.  
An act for the punishment of bringing in of counterfeit coin of forr eyen realms, being current within this realm. Cap. xi.  
An act touching the impounding of distresses.  
An act appointing in order to justices of peace touching the baylement of prisoners. Cap. xiii.  
An act for the making of russels satins, satins reverses, and fusti an of Naples in Norwiche. Cap. xiiii.  
An act to confirm the liberties of the Lord-Marchers in Wales. Cap. xv.  
An act for the continuance of certain statutes. Cap. xvi.  
An act touching leases hereafter to be made by certain spiritual persons. Cap. xvii    

¶ An Act touching letters patents, and other writings, to be signed by the Queen's majesty.  
¶ The first Chapter.  
WHEREIN THE parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the second day of April, in the first year of the reign of our most dread and gracious sovereign Lady the Queen's majesty, and there continued and kept, till the dissolution of the same, being the fift day of May, than next following, one Act was made touching the articles of her highness most noble marriage. In the which act amongst other things it is enacted, ordered, and established by authority of the said parliament, that all and singular gifts, grants, letters patents, exchanges, confymations, leases, and other writings, which after the said marriage, and during the same, should pass, and be made of any benefices, offices, lands, revenues, and fruits, or of any of them, should be entitled and made in the names of our sovereign Lord the king, and of her most excellent highness, whether his majesty should be present within the Realms and dominions of her highness, or within any of them, or absent. And that the same gifts, grants letters patents, exchanges, confirmations, leases, and other writings, so set forth and made, should be sealed, and fyrmed with the sign manuel of her highness, and the same so signed and sealed with the great seal of this realm or with such seal as hath been accustomed, should be by th'authority of the said parliament, deemed, adjudged, declared, and pronounced to be as good perfect, and of like force, strength, & effect in the law, to all intentes, constructions, and purposes, against oursayde sovereign Lord and Lady, the king and the Queen's majesties, and her highness heirs and Successors, as if her majesty had been at the time of the making thereof, sole and unmarried, and that all gifts. grants, letters patents, esechaunges, confirmations leases, and other writings, which after the said marriage, and during the time of the same, should pass, and be made of the said benefices, offices, lands, revenues, and fruits, or of any of them, where unto the sign manuel, of herhighnesse, should not be set, made of put, shallbe by authority of the said parliament, from time to time, deemed, adjudged, accepted, taken, and decreed, to be of no force, ne effect, but utterly frustrate and void in the law, to all intentes, constructions, and purposes, the said marriage, or any law, usage or custom to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding, as by the said Act more at large doth appear.  
sithence the making of which Statute, and the solemnisation of the said marriage, the Queen's most excellent majesty hath been greatly molested, grieved, & troubled, with often signing of letters patents, gifts, grants, exchanges, leases, and other writings concerning and touching benefices, offices, lands, revenues, and fruits, made and granted by, and from our said sovereign Lord the king, and her highness, to sundry of their most loving subjects, to whom also it hath been, and is, no small charge to attend until such time as they may procure and obtain the sign manuel of her highness, unto their said letters patents, gifts grants, exchanges, confirmations, and leases, without which sign, the same are utterly void, by force of the said Statute, to the great danger, loss, and utter undoing of divers persons, that have lately bought, purchased, or obtained of our said sovereign Lord and Lady, the king and queens majesties, divers lands, tenements, and other hereditaments, to their great costs and charges.  
For remedy whereof be it enacted by the authority of this present parliament, that the said branch and article, touching, or concerning only the signing of letters patents, gifts, grants, eschaunges, confirmations, leases, or of other writings for any lands, benefices, offices, revenues, fruits, or other hereditaments, shallbe from henceforth clearly repelled, and made frustrate, and void, to all intentes, and purposes.  
And be it further enacted by authority of this present parliament, that all and singular letters patents, touching, or concerning any gift grant, exchange, confirmation, lease, or other writing, the which sithence the said marriage, hath passed, and be made of any benefices, offices, manors, lands, tenements, revenues, fruits, liberties, or other hereditaments, or of any of them, in the names of our most dread sovereign Lord and Lady, the king and the queens majesties (the warrant or writing, or warrauntes or writings whereof being signed with her highness sign manuel, in such form, order, and degree, as the same heretofore have been accustomed to be signed, when her highness was sole, and unmarried) shallbe by authority of this present parliament, of the same like force, strength, and effect in the law, to all intentes, constructions, and purposes, as if the same were, or had been signed by her highness sign manuel, and as if her majesty had been at the time of the making thereof sole and unmarried, and as they were before the making of the said act. The said statute, or any branch, or article therein contained to the contrary in any wise, notwithstanding.   

An Act for the reformation of excess in apparel,  
¶ The ii Chapter.  
BE IT enacted by th'authority of this present Parliament, that no person borne within this realm, or the dominions of the same, other than the son & heir apparent of a knight, or other than such, as may dispend twenty li. by the year in lands, offices fees, or other yearly revenues for term of life, or be worth in goods. two. C. li shall after the first day of Apryll next coming wear any manner of silk, in or upon, his hat, bonnet night cap, girdle, scabbard, hose, shoes, or spur lethers, upon pain of three months imprismonent, & forfeitures of ten li forevery days wearing contrary to the tenor of this act.  
AND be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that justices of Assizes in their circuities, justices of peace in their sessions, Sheriffs in their turns, Stewards in letes and law days, Majors, Sheriffs, and bailiffs of cities boroughs, & towns corporate in their courts, shall, and may inquire, hear and determine from time to time, all and every the saydoffences, committed, or done within the limits of their several jurisdictions, and avethorities, and where any such forfeitures shall happen to be found within the precince of any city, bourough, town corporate, let or law day, than the Mayor, Sheriff, & bailiffs of the said cities, boroughs, and towns, and owner of the said let or law days, to have the one moiety of the said forfeitures, and tother moiety to be to any subject of this realm, that will sue for the same in any couct of record by action information, bill, or otherwise, in which no wager of law protection, or assoigne shallbe allowed. And where such forfeiture shallbe found out of any city, borough, town, let, or law day that the moiety of all such forfeitures, shallbe to the king & Queen's maiestses, and the heirs to the Queen, and tother moiety thereof to any of their subjects, that will sue, for the same by bill plaint, action, information, or otherwise in any court of record, as is aforesaid, in the which no wager of law, or protection, essoign shallbe admitted or allowed. And that all and every such person & persons, as have authority by virtue of this Act, to hear and determine the premises may upon the conviction of every such offender, award process unto the Sheriff of any shire within this realm, for the apprehension of the said offender, which being apprehended, shallbe committed by the sheriff unto the goal of the said shire, there to remain without bail or mainprize until the said offendor hath paid the said for feature, wherein he is so convicted.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any person or persons, of what estate, condition, or degree soever he or they be after the said first day of Apryl next coming, knowing and servant or servants of his or theirs to offend contrarieto this act, do not put the same out of his or their service but shall keep in his or their setuice, the same offendor or offenders by the space of xiiii. days, next after such knowledge had, or else being so put out of his or their service, shall retain the same offender or offenders to his or theyrseruice again within one year nextensuing the time of committing of any such offence, the same person or persons, so keeping or retaining again, in, or to his or their service any such servant or servants, offending contrary to the tenor of this act as is aforesaid, shall for every his or their offence forsayt C.li of law full money of England, the moiety whereof to be to the king and Queen's majesties use and the heirs & successors of the Queen, and the other moiety to him, that will sue for the same in any court of record, by action, bill, plaint, information, or otherwise wherein no wager of law, essoign, or protection shallbe admitted or allowed.  
provided alway, and be it enacted that this act, or any thing therein contained, shall not extend to any person being of or above the degree of a knight's son, or daughter, or being wife to any of them, nor to such as have been, be, or shallbe Mayor, Bailiff Alderman, or head officer in any city borough, or town corporateor to the wife of any of them, nor to any of the kings, or Queen's servants in ordinary wages attendant, and wearing the kings or queens ordinary liveries, but that they, and every of them, may use and we are as they, or any of them might lawfully use and wear, before the making of this act.  
Provided also that no person shallbe compelled by this act, to put away his prentice or hired servant before th'end of the term before agreed between them, nor that any master shall forfeit or lose any pain or forfeiture for the keeping of his prentice or hired servant after his offence contrary to this act, unto th'end of the term before agreed between them any thing above said to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
Provided also, that women may wear in their caps, hats, girdles, and hoods, as they or any of them might use and wear lawfully before the making of this act.   

¶ An Act against seditious words and rumours.  
¶ The iii Chapter.  
WHere it is contained as well in the Statute of Westm. the first, as in the Statute made at Glocestre the second year of the reign of King Richard the second, that no man should be so hardy to contrive, speak, or tell any false news, lies, or other such like false things of Prelates Dukes, Earls, Barons, and other nobles & Pears of the realm, or of the Chancellor, Tresuter, Clerk of the privy seal, Steward of the king household, justices of the one bank or of tother or of any other great officers of this realm. And that every such offender should be taken, and imprisoned, until such time, as he had brought him or them forth which did speak the same. And where also at a Parliament holden at Cambridge, in the xxii year of the reign of the said king Richard, it was also enacted, that where any such offender as is aforesaid should be taken and imprisoned, and could not find him of whom he heard those news, which he spoke, as is aforesaid, that then the same speaker should be punished by th'advice of the counsel, as by the same Acts amongst other more plainly do and may appear.  
Be it enacted by th'authority of this present Parliament, that all and every the said former Acts and Statutes shall be, and remain in their full force strength and effect, to all intentes, constructions, and purposes. And further, that justices of the peace in every Shire, city, and town corporate, within the limits of their several commissions, shall by authority of this present Act, have full power to examine, hear, and determine the causes abovesaid, in the said two first Acts specified, and to put the said two first statutes, and every branch in them contained in due execution that from henceforth condign punishment be not defarred from such offendour●  
And forasmuch as diverse and sundry malicious and evil disposed persons maliciously, sediciousiye, rebelliously, and unnaturally, contrary to the duty of their fidilities and allegiaunces have now of late not only imagined, invented, pratized, spoken, and spread abroad diverse and sundry false, seditions, and slanderous news rumours, sayings, and tales, against our most dread sovereign Lord and King, and against our most natural sovereign Lady and Queen, and against either of them, of whom we are forbidden to think evil, and much more to speak evil, which offience soundeth, and is as well to the great dishonour, reproach and slander of their most excellent majesties, as also to the great slander of this their realm, and other their dominions, but also have devised, made, written, printed, published, and set forth diverie heinous, seditious, and slanderous writings, rhymes, ballads, letters, papers, and books, intending and practising thereby to move and stir seditions, discord dissension, & rebellion within this realm, to the great peril and danger of the same.  
For avoiding whereof, be it enacted by th'authority of this present Parliament that if any person or persons, after the twenty day of February next ensuing, and after open Proclamation made of this Act, shall maliciously, of his or their imagination, speak any false seditious, & slanderous news, rumours, sayings, or tales of our said Sovereign Lord & King, or of our said most natural Sovereign Lady & Queen, that then all & every such person and persons so offending, being thereof convicted or attainted, in form hereafter, in this Act exprssed, shall for every first offence, in some market place, within the shire, City or Borough, where, or near unto the place where the said words were, or shallbe so spoken be set openly upon the pylory, by the Sheriff or his ministers, if it shall fortune to be with out any city or town corporate. And if it happen to be within such city or town corporate, them by the principal officer or officers of such city or town corporate or his or their ministers, and there to have both his ears cut of, unless he pay one hundredth pounds to the King and queens highness use within one month next after judgement given of his said offence, and also shall suffer imprisonment by the space, of three months, after such his or their execution.  
And it is like wise enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that all, and every person & persons which after the said day, and after Proclamation made of this Act, shall maliciously speak any false, seditious, and slanderous news, rumers, or tales, to the slander and reproach of our said sovereign Lord the King, or of our said most natural sovereign Lady the Queen, of the speaking or reporting of any other, that then all, and every such person or persons so speaking and reporting, being thereof convict or attainted, in form hereafter, in this act expressed, shall for every such offence in some market place within the shire, city, borough, or town, where or near unto the place, where the said words were or shallbe so spoken & reported, be set openly upon the pillory by the sheriff or his ministers, if it shalfortune to be with out any city or town corporat. And if it shall hap to be within such city or town corporate, then by the principal officer or officers of such city or town corporate, or his, or their ministers, and there to have one of his ears cut of unless he pay one hundred marks to the kings & Queen's highness use, within one month next after judgement given of his said offence, and also shall suffer imprisonment by the space of one month after his or their execution.  
And be it further enacted by thauthority aforesaid, that if any person or persons shall after the said day and after Proclamation made as is aforesaid, maliciously devise, wryt, print, or set forth any manner of book, rhyme, ballad, lettre, or wrytyug, containing any false matter, clause, or sentence of slander, reproach, and dishonour of the king & queens majesties, or of either of them, or to the encouraging, stirring or moving of any insurrection or rebellion within this realm, or any the dominions belonging to the same. Or whosoever shall maliciously procure any such book, rhyme ballad, letter, or writing, to be written, printed, or set forth (and the said offence not being punishable by the Statute, made in the xxv year of the reign of king Edward the third, concerning treasons, or declaration of treason) that then, and in every such case, the offender and offenders there in after his or their conviction or attainder, shall for his or their first offence, in some market place, within the shire, city, or borough, where the said offence, is, or shallbe committed or done, by the sheriff, or his ministers, if it shall fortune to be without any city, or town corporate, and if within such city or town corporate, then by the principal officer, or officers of such city or town corporate, or by his or their ministers, have his and their right hand stricken of.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that if any person or persons, being once lawfully convicted of any of th'offences aforesaid, now provided to be punished by the execution of losses of ear, ears, or hand, as is aforesaid, do afterwards, eftsoons offend in any of th'offences aforesaid, that then he or they so offending, shall suffer imprisonment, during his or their lives, without bail or mainprize, and forfeit & lose to the king and Queen's majesties all his and their goods and chattels.  
And it is also enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that justices of oyer & determiner, within the limits of their commission, justices of assize in their several circuits, justices of jail delivery, and justices of peace, as well within the liberties as without, within the limits of their several commissions, in their general sessions, or other sessions, which they or two of them whereof one of them to be of the Quorum may, and shall appoint at their pleasure, where, and when need shall require, & shall by virtue hereof have full power and authority to inquire, hear, and determine, all and every th'offences aforesaid, as in cases and trial of felony. And that the party indicted and arraigned, shall have advantage of all manner of challenges to the jury (peremptory challenge only except) as in trial of felony.  
And also that every justice of peace within the limits of his commission shall have full power and authority to commit any person, being vehemently suspected of any of the said offences, toward, there to remain without bail or mainprize, until he shallbe delivered, according to this Act.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that no manner of person or persons shallbe molested, or impeached for any of th'offences, concerning speaking, or reporting, as is aforesaid, unless he or they be thereof accused and convicted within three months, next after his or their said offence so committed or done. And in case any person shallbe imprisoned for any of the said offences, concerning speaking or reporting, and not thereof convicted, within three months, next after his offence supposed to be by him done and committed, that then the person so imprisoned shallbe set at liberty, and no longer detained in prison.  
Provided also, and be it enacted by authority aforesaid, that every such major, Maiours, Bailiffs, and other head officer and officers of cities, boroughs, and towns corporate which have, or hereafter shall have iurisdittion and authority, within the several limits of their office or offices, to hold and keep sessions, as justice or justices of the peace shall, and may by authority hereof, as well arrest and commit to ward, all, & every person and persons, being vehemently suspected of any of th'offences aforesaid, as also to proceed to th'execution, hearing, and determining of every the said offences, and to see, and make due execution thereof, according to the purport, meaning and effect of this present Act. any thing in the same act heretofore made to the contrary notwithstanding.  
Provided always, that the said justice of peace, as well within liberties as without, the which shall for any the offences aforesaid, commit any person or persons to ward, as is aforesaid, shall within ten days, next after such committing, with one other justice, whereof one of them to be of the Quorum direct their precept to the Sheriff or sheriffs of the county, where th'offence shallbe committed, or to other ordinary officer, if it be within any city, or town corporate, where the Sheriff can not intromytte, commanding him or them by the same impanel and return, as they shall assign xxiiij good and lawful men of his or their baylywyke or baylywykes, to inquire of the said offence or offences the which any such person or persons shallbe so imprisoned for. And thereupon within one month after the date of the said precept, to proceed and determine, as above is expressed. Every one of the same justices, upon the pain of. x.li. to be paid to the king & Queen's highnesses, as often as they shallbe founden in default of any the same.  
Provided also and be it enacted, that this Act shallbe proclaimed in all the shires within this realm, before the xii day of Februarye next coming, to th'intent that all persons may have notice thereof and avoid the peril and danger that might ensue by offending against the same. And this Act to be only in force, until the end of the next Parliament, and no longer.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that none of the pears of this realm shallbe arrested or imprisoned for any of the said offences, but only by order or commandment, given from the Kings and queens privy counsel, or of the heirs of the Queen, and that the said pears, and every of them, that shall hereafter fortune to be indicted of any the offences aforesaid, shallbe tried by their pears, as before hath been accustomed in caces of treason or felony.   

¶ An Act for the punishment of certain persons calling themselves Egyptians.  
¶ the iii Chapter  
WHere in a parliament holden at Westminster in the xxii year of the reign of our late Sovereign Lord King Henry th'eight (for the avoiding and banishing out of this realm of certain outlandish people, calling themselves Egyptians, using no craft nor fear of merchandises for to live by, but going from place to place, in great companies, using great, subtle, and crafty means, to deceive the kings Subjects, bearing them in hand, that they by palmistry could tell mens and woman's fortune, and so many times by craft and subtlety, deceive the people of there money, and committed divers great and heinous felonies, and robberies, to the great hurt and deceit of the people). It was amongst other things then enacted that from the time of the making of the said Act, on such persons should be suffered to come within this the kings realm upon pain of forfayture to the king, all their goods and cattles, and then to be commanded to avoid the realm within xv days next after the commandment, upon pain of imprisonment, and such persons calling themselves Egyptians, as then were within this realm, should depart within xvi days next after proclamation of the said Act upon pain of imprisoment and forfeiture of all their goods and cattles with divers other clauses & articles contained in the said act, as by the said Act more at large it appeareth. Forasmuch as divers of the said company, and such otherlike persons, not fearing the penalty of the said Statute, have enterprised to come over again into this realm, using their old accustomed devilish, and naughty practices and devices, with such abominable living, as is not in any Christian realm to be permitted, named, or known, and be not duly punished for the same, to the perilous and evil example of our sovereign Lord and Lady, the king and Queen's majesties most loving subjects, and to the utter and extreme undoing of divers and many of them, as evidently doth appear.  
For reformation whereof, be it ordained and enacted by the king and Queen our sovereign Lord and Lady the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons in this present parliament assembled and by th'authority of the same, that if any person or persons, after the last day of january next coming, do willingly transport, bring, and convey into this realm of England, or Wales, any such persons calling themselves, or commonly called Egyptians, that then he or they, so transporting, bringing, or conveying in, any such persons, contrary to the true meaning of this Act, shall forfeit and lose for every time so offending, forty pounds of lawful money of England.  
And be it further enacted by the authority, aforesaid that if any of the said persons called Egyptians, which shallbe transported and conveyed into this realm of England or Wales, as is aforesaid, do continue, and remain within the same, by the space of one month, that then he or they so offending, shall by virtue of this act, be deemed and adjudged a felon, and felons, and shall therefore suffer pains of death, loss of lands and goods, as in cases of felony, by thor dre of the common law of this realm, and shall upon the trial of them, or any of them, therein be tried in the county, and by thinhabitants of the county or place, where they or he shallbe apprehended or taken, and not Per medietanem linguae, and shall lose the benefit and privilege of sanctuary and clergy.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that if the Egyptians, and other persons, commonly calling themselves Eyptians, and every of them, now being within this realm of Eugland, or Wales, do not depart out of the same within twenty days next after proclamation of this present act shallbe made, that then he or they which shall not depart within the said time according to the true meaning of this Act, shall forfeit and lose all his and their goods and cattles, and that then it shallbe lawful to all and every the king and the queens subjects, to seize the same, th'one moiety thereof to be to the use of our sovereign Lord & Lady the king & the Queen, and tother moiety thereof to be the use of him or them that shall, so seize the same.  
And be it also enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that if the Egyptians, and other persons commonly called Egyptians, and every of them, now being within this realm of England or Wales, do not depart out, and from the same within xl days next after proclamation shallbe made of this act that then he or they, which shall not departed, and avoid within the said time of xl days, according to the true meaning of this act, shallbe adjudged and deemed according to the laws of this realm of England afellon, and felons, and shall suffer therefore pains of death. loss of lands and goods, as in other cases of felony, and shallbe tried as is before said, and without having any benefit or privilege of Saynttuary or clergy.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that if any person after the first day of Ianuarye next coming, shall sue for the obtaining of any lecence, lettre, or passport, for any of the said persons called Egyptians, to abide or continue within this reamle of England or Wales, contrary to the tenor of this act, that then every such person so suing, shall forfeit and lose for the same forty pounds of lawful money of England, and that every such licence, letter & passport, shallbe by virtue of this act void, to all intentes and purposes, th'one moiety of all which sums of money to be forfeited, as is before said, shallbe to the King and Queen our sovereign Lord and Lady, and tother moiety thereof to be him or them, that will sue for the same, in any court of record, by action of decte b●● plaint, or information, wherein any essoign, wager of law, nor protection, shallbe admitted and allowed.  
Provided always and be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that this present act, nor any thing therein contained, shall not extend, nor be hurtful to any of the said persons, commonly called Egyptians which within the said time of twenty days next after the said proclamation to be made, as in before said, shall leave that naughty idle, and ungodly life, and company, and be placed in the service of some honest and able inhabitaunte or inhabitants, within this realm, or that shall honestly exercise himself in some law full word or occupation, but that he or they so continuing in service or other lawful work or occupation, shall during such time as he or they shall so continue, be discharged of all pains, and forfeitures, contained in this act.  
Provided also, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that this act shall not in any wise extend to any child or children, being not above the age of xiii years, nor to any of the laid persons, being now in prison so that he or they so being in prison, do departed out of this realm, within xiiii days next after his or their diliverie out of prison, nor shall extend to charge anyemaner of person or persons, as accessary to any offence or offences, contained or specified in this statute.   

¶ An act to restrain carrying of corn, victuals, and wood over the sea.  
¶ The .v. Chapter.  
WHere as sundry good statutes and laws hath been made within this realm in the time of the Queen's highness most noble progenitors, that none should transport, carry or convey out of this realm into any place in the parties beyond the seas any corn, butter, cheese, or other victual (except only for the vitailing of the town of Caleys, Hames, & Guysnes, and the marches of the same, upon diverse great pains and forfeitures in the same contained, that notwithstanding, many and sundry covetous and unsatiable persons, seeking their only lucre's and gains, hath, and daily doth carry and convey innumerable quantity, aswell of corn, cheese butter, and other victual, as of wood out of this realm, into the parties beyond the seas. By reason whereof the said corn, victual, & wood, are grown unto a wonderful dearth, and extreme prices, to the great detriment of the Common wealth of this your highness realm, and your faithful subjects of the same.  
For remedy whereof, it may please your highness that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by your highness, by th'assent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this present parliament assembled, and by th'authority of the same, that no manner of person or persons, after the twenty day of january next coming shall carry and transport out of this realm by any Ship, Craier, or other vessel, whatsoever, into any place in the parties beyond the seas, or into the realm of scotland, any wheat, rye, barley, or other corn or graingrowing within this realm, or any malt made within the same or any bear, butter, cheese, herring or wood, except only to and for the victualling and furniture of the towns of Calais, Hames, and Guisnes, and to the town of Berwick and the marches of the same, with out sufficient and lawful authority so to do, upon the pains & penalties hereafter ensuing, that is to say, thowner and owners of the said ships and other vessels, to forfeit the said ships, crayers, and other vessels, with all their apparels, to them and every of them belonging, wherein the said corn, butter, cheese, herring, byctuall, or wood, shallbe so transported and carried and the owners and owner of the said corn, butter, cheese, hearing, and wood, to forfeit the double value of the same, so carried and conveyed, and the master & mariners of every of the said ships crayers, and vessels, for every such offence, to forfeit all their goods, and to be imprisoned, by the space of one whole year without bail or mainprize.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that if any person or persons, after the said twenty day of january, do carry and convey away by Boat, Crayer, or other vessel, or otherwise any wheat rye, barley, malt, or other corn or grain, or any bear, butter cheese, herring or wood to any Ship or Vessel, being on the Seas, or within any Haven, creak, or other place of the border of this Realm to be transported, carried, and conveyed into any place in the parties beyond the Seas, or into the realm of Scotland, without sufficient authority so to do, that then every owner of the said victuals corn, and other things abovesaid so transported or carried and the owner and owners of every such boat or vessel, and the boatmen and mariners of the same shall lose, forfeit, and suffer all such forfeitures, pains, and penalties, as is above rehearsed, th'one moiety of all and every which forfeiture or forfeitures, to be to the King and Queen's highness, their heirs and successors, and tother moiety to him or them, that will sue for the same by bill, information, action of debt, or otherwise in any of the King and Queen's highness courts of record, in which action, bill, or suit, the defendant shall not wage his law, nor have any essoign or protection to him allowed.  
And be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that if any person or persons shall obtain of the King and queens majesties, their heirs or successors, or of any of them, any licence to carry and transport any corn, victual, or wood, into any parts beyond the seas, that if he or they, to whom any such licence shallbe granted, or any other, to whom such person or persons, having such licence shall give, grant or fell his or their said licence unto, shall carry, and convey, or cause to be carried and conveyed any more corn, victual or wood, than shallbe contained in his or their said licence shall forfeit the triple value of the said corn, victual, or wood, so carried and transported, without sufficient authority, and shall suffer imprisonment for one whole year in the common goal, where he shallbe apprehended, there to remain without bail or mainprize.  
And be it further enacted by thauthority aforesaid, that no manner of person or persons, after the said twenty day of january, that shall obtain, or have any such licence for transporting and carrying any corn, victual, or wood, into any parties beyond the seas, shall ship, lad, and fraught the same, or any part thereof, at sundry places within this realm, but at one place certain, upon pain of forfeiture of the said corn, victual, & wood, and all his goods & cattles, th'one moiety thereof to the King and queens maieslies, their heirs & successors, and tother moiety to him or them that will sue for the same by action of debt, bill, plaint, information, or otherwise, where in no wager of law, essoign or protection shall be to him or them allowed,  
And for the better execution of this act, be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all and singular justices of peace as well within the liberties as without, within their several authorities & commissions at any time, within three years next after such offences committed, shall have full power and authority to inquire aswell by the oaths of twelve lawful men, as also to hear and examine the master, masters, and mariners of the said ships, crayers, & other vessels, and all, and every other person and persons, of all, and singular th'offenders against this present Act, and to hear and determine the same offences, as they may, and aught to hear and deter mine any other tresspasses, or offences.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by thauthority aforesaid, that at all time and times hereafter, when the common price of corn within this realm is, that wheat shall not exceed the price of. vi.ss. viii. d. the quarter, & 'tis. iiii.s. the quarter, & barley iii shillings the quarter, it shallbe lawful to every person and persons to carry & transport over the sea to any place beyond the seas at their pleasure of the said kinds of corn, so that it be not to the king and queens enemies.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that this Act, ne any thing therein ronteyned, shall extend to any person or persons for the necessary victeling of any ship, ships, or other vessels, but that they, and every of them, may victual the said ships and vessels, as they might have done before the making of this present act. This act or any thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that this act, or any thing therein contained, shall not be prejudicial or hurtful unto the Lord great Admiral of England, for the time being, or to the King and queens majesties jurisdiction of the Admiralty, but that the said Lord Admiral, or his deputy, or deputies may and shall exercise, use, and execute all kind of jurisdiction, be longing to the sea, according to his or their commissions, as they might lawfully have done heretofore. This act or any thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.   

¶ An Act for the reviving of three statutes made for the punishment of heresies.  
¶ The vi Chapter  
FOr the escheving and avoiding of errors & heresies which of late have risen, grown, and much increased within this realm, for that the Ordinaries have wanted authority to proceed against those, that were infected therewith. Be it therefore ordained and enacted by the authority of this present parliament, that the Statute made in the fift year of the reign of king Richard the second, concerning the arresting and apprehension of erroneous and heretical preachers, and one other Statute, made in the second year of the reign of king Henry the fourth, concerning repressing of heresies, and punishment of heretics, and also one other statute made in the second year of the reign of king henry the fift concerning the supression of heresies and lollardrye, and every Article, Branch, and sentence conteygned in the same three several Acts, and every of them, shall from the twenty day of january next coming, be revived, and be in full force, strength, and effect, to all intentes, constructions and purposes for ever.  

¶ The tenor of the first act, made in the fifth year of king richard, is as followeth. Chap. v.  
ITem, forasmuch as it is openly known, that there be diveres evil persons within the realm, going from county to county, and from town to town, in certain habits, underdissimulation of great holiness, & with out the licence of the Ordinaries of the places, or other sufficient authority, preaching daily, not only in Churches & churchyards, but also in markets, Fairs, & other open places, where a great congregation of people is, divers Sermons containing heresies, & not or your errors, to the great embleamishing of the christian faith, and destruction of the Laws, and of the estate of holy Church, to the great pericle of the souls of the people, and of all the realm of England, as more plainly is found, and sufficiently proved, before the reverend father in God the archbishop of Canterbury, and the bishops, andother prelate's, masters of divinity, and doctors of Canon and of civil, and a great part of the clergy of the said realm: especially assembled for this cause: which persons do also preach divers, matters of siaunder, to engender discord and dissension betwixt divers estates of the said realm: aswell spiritual, as temporal, in exciting of the people, to the great peril of all the Realm, which preachers cited or summoned before the Ordinaries of the places, there to answer of that whereof they be impeached, will not obey to their summons and commandments, nor care not for their monitions nor censures of the hole church, but expressly despice them: And more over, by their subtle and ingenious words, do draw the people to here their Sermons, and do maintain them in their errors by strong, hand by great coutes: It is ordained and assented in this present Parliament that the kings commissions be made and directed to the Sheriffs and other ministers of our sovereign Lord the king, or other sufficient persons learned, and according to the certifications of the prelate's thereof to be made in the Chancery, from time to time, to arrest all such preachers, and also their fautors, maintainers, and abettors, and to hold them in arrest and strong prison, till they wiliustifie them according to the law and reason of holy Church. And the king will and commandeth, that the chancellor make such comissions at all times, that he by the prelate's, or any of them shallbe certified, and thereof required, as is aforesaid.   

¶ The tenor of the second act, made in the second year of king Henry the four is as followeth. Cap. xv.  
ITem where as it is showed to our sovereign Lord the King, on the behalf of the prelate's and clergy of his realm of England in this present parliament, that although the catholic faith builded upon Christ and by his Apostles, and the holy church sufficiently determined, declared and approved, hath been hither to by good and holy, and most noble progenitors of our sovereign Lord the king in the said Realm, amongst all the realms of the world, most devoutly observed, and the Church of England, by his said most noble progenitors and ancestors, to the honour of God, and the whole realm aforesaid, laudably endowed, and in her rights and liberties sustained, without that that the same faith, or the said Church was hrute or grievously oppressed, or else perturbed by any perverse doctrine, or wicked heretical or erroneous opinions: yet nevertheless, divers false and perverse people, of a certain new sect of the faith of the Sacraments of the Church, and the authority of the same, damnably thinking, and against the law of God and of the church, usurping the office of preaching, do perversely and maliciously, in divers places within the said realm, under the colour of dissimuled holiness, preach and teach these days openly and privily divers new doctrines, and wicked heretical and erroneous opimons contrary to the same faith, and blessed determinations of the holy Church. And of such sect and wicked doctrine and opinions they make unlawful conventicles, and confederaties, they hold and exercise schools, they make and write books, they do wickedly instruct & inform people, and asmuch as they may, excite and stir them to sedition and insurrection, and maketh great strife and division among the people, and other enormities horrible to be hard daily do perpetrate and commit, in subversion of the said catholic faith, and doctrine of the holy church, in diminution of God's honour and also in destruction of the estate, rights, and liberties of the said church of England, by which sect and wicked and false preachings, doctrines, and opinions of the said false and perverse people, not only most greatest peril of the souls, but also many more other hurts slanders, and perils (which God prohibit) might come to this realm unless it be the more plentifully and speedily holden by the kings majesty in this behalf, namely where as the diocesans of the said realm cannot by their jurisdiction spiritual, without aid of the said royal Majesty, sufficiently correct the said false and perverse people, nor refrain their malice, because the said false and perverse people do go from Diocese to Diocese, and will not appear before the said Diocesans, but the same Diocesans, and their jurisdiction spiritual, and the keys of the church, with the censures of the same, do utterly contemn and despise, and so their wicked preachings and doctrines, doth from day to day continue and execise, to the hatred of right and reason, and utter destruction order and good rule. Upon which nowelties and excesses above rehearsed. The Prelates and clergy aforesaid, and also the commons of the sayde realm, being in the same parliament, praying our sovereign Lord the king, the his royal highness would vouchsafe in the said parliament, to provide a conneunient remedy, the same our sovereign Lordethe king, graciously conside ring the premises, and also the laudable steps of his said most noble progenitors and ancestors, for the conservation of the said catholic faith, and sustentation of God's honour, and also the safeguard of the estate, rights, and liberties of the said Church of England, to the laud of God, and merit of our said sovereign lord the king, and prosperity & honour of all his said realm, and for the eschewing of such dissensions, divisions, hurts, slanders, and periles, in time to come, and that this wicked sect, preachings, doctrines and opinions, should from henceforth cease, and be utterly destroyed, by th'assent of the states, & other discrete men of the realm being in the said parliament, hath granted, established, and ordained from hence forth, firmly to be observed, that none within the said realm or any other dominions, subjects to his royal majesty, presune to preach openly or privily, without the licence of the Diocesan of the same place, first required and obtained, curates in their own churches, & persons he thereto privileged, and other of the canon law granted, only except. Nor that none from henceforth any thing preach, hold teach, or instruct, openly or privily, or make or write any book, contrary to the catholic faith or determination of the holy church nor of such sect and wicked doctrines and opinions, shall make any conventicles, or in any wise hold or exercise Scholes. And also that none from henceforth in any wise favour such preacher, or maker of any such, & like conventicles, or holding or exercsing schools, or making, or writing such books, or so teaching, infourminge, or exciting the people nor any of the in maintain, or in any wise sustain. And that all, and singular having such books or any writings of such wicked doctrine and opinions, shall really with effect deliver, or cause to be delivered all such books & writings to the Diocesan of the same place, within xl days from the time of the proclamation of this ordinance & statute. And if any person or persons, of whatsoever kind, estate, or condition that he or they be, from henceforth do, or accempt against the royal ordinance & statute aforesaid in the premises or in any of them or such books in the form aforesaid, do not deliver, than the diocesan of the same place in his diocese such person or persons in this behalf defamed, or evidently suspected, & every of them may by the authority of the said ordinary and Statute, cause to be arrested, and under safe custody in his prisons to be detained, till he or they of the articles laid to him or them in this behalf, do canonically purge him or themself, or else such wicked sect, preachings, doctrines, and heretical and, erroneous opinions, do abjure, according as the laws of the church doth require, so that the said diocesan by himself, or his commissaries, do openly and judicially proceed against such persons so arrested, and remaining under his sauce custody to all effect of the law, and determine that same business, according to the Canonical decrees, within three months after the said arrest any lawful impediment ceasing. And if any person in any case above expressed, be before the diocesan of that place, or his commissaries canonically convict, than the same diocesan may do to be kept in his prison the said person so convict, for the manner of his default, and after the quality of the offence, according and as long as to his discretion shall seem expedient, and moreover to put the same person to the secular court, except in cases where he according to the canonical decret aught to be left, to pay to our sovereign lord the king, his pecunier fine, according as the same fine shall seem competent to the diocesan, for the manner and quality of the offence, in which case the same diocesan, shallbe bound to certify the king of the same fine in his exchequer, by his Letter patents, sealed with his seal, to the effect that such fine by the kings authority, may be required and levied to his use of the goods of the same person so convict. And if any person within the said realm and dominions, upon the said wicked preachings, doctrines, opinions, schools, and heretical and erroneous informations, or any of them be before the diocesan of the same place, or his commissaries sencencially convict & the same wicked sect, preachings, doctrines and opinions, schools, & informations, do refuse duly to abjure, or by the diocesan of the same place or his commissaries after the abjuration made by the same person pronounced, fall in to relapse, so that according to the holy canons, he ought to be left to the secular court, whereupon credence shallbe given to the diocesan of the same place, or to his commissaries in this behalf, than the sheriff of the county of the same place, and Mayor and sheriffs or sheriff, or Mayor and Bailiffs of the city, town, and borough of the same county next to the same diocesan, or the said commissaries, shallbe personally present in preferring of such sentences, when they by the same diocesan or his commissaries shallbe required: & they the same persons and every of them, after such sentence promulgate, shall receive: and them before the people in an high place do to be brent, that such punishment may strike in fear to the minds of other, whereby no such wicked doctrine and hereticail, and erroneous opinions, nor their abettors and fautors in the said realm & do minions against the catholic faith, christian law and determination of the holy church (which God prohibit) be sustained, or in any wise suffered, in which all, and singular the premises, concerning the said ordinance and statute, the sheriffs, majors, and bailiffs, of the said counties, cities, boroughs, and towns, shallbe attending, aiding, & supporting, to the said diocesans and their commissaries.   

¶ The tenor of the third Act, made in the second year of king Henry the fift, is as followeth. Cap. seven.  
ITem forasmuch as great rumours, congregations, & in surrections, here in the realm of England by diverse of the kings liege people, as well by them which were of the sect of heresies commonly called lollardrie, as by other of their confederacy, excitation, & abetment, now of late were made, to the intent to annul, destroy, and subvert the christian faith, and the law of God and holy church within this same realm of England, & also to destroy, the same our sovereign lord the king, & all other manner of estates of the same realm of England as well spiritual as temporal, and also all manner of policy and finally the laws of the land: The same our sovereign lord the king, to the honour of god, and in conservation & fortification of the christian faith, and also in salvation of his royal estate, and of the estate of all his realm, willing against the malice of such heretics and Lollards to provide a more open remedy and punishment than hath been had and used in the case heretofore, so that for fear of the same laws and punishment, such heristes and lollardries may the rather cease in time to come, by the advise and assent aforesaid, and at the prayer of the said commons, hath ordained and established: that first the chancellor, treasurer, justices of the one bench and of the other, justices of peace, sheriffs, majors, and bailiffs of cities and towns, and all other officers, having governance of people, which now be, or hereafter for the time shallbe, shall make an oath in taking of their charges and occupations, to put their whole power & diligence, to put out and do to be put out, cease, & destroy all manner of heresies and errors, commonly called lollardries within the places where they exercise their offices & occupations from time to time with all their power, & that they assist the ordinaries, and their commissaries & them favour & maintain as often as they or any of them to that shallbe required by the same ordinaries or their commissaries, so that when the said officers & ministers travail or ride to arrest any lollard, or to make assistance at the instance & request of the ordinaries or their commissaries by vertne of this statute, that the same ordinaries & commissaries shall pay for their costs reasonably. And that the kings services, to the which the same officers be first sworn, be preferred before all other statutes for the liberty of holy church & the ministers of the same, and in especial for the correction & punishment of the heretics and Lollards before this time made and not repelled being in their force. And also that all persons convict of heresy, of what estate, condition, or degree that they be, by the said ordinaries or other commissaries left to the secular power, according to the laws of holy church, shall lose and forfeit all their lands and tenements, which they have in fee simple in the manner as followeth, that is to say, that the king have all the lands & tenements, which the said convicts have in fee simple & holden of him immediately as forfeit, & that the other lords, of whom the lands & tenements of such convicts be bolden immediately, after that the king is so seace & answered of the year the day, and the waist, have livery out of the kings hands of the lands & tenements aforesaid of them so holden, as it hath been used in the case of attainder of felony, except the lands & tenements, which be holden of the ordinaries or their commissaries, before whom any such persons impeached of heresy be convict, which lands & tenements, entirely shall remain to the king as forfeit. And moreover that all the goods & cattles of these persons so convicted, be forfaytto our sovereign lord the king, so that no person convict of heresy, & left to the secular power after the laws of holy church, shall forfeit his lands before that he be dead. And if any such person so convict, be enfeffed be it by fine by deed, or without deed, in lands or tenements, rents, or services, in fee or otherwise, or hath any other possessions or cattles by gift or grant of any person or persons to another's use them to the use of such convicts, that the same lands nor tenements, rents nor services, nor such other possessions, nor cattles shallbe forfeit to our sovereign lord the king in no wise. And moreover that the justices of the kings bench, & justices of peace, & justices of assize, have full power to inquire of all them, which hold any errors or heresies, as Lollards, & which be their maintainers, receivers, favourers & sustemers, comen writers of such books as well of the sermons, as of their schools, conventicles, congregations and confederacies. And that this clause be put in commissions of the justices of the peace. And if any persons be indicted of any points aforesaid the said justices shall have power to award against them a Capias, and the sheriff shallbe bound to arrest the person or persons so indicted as soon as he may them find by him or by his officers. And forasmuch as the congnisaunce of heresy, errors & lollardries, belongeth to the judges of holy church, and not to the secular judges such persons indicted shallbe delivered to the ordinaries of the places or to their commissaries, by indentures betwixt them to be made, within ten days after their arrest, or sooner if it may be, thereof to be acquit or convict by the laws of holy church, in case that these persons be not indicted of an other thing, whereof the cognisance belongeth to the secular judges and officers, in which case, after that, that they be acquit or delivered before the secular judges of such things to the secular judges belonging, they shallbe sent in safeguard to the said ordinaries, or to their commissaries, and to them delivered by indentures, as before to be acquit or convict of such lollardryes, errors, or heresies, as is aforesaid, after the laws of holy church, and that within the term aforesaid.  
Provided always that the said endictementes be not taken in evidence but for information before the spiritual judges against such persons so indicted, but that the ordinaries commence their process against such persons indicted in the same manner as though no endictement were, having no regard to such endictmentes. And if any be indicted of heresy, error, or lollardrye, and taken by the Sheriff or other officer, he shallbe let to main prise within the said ten days by good surety for whom the said Sheriffs or other officers will answer, so that the said person or persons, which were so indicted, be ready to be delivered to the said ordinaries, or to their commissaries, before the end of the said ten days, if he may by any means for sickness. And every ordinary shall have sufficient commissaries, or commissary dwelling in every county in a place notable, so that if any such person so indicted be taken, that the said commissaries, or commissary may be warned in the notable place where he dwelleth, by the Sheriff, or some of his officers, to come to the kings jail in the same county, there to receive the same person so indicted by indentures as before. And that in the inquest in this case to be taken, the Sheriffs and other officers, to whom it belongeth shall do to be empaneled good and sufficient persons, not suspected nor procured, that is to say, that every of them which shallbe so empaneled in such inquest, have within the realm of England. C. s. of lands, tenements, or of rent by year, upon pain to lose to the bynges use. x.li. and they which shallbe empaneled in such inquests in Wales, every of them shall have to the value of xl s. by year. And if any such person be arrested, be it by the ordinary, or by the kings officers or ministers, & escape or break the prison, before that he be acquit before the ordinary, the goods and cattles, which he had the day of such arrest, shallbe forfeyre to the king and his lands and tenements, which he had the same day, seized also into the kings hands, the king shall have the profits thereof from the said day, until he be yielded to the prison from which he escaped. And that the foresaid justices have full power to inquire of all such escapes, breaking of prison, and also of lands and tenements, goods and cattles of such persons so indicted.  
Provided also that if any such person indicted do not return to the said prison and dieth not convict it shallbe lawful to his heirs to enter into the lands and tenements of their ancestor, without any other pursuit making to the king for this cause, and then all they which have liberties and franchises royal in England, as in the county of Chester, the county and liberty of Durham, and other like, and also all the Lords, which have jurisdiction and franchises royal in Wales, where the kings writs do not run, have power to execute and put in due execution these articles, in all points by them or by their officers, in like manner as the justices and other the kings officers before declared should do.    

¶ An act that persons dwelling in the country, shall not sell divers wares in cities, or towns corporate by retail.  
¶ The vii Chapter.  
WHere before this time the ancient cities, boroughs, Towns corporate, & market towns within this realm of England, have been very populous, & chief inhabited with merchants, artificers, & handy crafts men during which time the children in the said cities, boroughs, towens corporate, & market towns were civilly brought up, and instructed, and also the said cities, boroughs, and towns corporate kept in good order and obeisance, and the inhabiters of the same well set on work, and kept from idleness. By reason whereof, the said cities, boroughs, and towns corporate, did then prosper in riches, and great wealth, and were as than not only able to serve and furnish the king and Queen's majesties, and other their noble progenitors, kings of this realm, aswell with great numbers of good able persons, and well furny shed meet for the wars, as also then charged ' and yet chargeable, with great fee farms, quyndemes, taxes, and divers other payments to the king and Queen's majesties, which at this present they be not able to pay and bear, but to their utter undoing, being few in number to pay and bear the same, but also the same cities, boroughs, and towns corporate, are like to come very shortly to utter destruction, ruin, and decay, by reason whereof the occupiers, linen, draperes,  drapers, haberdashars, and Grocers, dwelling in the countries out of the said cities, boroughs, towns corporate, and market towns, do not only occupy the art and mystery of the said sciences, in the places where they dwell and inhabit, but also come unto the said cities, boroughs towns corporate and market towns and there sell their wares, and take away the relief of the inhabitants of the said cities, boroughs, towns corporate, and market towns to the great decay, and utter undoing of the inhabitants of the same, if speedy reformation therein, be not had in time convenient For remedy whereof, and for the better amendment of the said cities boroughs, towns corporate, and market towns, and to th'end the same cities, boroughs, and towns corporate, may be the better able to pay the said fee fermes, and also to bear the other ordinary charges within the same cities, boroughs, and towns corporate, and to furnish the king and queens majesties, which numbers of able people, like as they heretofore have done in times past, in times of war.  
Be it therefore enacted by our sovereign Lord and Lady, the king and Queen, the lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this present parliament assembled, and by authority of the same, that any person or persons, which do now inhabit & dwell, or hereafter shall inhabit or dwell in the country any where or county within this realm of England, out of any of the said cities, boroughs, towns corporate, or market towns, from, and after the feast of S. Michael tharchangel next coming, shall not sell or cause to be sold by retail, any  cloth, linen cloth, haberdashe wares Grocery wares, mercery wares, at, or within any of the said cities, boroughs, towns corporate, or market towns, or within the suburbs or liberties of the said cities boroughs, towns corporate, & market towns, within this said realm of England (except it be in open fairs) upon pain to forfeit and lose for every time so offending the sum of vi. s. viii. d. and the hole wares so sold, proffered, and offered to be sold, contrary to the form, intent, and effect of this present act, as above is said, the one moiety of all which forfeitures, to be to the use of our said sovereign Lord and Lady the king and Queen's majesties, and the other half to him or them that shall seize and sew for the same in any of the king and queen's courts of record, by bill, plaint, action of debt, information or otherwise, where in no essoign, protection or, wager of law, shallbe allowed.  
Provided always, that this act shall not in any wise extend, nor be hurtful to any person or persons, that bring any of the said  cloth, linen cloth, haberdash, Grocery, mercery ware or wars, to any of the said cities, boroughs, towns corporate, or market towns to be sold, or cause to be sold by whole sale, in gross, and not byretayle, but they and every of them may lawfully sell the same, in as large and ample manner, form and, condition by whole sale in gross, & not by retail, as they and every of them, might have done at any time or times before the making of this act. Any thing here in to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
Provided always, that this present act shall not extend to any person or persons, that now dwell or inhabit in the country, or hereafter shall dwell or inhabit out of any of the said cities, boroughs, towns corporate, or market towns, but that they, and every of them at any time hereafter, when they, or any of them shallbe free of any the guilds, & liberties of any the said cities, boroughs, towns corporate, or market towns, and dwell or inhabit within any of the same cities, boroughs, towns corporate, or market towns, that they and every of them so being free, shall and may sell or cause to be sold, any of the wares aforesaid, by retail, in as ample and large manner as they, and every of them, might have done, being free of the said cities, boroughs, and towns aforesaid, before the making of this Act. Any clause or article in this act to the contrary notwithstanding.  
provided always, and be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid that it shallbe lawful to all persons, to sell or cause to be sold by retail or otherwise, all manner of cloth, linen, or , of their own making, in every city, borough, town corporate, and market town within this realm, as freely and frankly as they might have done before the making of this Act any thing in the same contained to the contrary hereof notwithstanding.  
Provided always, that this act, or any thing therein contained, shall not be prejudicial or hurtful to the liberties, and privileges of the universities of cambridge and Oxford, or either of them, Any thing in this Act heretofore mentioned to the contrary notwithstanding.   

¶ An Act repealing all Statutes, articles, and provisions, made Against the Sea apostolic of Rome, since the twenty year of King Henry the eight, and also for thestablishment of all spiritual and ecclesiastical possessions, and hereditaments conveyed to the laity.  
¶ The viii Chapter.  
WHere as since the twenty year of King Henry th'eight of famous memory, father unto your majesty, our most natural sovereign, and gracious Lady and Queen, much false and erroneous doctrine, hath been taught, preached, and written partly by divers, the natural borne Subjects of this realm & partly being brought in hither from sundry other foreign countries, hath been sown and spread abroad within the same. By reason whereof aswell the spirituality as the temporalty of your highness realms and dominions, have swerved from the obedience of the Sea apostolic, and declined from the unity of Christ's church, and so have continued, until such time as your majesty being first raised up by God, and set in the seat Royal over us, and then by his divine and gracious providence knit in marriage with the most noble & virtuous Prince, the king our sovereign Lord your husband, the Pope's holiness, and the Sea Apostolic, sent hither unto your majesties (as unto persons undefiled, and by God's goodness preserved from the common infection aforesaid) and to the whole realm, the most reverend father in God the Lord Cardinal Poole Legate, de latere to call us home again into the right way, from whence we have all this long while wandered, and strayed abroad. And we after sundry long, and, grievous plagues, and calamities, seeing by the goodness of god our own errors, have acknowledged the same unto the said most reverend father, and by him have been, and are the rather at the contemplation of your majesties, received and embraced into the unity and bosom of Christ's church, and upon our humble submission & promiss made for a declaration of our repentance to repeal and abrogate such acts and Statutes as had been made in parliament, since the said twenty year of the said king Henry th'eighteight, against the supremacy of the Sea Apostolic, as in our submission exhibited to the said most reverend father in God, by your majesties appeareth. The tenor whereof ensueth  
We the Lords spiritual, and temporal, and the commons assembled in this present parliament, representing the whole body of the realm of England, and the dominions of the same, in the name of ourselves particularly and also of the said body universally in this our supplication, directed to your majesties with most humbly suit that it may by your grace's intercession and mean be exhibited to the most reverend father in God, the Lord Cardinal Poole legate, sent specially hither from our most holy father Pope july the third, and the Sea Apostolic of Rome, do declare ourselves very sorry and repentant, of the schism and disobedience, committed in this realm and dominions aforesaid against the said Sea Apostolic, either by making, agreeing, or execting any laws, ordinances, or commandments, against the supremacy of the said Sea, or other wise doing or speaking, that might impugn the same: offering ourselves, and promising by this our supplication, that for a token & knowledge of our said repentance, we be and shallbe always ready under, and with thauthorities of our miaesties, to the uttermost of our powers, to do that shall lie in us, for the abrogation and repealing of the said laws and ordinances in this present parliament, aswell for ourselves as for the whole body, whom we represent, where upon we most humbly desire your majesties, as personages undefiled in th'offence of his body towards the said Sea, which nevertheless God by his providence, hath made subject to you, so to set forth this our most humble suit, that we may obtain from the Sea apostolic, by the said most reverend father, aswell particularly, as generally, absolution, release, and discharge, from all danger of such censures, and sentences, as by the laws of the church we be fallen into. And that we may as children repentant, be received in the bosom and unity of Christ's church, so as this noble realm, with all the members thereof, may in this unity, and perfect obedience to the Sea Apostolic, and Popes, for the time being, serve God and your majesties, to the furtherance and advancement of his honour and glory. We are at the intercession of your majesties, by th'authority of our holy father, Pope july the third, and of the Sea Apostolic, assoiled, discharged, and delivered from excommunication, interdictions and other censures Ecclesiastical which hath hanged over our heads for our said defaults, since the time of the said schism, mentioned in our supplication. The which time the said Lord Legate, and we, do all declare, recognize, and mean by this act, to be only since the twenty year of the reign of our most noble father, King Henry th'eight. It may now like your majesties, that for the accomplishment of our promiss made in the said supplication, that is, to repeal all laws and Statutes, made contrary to the said supre macye, and Sea apostolic, during the said schism, the which is to be understand, since the twenty year of the reign of the said late king Henry th'eight, and so the said lord Legate doth accept and recognize the same.  
Wherein the pacliament begun and holden at Westminster, in the xxi year of the reign of the late King of most famous memory, king Henry th'eight one act was then and there made against pluralities of benefices, for taking of farms by spiritual men and for none residence, in the which act amongst other things it was ordained and enacted, that if any person or persons, at any time after the first day of Apryll, in the year of our Lord God a thousand five hundred and thirty contrary to the same act, should procure and obtain at the court of Rome, or else where any licence, or licences, union, toleration, or dispensation, to receive and take any more benefices, with cure, than was limited and appointed by the same act, or else at any time after the said day should put in execution any such licence, toleration, or dispensation, before that time obtained, contrary to the said Act, that then every such person or persons, so after the said day, suing for himself, or receiving, & taking such benefice by force of such licence or licences, union, toleration, or dispensation, that is to say: the same prrson or persons only, and no nother, should for every such default, incur the danger pain, and penaltite of twenty li. sterl. and should also lose the hole profits of every such benefice, or benefices, as he receiveth, or taketh by force of any such licence, or licences, union, toleration or dispensation. And where also in the said Act it was ordained and enacted, that if any person or persons did procure, or obtain at the Court of Rome, or else where any manner of licence, or dispensation to be none residence at their dignities, prebend, or benefices, contrari to the said Act, that then every such person or persons, putting in execution any such dispensation, or licence for himself from the said first day of Apryll, in the said year of our Lord God, a M. five hundred, and thirty should run and incur, in the penalty, damage, and pain of twenty li. star. for every time so doing, to the for fayted and recovered, as by the said Act is declared. And yet such licence, or dispensation so procured, or to be put in execution, to be void, and of none effect, as by the same act more plainly it doth, and may appear.  
Be it enacted by th'authority of this present parliament, that as much only of the said Act as concerneth the articles, and clauses aforesaid, and all and every the words and sentences, contained in the said Act, concerning the said articles, and clauses, and every of them, shall from henceforth be repealed, annulled, revoked, adnichilated, and utterly made void for ever. Any thing in the said act to the contrary in any wise, notwithstanding.  
And where also at the session of the same parliament, holden upon prorogation, in the xxiii year of the reign of the said late king Henry th'eight, one act, entitled: the act that no person shallbe cited out of the diocese, where he or she dwelleth, except in certain caces, And where also at the said parliament, in the session holden at Westminster upon prorogation, in the xxiiii year of the reign of the said late king Henry th'eight, one act was made, that appeals in such cases as hath been used to be pursued to the sea of Rome, should not from henceforth be had nor used, but within this realm. And where also at the said parliament holden at Westminster, in the xxi year of the reign of the said late king Henry the eight, and there continued by divers prorogations, until the xiiii day of April, in the xxvii. year of his reign, one act was made concerning restraints of payments of annaties, and first fruits, of Archebyshopryckes and bishoprics of the Sea of Rome. And where at a Session of the said parliament, holden in the xxv year of the reign of the said late king, there was also made one act, entitled: the submission of the clergy to the kings majesties, and one other act entitled, one Act restraining the said payments of annates, or first fruits to the bishop of Rome, and of the electing and consecrating of the archbishoprics and bishops within this realm. And one other act was then and there made, entitled: an act concerning the exoneration of the kings subjects, from exactions, and impositions before that time paid to the Sea of Rome, and for having licences and dispensations within this realm, without suing further for the same.  
Be it enacted by th'authority of this present perliament, that the said several acts made for the restraint of the payment of the said annates, and first fruits, and all other the said Acts, made in the said xxiiii and xxv years of the reign of the said late king, and every of them, and all, and every branch, article, matter, and sentence in them, and every of them contained, shallbe by th'authority of this present parliament from henceforth utterly void, made frustrate and repelled, to all intentes, constructions, and purposes.  
And be it further enacted by the authority of this present parliament. that all and every these acts following. That is to say: one act made at the session of the said parliament holden upon prorogation at Westin. in the xxvi year of the reign of the said late king Henry th'eight, entitled: an act concerning the kings highness to be supreme head of the church of England, and to have authority to reform and redress all errors, heresies, and abuses, in the same. And one other act made in the same session of the same parliament entitled: an act for nomination, and consecration of Suffragans within this realm. And one other act made in the xxvii year of the reign of the sayde late king Henry the eight, entitled: an act whereby the king should have power to nominate xxxii persons of his clergy and Say fee, for making of Ecclesiastical laws. And also one other act, made at the parliament holden at Westminster in the xxviii year of the reign of the said late king Henry the eight entitled: an act extinquishing th'authority of the bishop of Rome And one other act made in the same parliament, entituled: an act for the release of such, as then had, obtained, pretended licences, and dyspensations from the Sea of Rome. And also all that part of theacte, made in the said xxviii year of the said king, entitled: an act for the establyshement of the Succession of the imperial crown of the realm, that concerneth a prohibition to marry within the degrees expressed in the said Act. And also one other Act, made at the parliament holden at Westminster, in the xxxi year of the reign of the said late king henry the eight, eutituled: an act aucthorizing the kings highness to make bishops by his letters patents. And one other act made in the session of the same parliament, begun in the said xxx year, holden upon prorogation. the xxxii year of the reign of the said King Henry the eight, entitled: an act concerning precontracts of marriages, and touching degrees of consanguinity. And one other act made in the parliament holden at Westminster, in the xxxv year of the reign of the said late king Henry th'eight, entitled: an act for the ratification of the kings majesties style, shall henceforth be repealed, made frustrate, void, and of none effect. And where also at the said parliament holden at Westminster, in the xxxv year of the reign of the said late king Henry th'eight, one other act was made, entite led: an Act concerning the establishment of the succession of the said king in the Imperial Crown of this realm: In the which act there is a form of a corporal oath devised and set forth, that every subject of this realm, should be bound to take against the power, authority, and jurisdiction of the Sea of Rome. Be it enacted by the authority of this present Parliament, that so much of the said Act, as toucheth the said oath against the supremacy, and all oaths there up on had, made, and given, shallbe from henceforth utterly void, repealed and of none effect. And where also one other act was made in the xxxvii. year of the reign of the said late king Henry th'eight entitled, an act that doctors of civil law, being married, might exercise ecclesiastical jurisdiction. Be it enacted by th'authority of this present Parliament, that the said act last before mentioned, and all, and every branch, article, sentence, and matter, contained in the same, shall from henceforth be repealed, and utterly made void, and of none effect.  
And where one other act was made at the first session of the Parliament, holden at Westminster, in the first year of the reign of king Edward the six te, entitled: an act for the repeal of certain Statures, concerning treasons, felonies, etc. In the which act amongst other things, there is contained certain provisions, pains, penalties, and forfeitures for and against such, as should by open preachings, express words, sayings, writing, printing overt deed, or act affirm, or set forth, that the king of this realm for the time being, is not or ought not to be supreme head in earth, of the churches of England and Ireland, ne of any of them, or that the bishop of Rome, or any other person, or persons, other than the king of England for the time being, is or aught to be supreme head of the same churches, or any of them, as in the same act last before rehearsed, more at large is contained, and may appear. Be it enacted by th'authority of this present Parliament, that these clauses before rehearsed, and other of the said act, concerning the supremacy, and all, and every branch, article, words, and sentence, in the same sounding, or tending to the derogation of the supremacy, of the pope's holiness, or the Sea of Rome, and all pains, penalties, & forfeitures. made against them, that should by any means set forth, or extol the said supremacy, shallbe from henceforth utterly void and of none effect.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that all clauses, sentences, and articles of every other Statute, or act of Parliament, made sithenes the said twenty year of the reign of king Henry th'eight, against the supreme authority of the Pope's holiness, or Sea Apostolic of Rome, or containing any other matter of the same effect only, that is repealed in any of the Statutes aforesaid, shall be also by authority hereof from henceforth utterly void, frustrate and of none effect.  
And where we your most humble subjects, the Lords spiritual and temporal, and commons in this present Parliament assembled, have exhibited to your majesties one other supplication in form following.  
We the lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this present Parliament assembled representing the whole body of this realm, reduced and received by your majesties intercession to the unity of Christ's Church, and the obedience of the Sea Apostolic of Rome, and the Pope's holiness governing the same, make most humble suit unto your majesties, to be likewise means & intercessors, that all occasions of contention, hatred, grudge, suspicion, and trouble both outwardly and inwardly in men's consciences, which might arise amongst us, by reason of disobedience, may by authority of the Pope's holiness, and by ministration of the same unto us, by the most reverend father in God, the Lord Cardinal Pool, by dispensation toleration, or permission respectively, as the case shall require, be abolished, and taken away, and by authority sufficient these articles following, and generally all others, when any occasion shall so require, may be provided for, and confirmed.  
first that all Bysshopryckes, cathedral churches, hospitales, colleges, lcholes, and other such foundations now continuing, made by authority of parliament, or otherwise established, according to the order of the laws of this realm, sithence this schism, may be confirmed and continued for ever.  
Item that marriages made infragradus prohibitos consanguinitatis, affinitatis, cognationis spiritualis, or which might be made void propter impedimentum publicae honestatis, justitiae, or for any other cause, prohibited by the canons only may be confirmed, and children borne of those marriages declared legitimate, so as those marriages were made, according to the laws of the realm for the time being, and be not directly against the laws of God, nor in such case, as the Sea Apostolic hath not used to dispense withal.  
That institutions of benefices, and other promotions ecclesiastical and dispensations, made according to the form of the act of Parliament, may be likewise confirmed.  
That all judicial processes, made before any ordinaries of this realm, or before any delegates upon any appeals, according to th'order. of the laws of the realm, may be likewise ratified & confirmed.  
And finally where certain acts and statutes have been made in the time of the late scism, concerning the lands, and hereditaments of Archebisshoprykes and bishoprics, the suppression, and dissolution of monasteries. abbeys, priories, chantries, colleges, and all other the goods and cartels of religious houses. Since the which time, the right, and dominion of certain lands, and hereditaments, goods and cattles, belonging to the same, be dispersed abroad, and come to the hands, and possessions of diverse and sundry persons, wholby gift, purchase, exchange, and other means, according to the order of the laws and statutes of this realm, for the time being, have the same. For the avoiding of all scruples that might grow by any th'occasions aforesaid, or by any other ways, or means, whatsoever: It may please your majesties, to be intercessors, and medtatours, to the said most reverend father, Cardinal Pole, that all such causes, and quarrels as by pretence of the said schism, or by any other occasion, or mean whatsoever, might be moved by the Pope's holiness, or Sea Apostolic, or by any other jurisdiction Ecclesiastical, may be utterly removed, and taken away, so as all persons having sufficient conveyance of the said lands and hereditaments, goods and cattles, as is aforesaid, by the common laws, acts or Statutes of this realm, may without scruple of conscience, enjoy them without impeachment or trouble by pretence of any general counsel, Cannons, or Ecclesiastical laws, & clear from all dangers of the censures of the church.  
And conformably hereunto, the bishops and Cleagry of the province of Cantorburie have presented to your majesties a supplication, in this tenor that followeth.  

Nos Episcopi & Clerus Cantuariensis provinciae in hoc Synodo more nostro solito, dum Regni parliamentancelebratur, congregati, cum omni debita humilitate & reverentia ex ponimus Maiestatibus vestris, quod lic●t Ecclesiarum, quibus in Episcopos Decanos, Archidiaconos, rectores, & vicarios praefecti sumus, & animarum, quae nobis & curae nostrae subiectae sunt & earundem bonorum iurisdictionum, & iurium, ex sacrorum Canonum dispositione, defensores & curatores constituti sumus, & proptereaipsa rum bona, iurisdictiones, & iura in pernicioso huius Regni praeterito scis mate de perdita & amissa, omnistudio, & totis nostris viribus, recuperare & ad pristinum Ecclesiarum ius revocare, juris remedijs niti deberemus: Nichilominus camen habito prius per nos super hac re maturo Consilio, et deliberatione ingenuè fatemur, nos optimè cognoscere, quàm haec bonorum Ecclesiasticorum difficilis, & quasi impnssibilis esset recuperatio propter multiplices, ac pene inextricabiles super hiis habitos contractus, & dispositiones, & quod si ea tentaretur, quies & tranquilitas Regni facilè perturbaretur, & unitas Ecclesiae Catholicae, quae iam pietatis, & aucthoritate Maiestatum vestrarum hoc in Regno introducta est, cum maxima difficultate suum debitum progressum, & finem sortirl posset. Ideo nos bonum & quietem publicam privatis commoditatibus, & salutem tot animarum praetioso Christi sanguine et redemptarum terrenis bonis anteponentes, & non quae noctra, sed quae lesu Christisunt quaerentes, Maiectatis vestras enixè rogamus, eisque humiliter supplicamus, ut reueren dissimo in Chricto patri, domino Reginaldo Cardinali Polo, ad ipsas, & universum hoc Angliae regnum sanctissimi domini nostri, Domini julij, Papae tertij, & Apostolicae sedes de latere legato, haec nomine nostro in sinuare, & apud eum intercedere dignentur, ut in hiis bonis Ecclesiastices in part, vel in toto arbi trio suo juxta facultates sibi ab eodem sanctissimo domino nostro Papa concessas, eorundem bonorum detentoribus elargiendis et relaxandis publicum bonum privato pacem & tranquillitatem dissidijs, & perturbationibus, atque animarum falutem bono terrenis praeferre, & anteponere velit Nos enim in omnibus quae ab ipso legato statuta, & ordinata circa haec bona fuerint, ex nunc, prout ex tunc, & econtra consensum nostrum praecta mus, imo etiam ut in praemissis se difficilem aut restrictum reddere non velit, malestatis vestrae nostro nomine eum hortari, & rogare dignabuntur. In super maiestatibus vestris supplicamus, ut pro sua pietate efficer dignentur, ut ea quae ad iurisdistionem noctrā, & libertatem Ecclesiasti cam pertinent, sine quibus debitum nostri pastorales officij et curae anima rum nobis commissae exercere non possumus, nobis superiorum temporum in iuria ablata restituantur, & ea nobis, & Ecclesijs perpetuo illesa & salva permaneant, & ut omnes leges, quae hanc nostram, jurisdictionem, & libertatem Ecclesiasticam tollunt, seu quovis modo impediunt, abrogentur ad honorem dei, & maiestatum vestrarum, & universihuius Regni Spirituale, et temporale commodum, et salutem, certam, spem etiam habentes, Maiestates vestras, pro sua singulari in ipsum deum pietate, proque multis et insignibus ab ipsius dei bonitate acceptis beneficijs necessitatibus, et incommodis huius sui Regni Ecclesiarum maximê curam animarum habentium nunque defuturas esse, sedprout opus fuerit, consulturas atque provisuras.   
Forasmuch as the said most reverend father, the Lord Legate, at the intercession of your majesties, hath by th'authority of the Sea apostolic, sufficiently dispensed in the matters specified in the said several supplications, as in his said letters of dispensation is contained more at large. The tenor whereof ensueth.  
Reginaldus miseratione divina Sanstae Mariae in Cosmedin Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae, Diaconus, Cardinalis Polus nuncupatus, ad Serenissimos Philippum & Mariam, Angliae Reges, fidei defensores: et universum Angliae regnum, Sanctissimi Domini nostri Papae, et sedis Apostolicae de latere legatus eye dem Serenissimis Philippo et Mariae Regibus salutem in Domino sempiternam. Cùm supremum consilium istius regni parlamentum nuncupatum Maiestatibus vestris, per suos supplices libellos exposuisset, quòd perniciocissimo scismate, in hoc regno aliâs vigente, quod nunc deï misericordia, & maiestatum vestrarum pietate extinctum est, authoritatem ipsius parlamenti, nonnulli Episcopatus divisi, & ex his aliquae inferiores Ecclesiae, in cathedrales erestae, et scholae, at que hospitalia fundata, necnon plurimae dispensationes et beneficiorum provisiones factae fuerunt ac multae personae quibus persuasum fuerat: juris Canonici dispositiones, hoc in Regno amplius locum non habere: inter se in gradibus consanguinitatis vel affinitatis de iure prohibitis, & alijs impedimentis Canonicis sibi obstantibus matrimonia, per verba de praesenti contraxerunt, et multis actus iudiciarij, & processus, tam in primis, quàm ulterioribus instantiis super rebus spiritualibus, & Ecclesiasticis coram judicibus tam Ordinarijs quàm delegatis, qui authoritate laicali procedebant, habiti & seruati, adsuper eis etiam sententiae latae, et promulgatae fuerunt, et bona ecclesiastica per diversas eiusdem regni personas occupata, et apprehensa fuerunt: Quae quidem licet ex sacrorum Canonum institutis irrita declarari possent, tamensi ad alium statum, quàm in quo nuncsunt, revocarentur, publica pax & quies universi regni turbaretur, et maxima confusio oriretur, presertim si dictorum bonorum possessores molestarentur, et propterea maiestati bus vestris humiliter supplicaverint, ut apud nos intercedere dignentur, ut premissarum rerum firmitari, et stabilitati, et simul huius Regni quieti, et tranquillitati de benignitate Apostolica providere velimus. Cumque Episcopi quoque deindè, ac reliquus provinciae Cantuariensis Clerus totunfere corpus Ecclesiasticum regni representans, ad quos haec bonorum Ecclesiasticorum causa maximè pertinet, exposuerint, quòd haec bona ad ius ecclesiarum revocare non possunt, quin pax universalis, & quies huius regni turbetur, et causa fidei atque unitatis Ecclesiae, iam toto omnium consensu hoc in regno introducta, in maximum periculum adducatur, et propterea ipsi quoque supplicaverint, ut apud nos intercedere velint, ut in his bonis Ecclesiasticis possessoribus relaxandus restricti et difficiles esse nollemus, maiestates autem vestrae, ad quas maxime spectat prouldere, ut regnum ipsarum potestari, regimini et curae commissum in pace et tranquillitateconseruetur. His supplicationibus et postulatis cognitis et mature consideratis iudicaverint ea omnia, et maxime illa, quae in bonorum ecclesiasticorum causa petuntur, pro causa fidei et pro pace publica, per nos debere sine ulla dilatione concedi, et quemadmodum rogatae fuerunt, apud nos intercedere dignatae fuerint, prout in supplicationibus per idem supremum consilium, et episcopos ac clerum praefatum maiestatibus vestris porrectis, atque in libello intercessionis per easdem maiestates vestras nobis simul cum alijs supplicationibus exhibito, latius apparet. Idcirco nos qui ad maiestates vestras, et hoc nobilissimum vestrum regnum à Sanctissimo Domino nostro julio Papa tertio ipsius et sedis Apostolicae de latere legati missi sumus, ut regnum istud, quod iamdiu ab Ecclesiae Catholicae unitate separatum fuerat, Deo et Ecclesiae Christi, eiusque in terris vicario reconciliaremus: et ut ea omnia quae ad pacem et tranquillitatem huius regni pertinerent, omni studio procuraremus, postquam dei benignitate, et maiestatem vestrarum pietate, per authoritatem eiusdem Sanctissimi Domini nostri Papae, cuius uices hic sustinemus, reconciliatio iam facta est, ut paci et tranquillitati regni prae fati consulamus, atque ut unitas ecclesiae, ex qua salus tot animarum prae cioso Christi sanguine redemptarum dependet, hoc in regno iam introducta corrobaretur, & salva permaneat, cùm utriusque rei stabilitatem in eo maxime consistere, si horum Ecclesiasticorum bonorum possessoribus molestia nulla inferatur quo nimus ea teneant, tot et tam gravia testimonia nobis fidem faciant, et maiestatum vestrarum intercessio, quae pro unitate Ecclesiae, et sedis Apostolicae auctoritate hoc in regno instauranda tam studiosè, et tam piè elaborarunt, eam quam par est auctoritatem apud nos habeat, et ut universum hoc regnum sedis Apostolicae maternam verè indulgentiam, et charitatem erga se agnoscat, et re ipsa experiatur: quoscunque ad quos infra scripta pertinent, à quibusuis excommunicationis, suspensionis, et interdicti, alijsque ecclesiasticis sententijs, censuris, et poenis à iure, vel ab homine quavis occasione vel causa latis, si quibus quomodolibet innodati existunt, ad effectum praesentium dumtaxat consequendum harum serie absoluentes, et absolutos fore censentes, aucthoritate Apostolica, per litteras Sanctissimi domini nostri, domini julij Papae tertij nobis concessa, & qua fungimur in hac part, tenore praesentium dispensamus: quòd omnes et singulae Cathedralium Ecclesiarum erectiones, hospitalium, et scholarum fundationes tempore praeteriti scismatis, licet de facto et nulliter attentatae in eo statu, in quo nunc sunt, perpetuo firmae et stabiles parmaneant, illisque Apostolicae firmitatis robur adijcimus, ita ut non ea aucthoritate, qua prius, sed ea, quam nunc eis tribuimus, factae ab omnibus censeantur, & cum omnibus et singulis personis regni praedicti, quae in aliquo consanguinita tis vel affinitatis gradu etiam multiplici, vel cognationis spiritually, seu publicae honestatis justiciae impedimento de iure positivo introductis, & in quibus sanstissimus dominus noster Papa dispensare cönsuevit, matri monia scienter velignorantur de facto contraxerint, ut alique impedimen torum premissorum, non obstante in eorum matrimonijs, sic contractis libere, & licite remanere, seu illa de novo contrahere possint, misericorditer in domino dispensamus, prolem susceptam, suscipiendam legitimam, decernentes, ita tamen ùt qui scienter et malitiosè contraxerint, à sententia excommunicationis, et ab incestus seu sacrilegij reatu, absolutionenâ suo ordi nario, vel curato, quibus id faciendi facultatem concedimus, obtineant, ac omnes Ecclesiasticas seculares, seu quorumuis ordinum regulares personas quae aliquas impetrationes, dispensationes, concessiones, gratias, et indulta tam Ordines quàm beneficia Ecclesiastica, seu alias spirituales materias praetensa aucthoritate supremitatis Ecclesiae Anglicanae licet nulliter, et de facto obtinuerint, et ad correversae Ecclesiae unitati restitutae fuerint, in suis Ordinibus, & beneficijs per nos ipsos, seu â nobis ad id deputatos, misericorditer recipiemus, prout iam multae receptae fuerunt, secumque super his opportunè in Domino dispensavimus: Ac omnes processus in quibusuis instantijs coram quibusuis judicibus, tam ordinariis quâm delegatis, etiam laicis super materijs spiritualibus habitos & formatos, & sententias super eis latas, licet nulliter et de facto, quoad nullitatem ex defectu iurisdictio nis praefato tantum insurgentem sanamus, illosque, et illas aucthoritate Apostolica confirmamus: Ac quibusuis huius regni personis, ad quarum manus bona Ecclesiastica ex quocunque contractu seu titulo oneroso vel lucrativo iam devenerint, illaque tenuerint, seu etiam teneant, omnes & quoscunque fructus ex eisdem bonis, licet indebitê perceptos, in totum remit imus & relaxamus. Volentes ac decernentes, quòd dictorum bonorum Ecclesiasticorum tam mobilium quàm immobilium possessores praefati non possintin praesenti, nec in posterum, seu per consiliorum generalium, vel provincialium dispositiones, seu decretales Romanorum pontificum Epistolas, seu aliam quamcunque censuran ecclesiasticam in dictis bonis, seu eorundem possessione molestari, inquietari, vel perturbari, nec eis aliquae censurae vel poenae ecclesiasticae propter huiusmodi detentionem, seu non restitutionem irrogari vel infligi, et sic per quoscunque judices, & auditores sublata eyes, qua suis aliter judicandi et interpretandi facultate, et aucthoritate judicari et diffiniri debere, & quicquid secus attemptari contigerit, irritum et inane fore decernimus, non obstantibus praemissis defectibus, & quibusuis Apostolicis, ac in provincialibus, et sinodalibus concilijs editis, specialibus vel generalibus constitutionibus, & ordinationibus, caeterisqueve contrarijs quibuscunque. Admonemus tamen cùm divisio Episcopatuum, & erectio Cathedralium Ecclesiarum sint de maioribus causis, quae summo pontifici sunt reseruatae, recurrendum esse ad suam Sanctitatem, & ab ea suppliciter postulandum, ut haec confirmare, seu de novo facere dignetur. Et licet omnes res mobiles Ecclesiarum indistinctêijs, qui eos tenent relaxaverimus, eos tamen admonitos esse volumus, ut ante oculos habentes divini judicij severitatem contra Balthasarem Regem Babilonis, qui vasa sacra non à se, sed à patre ê templo ablata in prophanos usus convertit ea proprijs Ecclesijs si extant, vel alijs restituant. Hortantes etiam, & per viscera misericordiae lesu Christi obtestantes eos omnes, quos haec res tangit, ut salutis suae non omnino immemores, hoc saltem efficiant, ut ex bonis Ecclesiasticis, maxime ijs, quae ratione personatuum & vicariatuum populi ministrorum sustentationi fuerint specialiter destinata, seu alijs Cathedralibus, & alijs quae nunc extant, inferioribus Ecclesijs curam animarum exercentibus ita provideatur, ut earum pastors, personae & vicarij commodè, & honest juxta eorum qualitatem, & statum sustentari possint, & curam animarum laudabiliter exercere, & onera incumbentia congruè supportare.  
Datum Lambeth prope Londinum Wintonien. Diocese. Anno Nativitatis domini Millesimo, quingentesimo, quinquagesimo quarto. Nono Cal. januarij Pontif. Sanctissimi in Christo patris, & Domini nostri, Domini julij, divina providentia Papae tertij. Anno quinto. Reginaldus Cardinalis Polus Legatus.  
We the said lords spiritual and temporal, and commons in this present parliament assembled, rendering most humble thanks to your majesties, by whose intercession and means we have obtained the said dispensations of the pope's holiness by the said most reverend father in God, hyslegate, most humbly beseecheth the same, that it may be ordained as followeth.  
And therefore be it enacted by th'authority of this present parliament, that all, & singular articles & clauses. contained in the said dispensation, as well touching the establishment of bishoprics, and cathedral churches, as also the confirmation of marriages in degrees prohibited by the canons of the church, the legitimation of children, and the ratification of process, and of sentences in matters ecclesiastical, touching the invalidity of them for want of iuridiction, and the insititutions and destitutions, of, and in benefices and promotions ecclesiastical, dispensations, and graces, given by such order, as the public laws of the realm then approved, and all other things before contained in the said letters of dispensation, shall remain and be reputed and taken, to all intentes and constructions in the laws of this realm, lawful, good, and effectual to be alleged and pleaded in all courts ecclesiastical and temporal, for good and sufficient matter, either for the plaintiff or defendant, without any all gation, or objection, to be made against the validity of them, by pretence of any general counsel, canon, or decree, to the contrary made, or to be made in that behalf.  
And where as diverse and sundry late Monasteries, Priories, commands, nunneries, Deaneries, Prebends, Colleges, Hospitals, Houses of friars, chantries, and other religious and ecclesiastical houses and places, and the manours, granges, messages, lands, tenements, rectories, tithes, pensions, portions, vicareges, churches, chapels, advowsons, nominations, patronages, annuities rents, reversions, services, and other possessions, and hereditaments to the said late monasteries. priories, nunneries, commands, deanryes, chantries, prebends, houses of Friars, colleges, hospitals, and other religious and ecclesiastical houses and places and to sundry Archebysshoprykes, and bishoprics within this realm, late appartayning and belonging, came aswell to the hands & possession of the said king of famous memory henry theyghte, father unto your majesty, our said sovereign Lady by dissolution, gift, grant, surrendre, attayndre, or otherwise, as also to the hands and possession of divers and sundry other persons, and bodies politic and corporate, by sundry means, conveyances, and assurances, according to the order of the laws and statutes of this realm.  
And where also diverse manors, lands, tenements, and hereditaments parcel of the possessions of Archebysshoprykes and Bishoprykes, and many and sundry late deaneries, colleges, chantries, rectories, Prebends, Free chapels, guilds, and Fraternities, manors, houses, granges, lands, tenements, rents, services, and other Ecclesiastical possessions, and hereditaments, goods, and cattles to the said Archebysshoprykes, bishoprics, deaneries, colleges, chantries, free chapels, rectories, guilds, and fratermties, late appertaining, and belonging, or appointing, to and for the finding of priests obyttes, lights, or other like purpose, came as well to the hands & possession of the lare noble king Edward the sixth brother unto your majesty sovereign Lady, by virtue of an act of parliament thereof made, or otherwise, as also to the hands and possession of diverse and sundry other persons, and bodies politic and corporate by sundry means, conveyances, and assurances, according to the order of the laws of this realm: a great number, of which said late monasteries, priories, nunneries, commands, deaneries colleges, hospitals, prebends, chantries, free chapels, guilds, and, fraternities, and the manours, granges, messages, lands, tenements, rents, reversions, services, tithes, pensions, portions vicareges, churches, chapels, advowsons, nominations, patronages, an nuities, and hereditaments, goods, and cattles, to the said monasteries, priories, nonneryes, commands, deaneries, colleges, hospitals, chantries, free chapels, guilds fraternities, and other ecclesiastical houses, Archebysshoprykes, and bishoprics, belonging as well for great sums of money, as for other good, and reasonable causes and considerations, have been conveyed and assured to diverse the subjects, and bodies politic of this realm, aswell by the said king henry th'eight, the said king Edward the sixth, and by your highness our sovereign Lady, and jointly by both your majesties, as also by diverse the owners of the said ecclesiastical possessions, which said conveyances and assurances by their sundry letters patents, and other writings more plainly do and mayappeare. Forasmuch as the said most reverend father hath also bythe said dispensations, removed and taken away all matter of empeachement, trouble, and danger, which by occasion of any general counsel, canon, or decree ecclesiastical might touch and disquiet the possessions of such goods movable, lands, tenements, possessions and hereditaments, as were of late belonging to any of the said Archebysshoprykes, bishoprics, monasteries, priories, nunneries commands, deaneries, colleges, chantries, prebends, rectories, hospitals, houses of friars, or other religious and ecclesiastical houses, and places, of what nature, name, kind, or quality soever they be of. Yet for that the title of allandes, possessions, and hereditaments in this your majesties realm and dominions is grounded in the laws, statutes, and customs of the same, and by your high jurisdiction, authority royal, and crown imperial, and in your courts only to be impleaded, ordered, tried, and judged, and none otherwise, and understanding, that the whole, full, and most gracious intentes mind and determination of your most excellent majesties be, that all, and every person and persons, bodies politic and corporate, their heirs, successors, and assigns, and every of them, shall have, keep, retain, and enjoy all, and every their estates, rights, possessions, and interests, that they and every of them now hath, or hereafter shall have, of, and in all and every the manours, granges, messages lands, tenements, tithes, pensions, portions, advowsons, nominations, patronages, anuities, rents, reversions, services, hundreds, wapentakes, liberties, fraunchesis, and other the possessions and hereditaments of the said monasteries, abbeys, priories, nonneryes commands, deaneries colleges, prebends, hospitales, houses of friars, chantries, rectories, vicareges, churches, chapels, Archebysshoprykes, and bishoprics, and other religious or ecclesiastical standing.  
And where as by dissolution of monasteries, and other religious houses, certain parish churches and chapels which were before exempt, from the jurisdiction of the Archbishop, and Bishop of the diocese, and by special exemption and privilege from Rome, were under the government and order of the abbots, and priors of those religions houses, which said churches, by colour of the said exemptious, be now of special grant from King Henry, & King Edward, under the rule and government, and jurisdiction of temporal and lay men, who can no more enjoy, that supremacy, over those particular churches, than the king might over the hole realm.  
Be it therefore enacted, that all archbishoprics, and bishops in their dioceses, and all other spiritual person and persons, having jurisdiction, and their ministers and officers, and no lay person, or persons in every Church and place, within the precinct of the same, being exempt, or not exempt may freely, and without impediment, execute their spiritual jurisdiction in all points & articles, as though no such exemption or grant had never been made.  
Provided alway, and be it enacted, that this act extend not to take away, or diminish the privileges of the universities of cambridge and Oxford, ne the privileges, or prerogatives granted heretofore to the churches of Westminster, and Wyndesoure, ne the Cower of London, ne prejudicial to such temporal Lords and possessioners in this realm, as by ancient custom have enjoyed probate of Testaments, of their tenants or other.  
And forasmuch, as after this reconciliation, and unity of this noble realm, to the body of Christ's church, it is to be trusted, that by the abundance of God's mercy, and grace, devotion shall increase and grow in the hearts of many Subjects of this realm, with desire to give and bestow their worldly possessions, for the resuscitating of almose, prayer, and example of good life in this realm, to th'intent such godly motions and purposes should be advanced.  
Be it therefore enacted by the authority of this present parliament that it shallbe lawful to such as shallbe seized of any manors, lands, tenements, personages tithes, pensions, portions, or other hereditaments, whatsoever in fee simple, in possession, reversion, or remainder, in their own rights, not being copy hold, may thereof make feoffamentes, grants, or any other assurances, or by his last will and Testament, in writing, may bequeath and give in fee simple, all and every the said manors, lands, tenements, personages, tithes pensions, portions, or other hereditaments, to any spiritual body politic, or corporate in this realm or dominions of the same, now erected or founded, or hereafter to be erected or founded, without any licence of mortmain therein to be obtained, or any writ of ad quod dampnum to be sued out for the same, the acts de terri ad manuni mortuam non ponendis, or any other act or statute, heretofore had or made in any wise notwithstanding.  
Saving to the Lords of the see, all rents, services, dew, or going out of any of the said land or tenements, or hereditaments, so to be amortized, as is aforesaid.  
Provided always, that this clause of this act, for giving the liberty of, or for the amortezing of lands or tenements, shall continue for, and during the space of twenty years next, and immediately following, and no longer.  
And forasmuch, as we your majesties humble and obedient subjects, the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons in this present Parliament assembled, neither by the making, or delivering of either the supplications aforesaid, nor by any clause, article, or sentence thereof, or of any other clause article, or sentence of this, or any other Statute, or any of the preambles of the same, made, or agreed upon in this session of this present parliament, by any manner of interpretation, construction, implication, or otherwise intend to derogate impair, or diminish any of the prerogatives, liberties, fraunchisies pre-eminences, or jurisdictions of your Crown Imperial of this realm, and other the dominions to the same belonging: we do most humbly beseech your majesties, that it may be declared, and ordained, and be it enacted and declared by authority of this present parliament, that neither the making, exhibiting, or inserting, in this present statute, or in the preambles of the same, of the supplications, or promis aforesaid, or either of them, nor any other thing or things, words, sentences, clauses or articles in the preambles, or body of the acts aforesaid, shallbe construed, understanded, or expounded, to derogate, diminish or take away any the liberties, privileges, prerogatives, pre-eminences, authorities, or jurisdictions, or any part or parcel thereof, which were in your Imperial crown of this realm, or did belong to your said Imperial crown the twenti year of the reign of yours the Queen's majesties most noble father, or any other your most noble progenitors, before the said twenty year. And the Pope's holiness, and Sea Apostolic, to be restored, and to have and enjoy such authority, pre-eminence, and jurisdiction, as his holiness, used, and exercised, or might lawfully have used and exercised by authority of his supremacy, the said twenty year of the reign of the King your father, within this your realm of England, and other your Dominions, without diminution, or enlargement of the same, and none other. And the Ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the archbishops, Bishops, and Ordinaries, to be in the same state, for process of suits, punishment of crimes, and execution of censures of the church, with knowledge of causes belonging to the same, and as large in these points, as the said jurisdiction was the said twenty year.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that in and upon every such gifts and devices, to be made to such spiritual corporations, or persons, as is aforesaid, the donor, feoffer, or devisor thereof may reserve to him, and to his heirs for ever, a tenure in frank almain, or a tenure by divine service: And to have all remedies and actions, for and upon the said gifts, or devices, and tenors, in like manner & form, as was used before the statute of Westminster third (commonly called) Quia emptores terrarum. The said statute, or any other law or custom now being, to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
Provided always and be it enacted, that all, and every person & persons, and bodies politic and corporate, which now have or hereafter shall have any estate of inheritance, freehold, term, or interest, of, in, or to any portion, pension, tithes, gleblandes, or other ecclesiastical or spiritual profit, which by this act, and letters of dipensation rehearsed in the same, be permitted & suffered to remain and continue in lay men's possessions, shall & may have like remedy for the recovery of the same, and every part thereof, as they, and every of them might have had before the first day of this present Parliament, Any thing in this act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.   

¶ An Act for the punishment of traitorous words against the Queen's majesty.  
¶ The ix Chapter.  
EOrasmuch as now of late diverse naughty seditious malicious, & heretical persons, not having the fear of god before their eyes but in a devilish sort, contrary to the duty of their allegiance, have congregated themselves together in conventicles, in diverse & sundry prophave places within this city of London, esteeming themselves to be in the true faith, where in deed they are in errors & heresies, & out of the true trade of Christ's catholic religion, and in the same places at several times, using their fantastical and schismatical services, lately taken away, and abolished by authority of Parliament, have of their most malicious & cankerde stomachs, prayed against the Queen's majesty, that God would turn her heart from Idolatry to the true faith, or else to shorten her days, or take her quickly out of the way: which prayer was never heard nor red to have been used by any good Christian man, against any Prince though he were a pagan, and infidel, and much less against any christian Prince, and especially so virtuous a Princes as our sovereign Lady that now is known to be, whose faith is, and always hath been most true and catholic, and consonant and agreeing with Christ's catholic church, throughout the world dispersed.  
For reformation whereof, be it enacted by th'authority of this present parliament, that every such person and persons, which sense the beginning of this present parliament, have by express words and sayings, prayed, required, or desired, as is aforesaid, or hereafter shall pray, by express words or sayings, that God should shorten her days, or take her out of the way (whose life almighty God long preserve) or any such like malicious prayer amounting to the same effect, their procurers and abettors therein, shallbe taken, reputed, and judged traitors, and every such praying, requiring, or desiring shallbe judged, taken, and reputed high treason, and the offenders therein, their procurers and abettors, being thereof lawfully convict, according to the laws of this realm, shall have, suffer, and forteyte, as in cases of high treason.  
¶ Provided always, and be it enacted, that if any person or persons shall be indicted for any the offences aforesaid, done and perpetrated during this session of this present parliament, and upon his or their arraignment, shall show him or themselves penitent for their offence, and submit him or themselves, to the king and Queen's mercy, and humbly desire the same, before such justices or commissioners, before whom he or they shallbe arraigned, that then no judgement of conviction or attayndour of treason, shallbe given against any such person or persons, so being penitent, and submitting themselves, as is aforesaid. And in every such case, the justices or commissioners, before whom such person or persons shallbe arraigned, shall have authority by virtue of this act, to prescribe, adjudge, and appoint, such corporal punishment, other than death, to such offender and offenders, as to them by their discretion shall seem convenient, and upon that penance prescribed and done, to be discharged of the said treason, comprised in that indictment.   

¶ An act whereby certain offences be made treasons, and also for the government of the kings and queen's majesties issue.  
¶ The ten Chapter.  
Forasmuch as the great mercy and clemency heretofore declared by the Queen's highness in releasing the penal laws, made by her progenitors, hath given occasion to many cankered and traitorous hearts, to imagine, practice, and attempt things, stirring the people to disobedience and rebellion against her highness common policy, and duty of subjects, require that some law be eftsoons established to restrain the malice of such wicked and evil doers, where by they may be prehibited to blow abroad such shameful slanders and lies, as they daily invent and imagine of her highness, and the kings majesty her most lawful husband, which when they be hard, can not be but audible, and detested of all good men, considering they touch their majesties, upon whom dependeth the whole unity, and universal wealth of this realm.  
In consideration whereof be it ordained and enacted by the king and the queen's majesties, with th'assent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and of the commons in this present parliament assembled and by th'authority of the same, that if any person or persons after the first day of February next to come during the marriage between the king & the queen's majesties, do compass or imagine to deprive the kings majesty, that now is, from the having & enjoying jointly together with the Queen's highness the style, honour, and kingly name of the realms and dominions unto our said sovereign Lady the queen's highness appertaining, or to destroy the king that now is, during the said matrimony, or to destroy the queen's majesty, that now is, or the heirs of her body begotten, being kings or Queens of this Realm, or to levy war within this Realm of England, or within any of the marches of the same, against the kings majesty, that now is, during the said marriage, or against the queen's majesty, that now is, or any of her said heirs, being kings or queens of this Realm, or to depose the queen's majesty that now is, or the heirs of her body begotten, being kings or queens of this realm, from the Imperial crown of the Realms and dominions abovesaid. And the same compasses, or imaginations, or any of them maliciously, advisedly, and directly, shall or do utter by open preaching, express words, or sayings or if any person or persons after the said first day of february by preaching express words or sayings, shall maliciously, advisedly, and directly say, publish, declare, maintain, or hold opinion, that the kings majesty, that now is, during the said matrimony ought not to have or enjoy, jointly together with the queen's majesty, the style, honour, and kingly name of this realm, or that any person or persons, being neither the king or the queen's majesties that now are, during the said matrimony between them, aught to have or enjoy the style, honour, and kingly name of this realm, or that the Queen's majesty, that now is, during her life, is not, or of right ought not to be queen of this realm, or after her death, that the heirs of her highness body being kings or queens of this realm, of right ought not to be kings or queens of this realm, or to have and enjoy the same, or that any person or persons, other than the queen's majesty, that now is, during her life, aught to be queen of this realm, or after her death other than the heirs of her body being kings or queens of this realm, as long as any of her said heirs of her body begotten, shallbe in life, of right aught to have and enjoy the imperial crown of this realm. That then every such offender, being thereof duly convicted, or attainted by the laws of this realm, their abettors, procurers, and counsellors, and all, and every their comforters, knowing the said offences, or any of them to be done, and being thereof convicted or attainted, as is abovesaid, for his or their such offence, shall forfeit and lose to the queen's highness, her heirs and successors, all his and their goods, and cattles, and the whole issues and profits of his and their lands, tenements, and other hereditaments, for term of the life of every such offendor or offenders, and also shall have, and suffer, during his and their lives perpetual imprisonment.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that all, and every ecclesiastical person, being convicted or attainted in form aforesaid, for every such his offence, shallbe deprived by the ordinary from his promotion spiritual or ecclesiastical, in such like manner and form; that it shallbe lawful for every patron, founder, or giver thereof, to present, after such deprivation had, some one other to the same, as though the said offender or offenders were deceased. And if any person or persons being hereafter connycted, or attainted of any the said offences, in form aforesaid committed, shall after his or their conniction, or attainder, eftsoons commit or perpetrate any of the said offences in form aforesaid: That then every such second offence or offences shallbe deemed, and adjudged high treason, and the offender or offenders therein, their abbettoures, proturers and councillors, and all, and every their aydours, and comforters, knowing the said offences, or any of them to be done, being thereof convicted or attainted, according to the laws and statutes of this realm, shallbe judged, and deemed high traitors, and shall suffer pains of death, and lose and forfeit all their goods, and cattle's lands, and tenements, to the queen's majesty, her heirs, and successors, as in cases of high treason, by the laws of this realm at this day of right aught to be lost and forfeited.  
And be it further enacted by the said authority, that if any person or persons at any time after the said first day of February next to come, during the said marriage, compass, or imagine the death of the kings majesty, that now is, and the same maliciously, advisedly and directly shall utter and attempt by any writing printing, overt deed or act, or if any person or persons at any time after the said first day of February next coming, shall maliciously, advisedly, and directly, by writing, printing, overt deed, or act, affirm that the kings majesty, that now is, during the said matrimony, ought not to have, or enjoy jointly togethers with the queen's highness, the style, honour and kingly name of this realm, or that any person or persons, being neither the king, or the Queen's majesty, that now is, during the said matrimony between them ought to have or enjoy the style, honour, and kingly name of this realm. Or if any person or persons, after the said day, by any writing, printing, overt deed, or act, maliciously, advisedly, and directly, do affirm, that the queen's majesty that now is, during her life, is not, or ought not to be queen of this realm, or after her death, that the heirs of her highness body being kings or queens of this realm, of right ought not to have and enjoy the Imperial crown of this realm, or that any person or persons other than the queen's majesty, that now is, during her life, or after her death, other than the heirs of her body begotten, being kings or queens of this realm, as long as any of her said heirs of her body shallbe in life, of right aught to have and enjoy the Imperial crown of this realm. That then every such offence and offences shallbe adjudged high treason, & the offender & offenders therein, their abettors, procurers, & counsellors, and all, and every their aydours, and comforters, knowing the said offences, or any of them to be done, being thereof convicted, or attainted by the laws and statutes of this realm, shallbe deemed and adjudged high traitors, and shall suffer pains of death, and lose and forfeit all their goods, and cattles, lands, and tenements to the Queen's majesty, her heirs and successors as in cases of high treason, as is above said.  
And albeit we the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this present parliament assembled, have firm hope and confidence in the goodness of almighty God, that like as he hath hitherto miraculously preserved the queen's majesty from many great and imminent perils and dangers, even so he will of his infinite goodness give her highness strength, the rather by our continual prayers, to pass well the danger of deliverance of child, wherewith it hath pleased him, (to all our great comforts, to bless her. Yet forasmuch as all things of this world be uncertain, and having before our eyes the dolorous experience of the inconstant government during the time of the reign of the late king, Edward the sixth, do plainly see the manifold inconveniences, great dangers, and perils, that may ensue to this hole realm, if foresyght be not used to prevent evil chances, if they should happen. For the eschewing whereof, we the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this present parliament assembled, for, and in consideration of a most special trust and confidence, that we have, and repose in the kings majesty, for, and concerning the good and politic government, order, and administration of this realm in the time of the young years of the issue or issues of her majesties body to be borne, if it should please God to call the queens highness out of this present life, during the tender years of such issue or issues (which God for bid) according to such order and manner, as hereafter in this present act, his highness most gracious pleasure is should be declared and set forth, have made our most humble suit by th'assent of the queens highness, that his majesty would vouchsafe to accept and take upon him the rule, order, education, and government of the said issue orissues to be borne, as is aforesaid, upon which our suit being of his said majesty most graciously accepted. It hath pleased his highness not only to declare, that like as for the first part his majesty verily trusteth, that almighty God (who hath hitherto preserved the queen's majesty) to give this realm so good an hope of certain succession in the bluo royal of the same realm, will assist her highness with his graces & benedictions, to see the fruit of her body well brought forth, live, and able to govern, whereof neither all this realm ne all the world besides should, or could receive more comfort, than his majesty should and would. Yet if such chance should happen, his majesty at our humble desires is pleased and contented, not alonely to accept and take upon him the cure and charge of the education, rule, order, and government of such issues, as of this most happy marriage shallbe borne between the queen's highness and him, but also during the time of such government, would by all ways and means study, travail, and employ himself to advance the weal, both public and private of this realm, and dominions there unto belonging, according to the said trust in his majesty reposed, with no less good will and affection, then if his highness had been naturally borne amongst us.  
In consideration whereof beit enacted by the king and the queen's most excellent majesties, by th'assent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons of this present parliament assembled, and by th'authority of the same that if it shall so please God, to call the queen's majesty out of this present life, which god forbid, before the issue of her body, inheritable to the crown of this realm, if it be male, shall accomplish the age of xviii years, or if it be female, before it shallbe of the age of xu years, and not married, after the age of consent, and before the said age of xu years: That then and immediately after, and from the decease of our said Sovereign Lady the queen, the kings majesty, that now is, shall have the rule, order, education, and government of the person of such issue, or issues, and the rule, order, and government (under such issue, or issues) of this realm, and the dominions to the same belonging, until the same issue, or issues, inheritable to the Imperial crown of this realm, if it be male, shall accomplish the full age of eighteen years and if it be female, until such issue female, shall accomplish the age of fifteen years, and be married after the age of consent, and before the said age of fifteen years, if the said issue or issues, and our said sovereign Lord the King, shall so long live together: and that during, and by all the time of such government, all, and every the pacts, covenants, articles, and agreements, mentioned and compresed in the treatises, and act of Parliament, and every of them made, and concluded, for, and concerning the honourable marriage, had and consummate, between the King and queens Majesties, which on the behalf of his Majesty, been to be observed, performed and kept, shall after the decease of the queens Majesty, during the time of the said government, remain, continue, and be in as good, and full force strength, and effect, to all intentes, and purposes, as they were at any time, during the said Marriage, or now been, and as if they were newly by apt words, terms, and sentences, inserted and rehearsed in this present Act, and newly made and enacted, to stand, remain, continue, and to be observed, and kept, during the time of the said government, and shallbe by his Majesty, during the said time inviolably observed performed, maintained, and upholden, in such sort, and in as full large, and ample manner, to all respects, as they should, and aught to be, during the time of the said marriage, or after: and his highness, and the Queen's most excellent Majesty, are pleased and contented, that it be enacted by this present Parliament that nothing shallbe done, permitted, or assented unto by his Majesty to the contrary.  
And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that if any person or persons, during the time that our said sovereign lord the King that now is, shall, and aught to have the order, rule, education, & government of such issue, or issues, being, King or Queen of this realm, according to the order and provision aforesaid, maliciously, advisedly, and directly, by writing, printing, overt deed, or act, do compass, attempt, and go about to destroy the person of our said sovereign lord, or to deprive, or remove his said highness, from the order rule, education, and government of the same issue, or issues, being King or Queen of this realm, contrary to the tenor, intent, and true meaning of this present act: that then every such person or persons so offending, their procurers and abettors, being thereof lawfully convict or attainted by the laws of this realm, shallbe deemed and adjudged high Traitors: And that all and every such offence and offences, shallbe deemed and adjudged high treason: And the offender and offenders therein, their procurers, counsellors, and abettors, shall incur the dangers, forfeitures, and penalties of high treason.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority afore said, that all trials hereafter to be had, awarded, or made, for any treason, shallbe had, & used only, according to the due order and course of the common laws of this realm, and not otherwise: Saving to every person and persons, bodies politic and corporate, theirheyres, and successors other than the offenders, and their heirs, and such person & persons, as claim to any of their uses, all such rights, titles, interesses, possessions, leasses, rents, reversions, offices, and other profits which they, or any of them shall have at the day of the committing such treasons, or at any time afore, in as large and ample manner, as if this act had never been had nor made.  
Provided always, and be it declared and enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that conceylement, or keeping secret of any high treason, be deemed and taken only, misprision of treason, & the offenders therein to forfeit and suffer, as in cases of misprision of treason hath heretofore been used. Any thing above mentioned to the contrarynotwithstanding.  
Provided also, that if it shall fortune hereafter any of the pears of this realm, to be indicted of any of the offences made treason, or misprision of treason by this act, that then the same pears, or pear, so being indected, shallbe put to answer unto every such endictement, before the high steward of England for the time being, and to have his and their trial by his and their pears, and to receive and have such like judgement upon the same trial of his or their pears, or making open confession of the same offence, or offences, as is used in other cases of high treason.  
And it is further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that no person or persons shall in any wise be impeached for any of the offences above said, committed only by open preaching, or words, unless the offender or offenders be thereof indectedwithin six months next after the same open preaching or words. any thing contained in this act to the contrary notwithstanding.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid that upon thearraygnement of any person, which hereafter shall for tune to be arraigned for any treason, mentioned in this act, all, and every such person & persons, or two of them at the least, as shall hereafter write, declare, confess, or depose any thing or thnges against the person to be arraigned, shall, if they be then living, and within thee, realm be brought forth in person before the party arraigned, if he require the same, and object, and say openly in his hearing, what they or any of them can against him, for, or concerning any the treasons, contained in the indictment, where upon the party shallbe so arraigned, unless the party arraigned for any such treason, shall willingly confess the same at the time of his or their arraygnement.  
Provided nevertheless, and be it enacted by th'authority afore said that in all cases of high treason, concerning coin current within this realm, or for counterfeiting the King or Queen's signet, prynie seal, great seal, or sign manuel, such manner of trial, and none other be observed and kept, as heretofore hath been used by the common laws of this realm. Any law, statute, or any other thing or things to the contrary notwithstanding.  
Provided always, that the councillors, procurers, comforters, and abettors for his or their first offence shall suffer like punishment, penalty, and forfeiture, as is contained in this act against the principal offenders for their first offence, and none other. And that the counsellors, procurers, comforters, and abettors, for his or their second offence shall sustain like punishment, penalty, & forfeiture as is contained in this act against the principal offender or offenders for their second offence, and none other.   

¶ An Act for the punishment of bringing in of counterfeit coin of foreign realms, being current within this realm.  
¶ The xi Chapter.  
WHere diverse and sundry coins of gold and silver of other realms, not being of the proper coin of this realm of England, and yet by the sufferance and consent of the king and queen our Sovereign Lord and Lady, be current in payment within this realm many, ill disposed persons for their own corrupt lucre & advantage, have now of late brought into this realm, from the parties of beyond the sea, great quantity of forged & counterfeit money, like to the said coin of other foreign realms, and have uttered the same here by marchaundysing, and otherwise to diverse of the subjects of this realm, to their great deceit, hurt, and damage, because the said ill disposed persons have perceived and understanded, that there was not, nor yet is any sufficient law or statute made or provided for the condign punishment of the offenders in that behalf.  
Wherefore be it enacted and established by the authority of this present parliament, that if any person or persons, after the xx. day of january next coming, shallbring from the parties of beyond the sea into this realm, or into any the dominions of the same any such false and counterfeit coin or money, being current within this realm as is aforesaid, knowing the same coin or money to be false and counterfeit, to th'intent to utter, or make payment with the same within this realm, or any the dominions of the same, by marchaundysing, or otherwise, that all, and every such person or persons so offending, as is aforesaid, their counsellors, procurers, aydours, and abettors in that behalf, shallbe deemed and judged to be offenders in high treason, and shall suffer after lawful conviction or attainder thereof, such pains of death, loss and forfeiture of lands, goods, and chattels, as other offenders shall do, in cases of high treason.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all, and every person and persons, that shall at any time after the said twenty day of january, be accused or impeached of any of the offences, contained and provided for in this statute, or of any other offence or offences, concerning the impairing, counterfeiting, or forging of any coin curraunte within this realm, shall, and may be indicted, arraigned, tried, convicted, or attainted by such like evidence, and in such manner and form, as hath been used & accustomed within this realm, at any time before the first year of the reign of our late sovereign lord king Edward the sixth. Any statute, custom, law, or usage to the contrary thereof in any wise, notwithstanding.   

¶ An Act for the impounding of distresses.  
¶ The xii Chapter.  
FOr the avoiding of grievous vexations, exactions, troubles, and disorder in taking of distresses, and impounding of cattle, be it enacted by authority of this present Parliament, that from, and after the first day of Apryl next coming, no distress of cattle shallbe driven out of the hundred, rape, wapentake, or lath, where such distress is, or shallbe taken, except it be to a pound, overt within the said shire, not above three miles distant, from the place where the said distress is, taken, and that no cattle, or other goods distrained, or taken by way of distress, for any manner of cause, at one time shallbe impounded in several places, whereby the owner or owners of such distress shallbe constrained to sue several replevis for the delivery of the said distress, so taken at one time, upon pain every person, offending contrary to this act, shall forfeit to the party grieved for every such offence a hundred shillings, and triple damages.  
And further be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that after the said first day of Apryl, no person or persons shall take for keeping in pound, impounding, or poundage of any manner of distress, above the some of four pence for any one whole distress, that shallbe so impounded, and where less hath been used there to take less, upon the pain of five pound to be paid to the party grieved, over and besides such money as he shall take, above the some of four pence. Any usage or prescription to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
And for the more speedier delivery of cattle, taken by way of distress, it is further enacted by the said authority, that every Sheriff of shires, being no cities, nor towns made shires, shall at his first county day, or within two months next after he hath received his patent of his office of shirifwike, shall depute, appoint, and proclaim in the shire town within his bailiwick, four deputies at the least, dwelling not above twelve miles, one distant from another, which said deputies so appointed and proclaimed, shall have authority in the sheriffs name to make replevies, and deliverance of such distresses, in such manner and form, as the sheriff may, or aught to do upon pain that every Sheriff, for every month that he shall lack such deputy or deputies, shall forfeit for every such offence five pounds, the one half of which forfeitures shallbe to the king and queens highness, her heirs and successors, the other half to him that will sue for the same by bill, plaint, information, or action of debt, in any the king and queens courts of record, in which no essoygne protection, nor wager of law shallbe admitted.   

¶ An Act appointing in order to justices of peace, touching the baylement of prisoners.  
¶ The xiii Chapter.  
WHere in the parliament holden at Westminster, in the iii year of the reign of the noble prince, king henry the seventh, it was among other things ordained and enacted, that no prisoner arrested for felony, should be let to bail or maynepryce, by any one justice of peace, but by the hole justices, or at least by two of them, whereof one to be of the Quorum, Since the making of which statute, one justice of peace, in the name of himself and one other of the justices his companion not making the said justice party nor privy unto the case, wherefore the prisoner should be bailed, hath often times by sinister labour, and means, set at large the greatest, and notablest offenders, such as be not replevisably by the laws of this realm, and yet the rather to hide their affections in that behalf, have signified the cause of their apprehension to be put only for suspicion of felony, whereby the said offenders hath escaped unpunished, and do daily, to the high displeasure of almighty God, the great peril of the king and queens true subjects, and encouragement of all thieves and evil doers.  
For reformation whereof, be it ordained and enacted by the king and Queen's majesties, the lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this present parliament assembled, and by authority of the same, that from, and after the first day of Apryll nexe coming, no justice or justices of peace, shall let to bail or mainepryce, any such person or persons, which for any offence or offences, by them, or any of them committed, be declared not to be replenised or bailed, or be forbidden to be repleved, or bailed, by the statute of Westmin. primer, made in the parliament, holden in the third year of the reign of king Edward the first. And furthermore, that any person or persons arrested for manstaughter or felony, or suspection of manslaughter or selonie, being bailable by the law, shall not after the said first day of Apryli, be let to bail or mainprize, by any justices of peace, if it be not in open Sessions, except it be by two justices of peace, at the least, whereof one to be of the Quorum, & the same justices to be present together, at the time of the said bailment or main price, which baylement or mainpryce they shall certify in writing, subscribed, or signed with their own hands, at the next general goal delivery, to be holden within the county, where the said person or persons shallbe arrested or suspected. And that the said justices, or one of them being of the Quorum when any such prisoner is brought before them, for any manslaughter or felony, before any baylement or maynepryse, shall take the examination of the said prisoner, and information of them that brings him, of the fact, and circumstances thereof, and the same, or asmuth thereof, as shallbe material to prove the felony, shall put in writing before they make the same baylement, which said examination together, with the said baylement, the said justices shall certify at the next general goal delivery, to be holden within the limits of their commission, and that every Coroner, upon any inquisition before him found, whereby any person or persons shallbe indicted for murder, or manssaughter, or as accessary, or accessaries to the same, before the muther or manslaughter committed, shall put in writing the effect of the evidence, given to the jury before him, being material, and as well the said justices, as the said Coroner, shall have authority by this act, to bind all such by recongnisaunce, or obligation, as do beclare any thing material, to prove the said murder or manfiaughter, offences, or felonies, or to be accessary, or accessaries to the same, as is aforesaid to appear at the next genarall goal delivery, to be holden within the County, city, or town corporate, where the trial thereof shallbe, then and there to give evidence against the party so indicted, at the time of his trial, and shall certify aswell the same evidence, as such bond and bonds in writing, as he shall take together, with the inquisition or indictment before him taken and found, at, or before the time, of his said trial thereof, to be had or made. And likewise, the said justices shall certify all and every such bond, taken before them, in like manner as before is said of baylementes and examination. And in case any justice of peace, or Quorum, or Coroner, shall after the said first day of Apryll, offend in any thing contrary to the true intent, and meaning of this present act: That then the justices of jail delivery, of the Shire, city, town, or place, where such offence shall happen to be committed, upon due proof thereof, by examination before them shall for every such offence, set such fine on every of the same justices of peace, and Coroner, as the same justices of jail delivery shall think meet, and shall estrte the same as other fines and amerciaments assessed before justices of jail delivery ought to be.  
Provided always, and be it further enacted by th'authority afore said, that justices of peace, and Coroners within the city of London and the county of Middelsex, and in other cities, boroughs, & towns corporate within this realm, and Wales, shall within their several jurisdictions, have authority to let to Bail, fellous and prisoners, in such manner and form as they have been heretofore accusiomed, this act or any thing therein contained, to the contrary notwithstanding. And also shall take examinations, and bonds, as is aforesaid, upon every baylement by them or any of them to be made, and shall certify every such baylementes bonds, and examinations by them or any of them, taken or made at the next jail delivery to be holden within the shire, city, borough, or town, where their several jurisdictions extendeth, upon like pain and forfeiture, as is before limited in this present act.  
And be it also enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no writs of Habeas corpus, or Certiorary, shallbe hereafter granted, to remove any prisoner out of any jail, or to remove any recognisance, except the same writs be signed with the proper hands of the chief justice, or in his absence, one of the justices of the court, out of which the same writs shallbe awarded, or made, upon pain that he that writeth any such writs, not being signed as is aforesaid, to forfeit to our said sovereign lord the king and the queen, for every such writ and writs, five pounds.   

¶ An act for the making of russels satins, satins reverses, and fustian of Naples in Norwiche.  
¶ The xiiii Chapter.  
WHere of late years passed, russel's called russel's Satins, and Satins reverses, have been practised to be made beyond the seas of the wols, bred in the county of Norfolk, and by reason thereof, so great quantity of the said russel's Satins, and Satins Reverses have been brought into this realm, sold, & worn aswell in every part of this realm, as in the parts beyond the seas, that thereby the mysteries of worsteds making, and weaving, whereby merchants, and inhabitants of the city of Norwiche, have heretofore been well maintained and relieved, is now at this present almost wholly decayed and brought out of estimation, and very little worn, either within this realm, or in any other foreign realms, to the great hindrance, and decay of the said city, and citizens of the same city. For remedy whereof Thomas Marsham major of the city of Norwyche, john Corbet Esquire, Austen Steward, Robert Leche, Robert Rugge, john Ball, and Alexander Mather Aldermen of the said city. Thomas Whall, Thomas Peck, Ralph Marsham, Robert Henry, john Sutton, richard Tomson, citizens, and merchants of the said City, at their great costs and charges, aswell in bringing of certain strangers from the parts beyond the seas into the said city, as also in making of Lombes, and all other provision for the same, and also have called unto them eight persons of the most discrete and worthy men of the mystery of worsted weaving, within the said city, that is to say, john Cook, james Lyn, john Cross, Simon Petit, john Marshal, Roger Lecke Edmond Barker, and Edmonde Selers, being the number of xxi persons, which have not only made russel's Satins, and Satins Reverses, and fustian of Naples within the said city of Norwich of Norfolk wols, but also have learned and taught other citizens & inhabitants of the said city to make the same, in such good and perfect manner, that much better russel's Satins, Satins reverses, and fustian of Naples, and such like, and for easier prices, be now at this present wrought and made within the said city, than heretofore hath been, or now be made in any of the parties beyond the seas, whereby the said city and inhabitants thereof, may, and be like again to be relieved and brought to their old estate, to the great advancement of the commodities of this realm, and enriching the same, if some good and politic laws and ordinances were made for the good continuance of the true making of the said Russelles Satins, Satins Reverses, and fustian of Naples, and such like.  
In consideration whereof be it enacted by the assent of the king and queen's highness, the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons of this present Parliament assembled, and by th'authority of the same, that the said russels, satins and satins reverses, and fustian of Naples hereafter to be made only within the said city, may from hence forth bear the name, and he called by the name of Norwiche satins and Norwich fussians, and that the Mayor and the afore mentioned citizens of the same city, which before this time hath been at the costs and charges of the bringing of the said strangers into the same city, for the making of the said russels satins, satins reverses, and fustians of Naples, and such the afore mentioned eight persons, that they have called unto them, shallbe a fellowship of themselves, and shall yearly the third day of February choose of their fellows, four wardens within the guild hall of the said city, or any other common and convenient place in the same city, and the same wardens so being chosen, shall stand, and be wardens of the same fellowship, during one whole year, next ensuing the said election & that the same wardens after the said election, shall come before the Mayor of the said city for the time being, yearly the monday next after the said third day of Februarye, and before the said. Maior shallbe sworn diligently to view search, and see all the russels satins, satins reverses, and fustians of Naples, then made or that shallbe made within the said city, during the said year. And such of the said russels satins, satins reverses, & fustian of Napels, as shall appear and be deemed by them to be lawfully truly & workmanly wrought shall seal with a seal of lead, bearing the arms of the city of Norwhich, whereby it may be known to the merchant, or buyer of them that the same be allowed and truly made.  
And that also it may be enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the said wardens and fellowship shallbe a body corporate, and to be named and be enabled by this act to sue, and be sued and to give, and to take by the name of wardens, and fellowship of the mystery of russels satins, satins reverses, and fustian of Norwiche making within the said city of Norwich. And if any default at any time shallbe found in any of the said russels satins, satins reverses, & fustian of Norwiche, or in any of them by the said wardens, that the same defavite shallbe reform and the offender or offenders therein to be punished, according to such rules and ordinances, as hereafter from time to time shallbe made within the said city by the Mayor of the said city for the time being, and by the said four wardens, and the fellowship of the said occcpation or mystery, or the greatest number of the said fellowship, for, and concerning the same, and that the same defaults from time to time, as occasion shall serve shallbe inquired of, & tried before the Mayor of the said city of Norwich for the rhyme being, by the oaths of twelve honest men of the foresaid fellowship. And that the said four wardens so chosen and sworn, shall have full power & authority, to do execute, present, and reform all, and singular thing and things, of, for, and concerning the said mystery, making, working, and occupying of the said russels satins, satins reverses, & fustian of Norwich within the said city, in such manner and form, as in, or by the said ordinances shallbe expressed and declared, and that at all times hereafter, and from time to time, it shallbe lawful to the Mayor of the said cite for the time being, and to the before named fellowship and wardens of the same mystery, and the more part of them, & to their successors, to make and ordain from time to time, rules, laws, & ordinances meet and necessary for the good order & governance of the said mystery, and for the true and well making of the said russels satins, satins reverses, and fustian of Norwiche, and the same ordinances so made, to be at all times obeyed by all thinhabitance of the said city, or suburbs of the same, and to be put in due execution by the said maior and wardens, and their successers for the time being, in such manner and form, as by the same ordinance shallbe ordained and declared. And that such as now be, and that hereafter shallbe makers of the said russels satins, satins reverses, and fustian of Norwich, and every of them within the said city, shall not from henceforth occupy the said mystery, and making of the said russels satins, satins reverses, and fustian of Norwiche, nor of any of them within the said city, by themselves, or by any other, before he or they so occupying the said mystery within the said city, be made free of the said city, and admitted to be of the said fellow ship by the Maior of the said city, and wardens and fellowship of the said mystery for the time being. And that no person do occupy by himself, or any other for him out of the said city, the said mystery of making of russels satins, satins reverses, and fustians of Naples, or of any of them, before he or they so occupying the same, have been apprentice to the said mystery by the term of seven years, or else admitted by the said Mayor and fellowship, or the more part of them, upon pain of forfeiture of the same russels satins, satins reverses, and fustian of Nor which by them, or any of them to be made contrary to the form of this act.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that the said Mayor and wardens for the time being, shall not take any some of money, or reward to their own proper uses, for the admitting of any person or persons to occupy the said mystery, upon pain of forfeiture of triple the value of the reward, or some of money, so by them or any of them to be taken.  
Provided also, that it shallbe lawful to the said wardens, and to every of them for the time being, by all ways and means, & at all lawful times, diligently from time to time, to make search by dew and ordinary ways, for all manner of the said russels satins, satins renerses and fustian of Norwiche, that shall happen to be found by them defective, for lack of good and true workmanship. And that it shallbe lavofull to the said wardens & every of them for the time being by virtue of this act, to seize & take the said russels satins, satins reverses, and fustian, & bring and present the same clothes so seized and taken, to the Mayor of the said city for the time being, & unto his successors, to th'intent that twelve honest, lawful, and expert men of the said mystery, & fellowship being sworn before the said Mayor, may by virtue of their oaths, make inquiry, and present the manner of the said defaults before the said Mayor, for the time being according to such good and wholesome ordinances & rules, as shallbe ordained and made for the conservation & good continuance of the said occupation and mystery, & the true making and working of the said russels satins, satins, reverses, & fustians of Norwiche. And that all & every person and persons, that shall occupy, use, & exercise the said mystery, or making of the said russels satins, satins reverses, & fustians of Norwiche, or any of them, contrary to the form, tenor, plain meaning, & intent of this act, and of the rules and ordinances, that at any time hereafter by authority of this act shallbe ordained & made for the continuance of the true & perfect making of the said russels satins, satins reverses & fustian of Norwiche, shall forfeit and lose for every time so offending, or making any russels satins, satins reverses, & fustian of Norwiche, contrary to the meaning, tenor & effect of the said act, rules, and ordinances, concerning the same, such fines, amerciaments, & pains as shallbe adjudged, assessed, and affered by twelve expert men of the said fellowship upon their oaths, the same twelve persons to be sworn before the said Mayor & wardens to inquire and make true verdict, & presentment of such defaults, the one half of all which forfeiture to be to the Maior of the said city for the time being, & his suceessors, and tother moiety to the said wardens for the time being, & their successors, by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information in any court of record, in which action, bill, plaint, or information no wager of law, protection, invention, or foreign I'll, shallbe allowed. And in case it shall fortune hereafter, that any of the said russels satins, satins reverses, & fustian of Norwich shall lack of such lengths & bredes, or of the true & ensuing making or sorting of the yarn as shallbe appointed, & set forth by the said rules & ordinances, and the same so to be found defective by verdict of twelve men of the said fellowship before the said Mayor & wardens & their successors: That then the said russels satins, satins reverses, & fustians of Naples, & every of them so found defective, to be cut in two pieces, & to pay such fine or fines as shallbe offered & affered by the said twelve expert men by virtue of their oaths, the one moiety of which fine or fines to be to the Mayor of the said cicie for the time being, & to his sucressours, and tother moiety to the wardens of the said fellowship for the time being, and to their successors.  
Provided always and be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that if any warden or wardens for the time being, of the said mystery or occupation of making of russels satins, satins reverses, & fustian of Naples, shall at any time hereafter seal, or cause to be sealed any russels satins, satins reverses, or fustians of Naples, that shall not be well sufficient, and truly wrought, and made, according to the true intent, and meaning of this present act, shall forfeit & lose for every piece so sealed, being not well, sufficient, and truly wrought and made, the whole value of every such piece so sealed, th'one half of which forfeitures to be to the king and Queen's majesties, her heirs and successors, and tother moiety thereof to be to such person & persons, as shall sue for the same by bill, action, or information, in any of the kings courts of record, in which bill, action, or information no essoign, prorection, or wager of law shallbe allowed.   

¶ An act to confirm the liberties of the Lord Marchers in Wales.  
¶ The xu Chapter.  
Humbly beseechen your excellent majesties, your true & faithful Subjects, the lords marchers both spiritual and temporal, within your highness dominion of wales, that where as in a parliament holden at West. the xxvii year of the reign of king Henry th'eight, father unto you our natural Sovereign Lady, amongs other things, one act was made & established for laws and justice to be ministered in the said dominion of wales, in like form as it is in this realm of England, in the which act, one article is, that for that the lords Marchers before that perliament, had used to put their tenants within their lordships Marchers, under common main price & surety of appearance, and have had the forfeitures thereof, which for ever, from, & after the feast of all saints, than next ensuing the said parliament, should utterly cease, and be determined. It was enacted, that after the said feast of all saints, every lay, & temporal person, then being a lord marcher, should have the moiety or half of every forfeiture of all and every common mainprice, recognisauce for the peace or appearance, sorfeited by any of their tenants, inhabiting within any of their lordships Marchers, and they to be paid the same moiety or half, by the hands of the shryffe of every of the counties where such forfeiture shallbe, if the sheriff can levy the same, and the same sheriff to account to our said late sovereign lord the king for the other half or moiety, in such excheaker, as they be accomtant. And further it was enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that all, and every lay, & temporal person or persons, then being lords marchers, and having any lordship's marchers, or lordship's royals, should from, and after the said feast of all saints, have all such myses and profits of their tenants, as they have had or used to have, at the first entry into their lands in times past. And also should have, hold, & keep, with in the precinct of their lordships, courres baron, courts let, and law-days, and all and every thing to the said courts belonging, and also should have within the precinct of their said lordships, or lawday wayf, strayf, infangechefe, outfangethefe, treasure trovie, deodandes goods, and cattles of felons, & of persons condemned, or outlawed offellony or murder, put in exigent for felony or murder, and also wreck deemer, wharfage, and customs of strangers, as they have had in time past, as though such privileges were granted unto them by point of charter, any thing in that act to the contrary notwithstanding, as in the said act of parliament more at large it may appear.  
And forasmuch as Bishops, and other ecclesiastical persons, being lords marchers, having the like liberties, casualties, profits, & commodities within their lordship's marchers, and lordships royal, with in the said dominion, or principality of Wales, were not provided for by the express letter of the said Statute, in like sort, as the lay and temporal lords marchers were: but rather of purpose, as it should seem forgotten, and left out of the said Act, against all reason, and good equity: And forasmuch also, as the heirs andsuccessours of the lay & temporal lords marchers, then being, were not provided for, by the limitation, and express words of the said act, aswell as their ancestors, & predecessers were, as reason would they should have been.  
It may please your majesties of your most gracious favoureand benignity, at the humble suit, and supplication of your said faithful subjects, the lords marchers that now are, in the said dommion of Wales, both spiritual and temporal, to grant that it may by thassent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this present parliament assembled, be ordained, established, and enacted, by th'authority of this present parliament, that aswell your said spiritual, & ecclesiastical subjects, lords marchers, now having lordships marchers, or lorshyps royal in Wales aforesaid, and their successors, & the successors of every of them, as also the heirs and successors of the lords temporal marchers, that then were, or now be, and the heirs and successors of every of them, being or which hereafter shall be, lords marchers, within their lordship's marchers, and lordship's royals, in the dominion, or principality of Wales, shall have, and enjoy to them, & to their heirs, & successers, respectively, and severally for ever, the moiety & half of every forfeiture, of all & every common mainprice, recognifance for the peace, or appearance forfeited by any of their tenants, inhabiting within any of their lordship's marchers, or lordship's royal, & they to be paid the same moiety or half, by the hands of the sheriff of the county, for the time being, after such form & fort, as the said lay or temporal lords marchers have been, or aught to have been paid the same, by force of the said Statute.  
And further, shall have all such mises, & profits of their tenants, as the lords marchers, spiritual or temporal, respectively, or severally had or used to have at their first entry into their lands in times passed before the making of the said act or statute. And also shall have, hold, & keep within the precinct of their said lordships, all such courts baron courts let, & law-days, & all and every thing and things, to the same courts belonging, & also shall have within the precinct of their said several lordships, or law-days, all such wayf strayf, infangthief, outfangthief, treasure trovis, deodandes, goods, & cattles of felons, & of persons condemned or outlawed of felony or murder, put in exigent for felony or murder, and also all such wreck deemer, wharfage and customs of strangers, as the lords Marchers, spiritual and temporal, respectively, and severally had and used in times past, before the making of the said Statute.   

¶ An act for the continuance of certain statutes. Cap. xvi.  
WHere in the parliament begun & holden at London the iii day of November, in the xxi year of the reign of our most dread sovereign lord of most famous memory, king Henry th'eight, & from thence adjourned to Westm. and there holden, & continuend by divers prorogations, unto the dissolution thereof, one act was made and established, for the restraint of carriage & conveying of horses, and mares out of this realm & also one other act was there made, for the true winding of wols, and one other act was there made, to restrain killing of wainlinges, bullocks, steers, & heifers, being under th'age of ii years which said several acts were then made to endure & continue to the next parliament, as by the said several acts shore plainly appeareth. And where also in the same parliament, one other act was made & established, for attaints to be sued, for the punishment of perjury, upon untrue verdites, which acts last before rehearsed, were then made & ordained, to continue & endure to the last day of the next parliament, as by the same act more plainly at large is showed & may appear. And where also in the parliament begun & holden at Westm. th'eight day of june, in the xxviii. year of the reign of our said most dread sovereign lord king Henry th'eight, & there continued and kept, until the dissolution thereof it was ordained & enacted, that all & singular the said acts above remembered, & every of them, should continue & endure in their source & strength, & also be observed & kept until the last day of the next parliament, as by the same act amongs other things, therein contained more plainly appeareth. And where also in the parliament begun & holden at West. the xxviii day of April in the xxxi year of the reign of our said late most dread sovereign Lord, king Henry th'eight, and there continued until the xxviiii day of june than next following, it was ordained and enacted by th'authority of the same parliament that all & singular the said several acts above remembered & every of them, & all clauses, articles, & provisions in them, & every of them contained, should continue & endure in their force & strength, and also be observed & kept until the last day of the next parliament, as by the same act amongs other things therein contained, more plainly appeareth. And where in the parliament holden at Westm. in the xxxv year of the reign of our said late sovereign lord king Henry th'eight, one act was made for the preservation of woods, to endure for vii years then next following, & from thence to th'end of the next parliament, as by the same act more plainly doth & may appear. And where also at the parliament holden at West. in the xxxvii. year of the reign of the said, king Henry th'eight, & there continued and kept until the dissolution thereof it was ordained & enacted, that all & singular the said acts above mentioned, & every of them except the said act made for the preservation of woods, as is aforesaid, should continue & endure in their force & strength, & also to be observed & kept, until the last day of the next parliament then following, as vi the same act amongs other things there in contained more plainly appeareth. And where also at the session of the parliament, ended at West. in the xiiii day of March, in the third year of the reign of our sovereign Lord king Edward the vi one act was made for the true currying of leather, which act was made to endure to th'end of the next parliament, as by the same act more plainly appeareth. And where also at the session of a parliament ended at Westm. the first day of February, in the fourth year of the reign of our said late sovereign Lord king Edward the vi one act was then & there made, concerning the buying of rother beasts. And also one other act was then & there made touching the buying & selling of butter & cheese, which said several acts were then & there made, to endure and continue, to th'end of the next parliament, as by the same several acts more at large it doth and may appear. And where also at the session of a parliament by prorogation held at West, the xxiii day of january in the .v. year of the reign of our said sovereign lord, one other act was then and there made, against regrators and forstallers, to endure to th'end of the next parliament, which all & singular the said acts above mentioned together, with the said act concerning the preservation of woods, at a parliament held at Westm. the first day of March, in the vii year of the reign of our said sovereign Lord king Edward the vi & there continued and dissolved the last day of the same month of Marh, & all clauses articles & provisions in them, & every of them contained were there revived & continued, to stand in their force & strength, until the last day of the next parliament. And where also at the session of a parliament holden by prorogation at West. the xxiiii day of October, in the i year of the reign of our most gracious sovereign lady the queen, & there continued & kept until the dissolution thereof, one act was there made & established against unlawful & rebellious assembles, to endure to th'end of the next parliament as by the same act more plainly doth, & may appear. And where also at the same session of parliament, last before mentioned, all & singular the acts above mentioned, & before that time continued at sundry parliaments, as is aforesaid, & clauses, articles, & provisions in them, & every of them contained, were there revived, and continued to stand in their force & strength, unto the last day of the next parliament.  
Forasmuch as all & singular the said several acts above mentioned, be good & beneficial for the common wealth of this realm. Be it therefore enacted, ordained, & established by the king & queen our sovereign lord & lady, with th'assent of the lords spiritual & temporal, & the commons in this present parliament assembled, & by th'authority of the same, that all & singular the said several acts and statutes above mentioned, & rehearsed, & every of them, and all clauses articles, & provisions in them & every of them contained, shallbe revived, continued, stand, & endure in their force & strength, to all intentes, constructions, & purposes & shall be observed & kept in all things, until the last day of the next parliament.   

¶ An act touching leases hereafter to be made by certain spiritual persons. Cap. xvii.  
WHere in the parliament begun & holden at West. the eight day of june, in the xxviii year of the reign of our late king of famous memory Henry th'eight, & there continued & kept until the dissolution of the same parliamet, the xviii day of june next following, one act entitled, an act for restitution of the first fruits in the time of vacation, to the next incumbent, was had & made, wherein are certain clauses for leases then made, & to be made by spiritual & ecclesiastical persons, to endure, & be in force for term of vi ye ears if the incumbentes did resign their said spiritual promotions, or if the same should otherwise become void by thouli act of the same thincumbents, as by the same act more at large may appear. To th'intent the persons and vicar's and others, having cure of souls, may the better attend, and be the more vigilant in their ministry and function.  
Be it enacted by the king our sovereign lord, & the queen our sovereign lady with thassents of the lords spiritual & temporal, & the commons in this present parliament assembled, & by th'authority of the same that as much of the same act, as doth concern the making good of the said leases, ne any clause, sentence, provision, or article therein contained shall extend, or be construed, or adjudged to extend to any lease, that shallbe made by any person, vicar or any other having any spiritual promotion, after the feast of the purification of our Lady next coming.   

Excusum Londini in aedibus johannis Cawodi, Tipographi Regiae Maiestatis.  
Anno. M.D.LU