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ANNO PRIMO REGINAE ELIZABETHE. ❧ AT THE parliament begun at westminster, the xxiii. of january in the first year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady, Elizabeth by the grace of God, of England, France and Ireland. Queen, defender of the Faith. etc. And there prorogued till the xxv of the same month, and then and there holden, kept, and continued until the dissolution of the same, being the eight day of May, than next ensuing, were enacted as followeth. Anno. 1.5.5.9.  
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AN act restoring to the Crown the ancient iurisdictyon, over the State Ecclesiastical & Spiritual, and abolishing all foreign power repugnant to the same. Capi. i.  
An act for the uniformity of common Prayer, & service in the Church, and th'administration of the Sacraments. Capi. two.  
An act of Recognition the queens highness title to the imperial Crown of this Realm. Capi. iii.  
An act for the restitution of the first Fruits & tenths, and rents reserved nomine decime, and of personages impropriate to the imperial Crown of this realm. Capi. iiii.  
〈…〉. Capi. v.  
An act whereby certain offences be made treason. Capi. vi.  
An act for the explanation of the Statute of seditious words and Rumours. Capi. seven.  
An act to revive a Statute made in the xxiii year of the reign of king Henry th'eight, touching the conveying of Horses, geldings, and Mares into Scotland. Capi. viii.  
An act touching Shoemakers and Curryors. Capi. ix.  
An act touching Tanners, & the selling of tanned Leather. Cap. x.  
An act that the carrying of Leather Tallow, or raw H●des out of the Realm for Merchandise shallbe felony. Capi. xi.  
An act limiting the times for laying on land merchandise from beyond the Seas, and touching Customs for sweet wines. Ca xii.  
An act against the deceitful using of Linen cloth. Ca xiii.  
An act for the shipping in English bottoms. Ca xiiii.  
An act for the continuance of the making of  cloth in divers towns in the county of Essex. Cap. xv.  
An act that timber shall not be felled to make coals for the burning of Iron. Ca xvi.  
An act to continue the act made against rebellious assembles. Cap. xvii.  
An act for the preservation of Spawn and fry of fish. Ca xvii.  
An act for the continuance of certain Statutes. Cap. nineteen.  
An act of a Subsidy of Tonnage and Pondage. Capi. xx.  
An act of a subsidy, and two fifteens and tenths, granted by the Temporalty. Ca xxi.    

An Act restoring to the Crown the ancient jurisdiction over the state Ecclesiastical and Spiritual, and abolishing all foreign power repugnant to the same.  
MOST HUMBLY beseech your most crcellent Majesty, your faithful and obedient subjects, the Lords Spiritual & Temporal, and the Commons in this your present Parliament assembled: That where in time of the reign of your most dear Father of worthy memory King Henry the eight: diverse good laws and statutes were made and established, aswell for the utter extynguishement and putting away of all usurped and foreign powers and authorities out of this your Realm, and other your highness dominions and countries: as also for the restoring and uniting to the imperial Crown of this Realm, the ancient jurisdictions, authorities, superiorities, and prehemynences to the same of right belonging & appertaining, by reason whereof, we your most humble & obedient subjects, from the xxv year of the reign of your said dear father, were continually kept in good order, & were disburdened of divers great and intolerable charges and exactions before that time unlawfully taken and exacted by such foreign power & authority, as before that was usurped, until such time as all the said good laws and statutes by one act of Parliament made in the first and second years of the reigns of the late king Phyllyppe and Queen Mary, your highness sister entitled 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 stablyshement of all Spiritual and Ecclesiastical possessions and hereditaments conveyed to the laity, were all clearly repealed and made void, as by the same Act of repeal more at large doth and may appear. By reason of which Act of repeal, your said humble subjects were eftsoons brought under an usurped foreign power and authority, and yet do remain in that bondage to the intolerable charges of your loving subjects, if some redress (by th'authority of this your high court of Parliament, with th'assent of your highness) be not had and provided.  
MAY IT THEREFORE please your highness for the repressing of the said usurped foreign power, & the restoring of the rights, jurisdictions, and pre-eminences appertaining to Thimperial Crown of this your Realm, that it may be enacted by th'authority of this present Parliament, that the said Act made in the said first and second years of the reigns of the said late king Philip & Queen Mary, and all and every branch, clauses, and articles therein contained (other than such branches, clauses, and sentences, as hereafter shallbe excepted) may from the last day of this Session of parliament, by authority of this present parliament, be repealed, and shall from thenceforth be utterly void and of none effect.  
AND that also for the reviving of divers of the said good laws and statutes, made in the time of your said dear father, it may also please your highness, that one act and Statute, made in the xxiii year of the reign of the said late king Henry the eight, entitled: An act that no person shallbe cited out of the Diocese where he or she dwelleth, except in certain cases. And one other act made in the xxiiii year of the reign of the said late king, entituled: An act that appeals in such cases as hath been used to be pursued to the sea of Rome, shall not be from henceforth had ne used, but within this Realm. And one other act made in the xxv year of the said late King, concerning restraint of payment of annates and first fruits of Archbysshoprykes, and bishoprics to the sea of Rome. And one other act in the said xxv year, entituled: An act concerning the submission of the clergy to the kings Majesty. And also one act made in the said xxv year, entituled: An act restraining the payment of annates or first fruits to the bishop of Rome, and of the electing and consecrating of archbishops and bishops within this realm. And one other act made in the said xxv year, entituled: An act concerning the exoneration of the kings subjects from exactions and impositions heretofore paid to the sea of Rome, and for having licences and dispensations within this realm, without suing further for the same. And one other act made in the xxvi year of the said late king entitled. An act for nomination and consecration of Suffragans within this realm. And also one other act made in the xxviii year of the reign of the said late king, entitled: An act for the release of such as have obtained pretended licences and dispensations from the Sea of Rome, and all and every branches, words, and sentences in the said several acts and statutes, contained by authority of this present parliament, from and at all times after the last day of this Session of parliament, shallbe revived, & shall stand and be in full force and strength, to all intentes, constructions, and purposes. And that the branches, sentences, and words of the said several acts, and every of them, from thenceforth shall & may be judged, deemed, & taken to extend to your highness, your heirs and successors as fully and largely as ever the same acts or any of them did extend to the said late king Henry th'eight your highness father.  
AND THAT it may also please your highness, that it may be enacted by th'authority of this present parliament, that so much of one act or Statute made in the xxxii year of the reign of your said dear father king Henry the eight entituled: an Act concerning precontracts of marriages, and touching degrees of consanguinity, as in the time of the late king Edward the sixth, your highness most dear brother, by one other act or Statute was not repealed. And also one act made in the xxxvii year of the reign of the said late king Henry th'eight, entituled: an Act, that Doctors of the Civil law being married, may exercise ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and all and every branches and articles in the said two acts last mentioned, and not repealed in the time of the said late king Edward the sixth, may from henceforth likewise stand and be revived, and remain in their full force and strength, to all intentes and purposes, any thing contained in the said act of repeal before mentioned; or any other matter or cause to the contrary notwithstanding.  
AND that it may also please your highness that it may be further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that all other laws and Statutes, and the branches and clauses of any act or Statute repealed & made void by the said act of repeal, made in the time of the late king Phyllyp and Queen Mary, and not in this present act specially mentioned and revived, shall stand, remain, and be repealed and void, in such like manner and form as they were before the making of this act, any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.  
AND THAT IT may also please your highness, that it may be enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that one act & statute made in the first year of the reign of the late king Edward the sixth, your majesties most d●re brother, entitled: an Act against such persons as shall unreverently speak against the Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ, commonly called the Sacrament of the altar, and for the receiving thereof under both kinds, and all and every branches, clauses, and sentences therein contained, shall & may likewise from the last day of this Session of parliament, be revived, and from thenceforth shall and may stand, remain, & be in full force, strength and effect, to all intentes, constructions, & purposes, in such like manner & form, as the same was at any time in the first year of the reign of the said late king Edward the sixth, and law, statute, or other matter to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
AND THAT also it may please your highness that it may be further established & enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that one Act and Statute made in the first & second years of the said late king Phyllyp and Queen Mary, entitled: an Act for the reviving of three statutes made for the punishment of heresies, & also the said three statutes mentioned in the said act, & by the same act revived, and all & every branches, articles, clauses, and sentence contained in the said several acts or statutes & every of them, shallbe from the last day of this Session of parliament, deemed and remain utterly repealed, void, and of none effect, to all intentes & purposes, any thing in the said several acts, or any of them contained, or any other matter or cause to the contrary notwithstanding.  
AND to the intent that all usurped & foreign power & authority spiritual and temporal, may for ever be clearly extinguished and never to be used or obeyed within this Realm, or any other your majesties dominions or countries: May it please your highness that it may be further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate, spiritual or temporal, shall at any time after the last day of this Session of parliament, use, enjoy, or exercise any manner of power, jurisdiction, superiority, authority, pre-eminence, or privilege spiritual or ecclesiastical within this realm, or within any other your majesties dominions or countries that now be or hereafter shallbe, but from thenceforth the same shallbe clearly abolished out of this realm, and all other your highness dominions for ever, any statute, ordinance, custom, constitutions, or any other matter or cause whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
AND that also it may likewise please your highness, that it may be established & enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that such jurisdictions, privileges, superiorities, and pre-eminences spiritual & ecclesiastical, as by any spiritual or ecclesiastical power or authority hath heretofore been, or may lawfully be exercised or used, for the visitation of the ecclesiastical State and persons, and for reformation, order, and correction of the same, and of all manner errors, heresies, schisms, abuses, offences, contempts, and enormities, shall for ever by authority of this present parliament, be united and annexed to the imperial Crown of this Realm. And that your highness, your heirs & successors, kings or queens of this realm, shall have full power & authority by virtue of this act by letters patents, under the great seal of England, to assign, name, & authorize, when and as often as your highness, your heirs or successors shall think meet and convenient, & for such and so long time as shall please your highness, your heirs or successors such person or people being natural borne subjects to your highness, your heirs, or successors, as your majesty, your heirs or successors shall think meet to exercise, use, occupy, and execute under your highness, your heirs and successors, all manner of jurisdictions, privileges, and pre-eminences in any wise touching or concerning any spiritual or ecclesiastical jurisdiction within these your realms of England and Ireland, or any other your highness dominions or countries, and to visit, reform, redress, order, correct and amend all such errors, heresies, schisms, abuses, offences, contempts, and enormities whatsoever, which by any manner spiritual or ecclesiastical power, authority, or jurisdiction, can or may lawfully be reform, ordered, redressed, corrected, restrained or amended, to the pleasure of almighty God, thincrease of virtue, & the conservation of the peace & unity of this realm. And that such person or persons so to be named, assigned, authorised, and appointed by your highness, your heirs or successors, after the said letters patents to him or them made & delivered as is aforesaid, shall have full power and authority by virtue of this act & of the said letters patents under your highness, your heirs or successors, to exercise, use, and execute all the premises, according to the tenor and effect of the said letters patents. Any matter or cause to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
AND for the better observation and maintenance of this act, may it please your highness that it may be further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all and every archbishop, Bishop, and all and every other ecclesiastical person, and other ecclesiastical officer and minister, of what estate, dignity, pre-eminence or degree soever he or they be or shallbe, and all and every temporal judge, justicer, Mayre, and other lay or temporal office and minister, and every other person, having your highness fee or wages within this Realm, or any your highness dominions, shall make, take, and receive, a corporal oath upon the Evangelist, before such person or persons as shall please your highness, your heirs or successors, under the great Seal of England, to assign and name, to accept and take the same, according to the tenor and effect hereafter following. That is to say:  
I A. B. do utterly testify & declare in my conscience, that the queens highness is the only Supreme governor of this Realm, and of all other her highness dominions and countries, aswell in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes: as temporal, & that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate, hath or aught to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence or authority ecclesiastical or spiritual within this realm, & therefore I do utterly remounce & forsake all foreign jurisdictions, powers, superiorities, & authorities, and do promise that from hence forth I shall bear faith & true allegiance to the queens highness, her heirs and lawful successors, and to my power shall assist and defend all jurisdictions, privileges, pre-eminences, & authorities granted or belonging to the queens highness, her heirs and successors, or united and annexed to th'imperial Crown of this realm, so help me God, and the contents of this book.  
AND that it may be also enacted, that if any such archbishop, bishop, or any other Ecclesiastical officer or minister, or any of the said temporal judges, justiciaries, or other lay officer or minister, shall peremptorily or obstinately refuse to take or receive the said other: That then he so refusing, shall forfeit and lose only during his life, all & every Ecclesiastical and Spiritual promotion, benefice & office, and every temporal and lay promotion and office, which he hath solely at the time of such refusal made, and that the whole title, interest, and incumbency in every such promotion, benefice, and other office, as against such person only so refusing, during his life, shall clearly cease, & be void, as though the party so refusing were dead. And that also all and every such person and persons so refusing to take the said oath, shall immediately after such refusal, be from thenceforth during his life disabled to retain or exercise any office, or other promotion, which he at the time of such refusal hath jointly or in common with any other person or persons. And that all and every person and persons that at any time hereafter shallbe preferred, promoted, or collated to any Archebysshopryke, or Bysshopryke, or to any other spiritual or ecclesiastical benefice, promotion, dignity, office, or ministry, or that shallbe by your highness, your heirs, or successors, preferred or promoted to any temporal or lay office, ministry, or service within this realm, or in any your highness dominions, before he or they shall take upon him or them to receive, use, exercise, supply, or occupy any such archebyshoprike, bishopric, promotion, dignity, office, ministry or service, shall likewise make, take, & receive the said corporal oath before mentioned, upon the evangelist, before such persons as have or shall have authority to admit any such person to any such office, ministry, or service, or else before such person or persons as by your highness, your heirs or successors by commission under the great seal of England, shallbe named, assigned or appointed to minister the said oath. And that it may likewise be further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any such person or persons as at any time hereafter shallbe promoted, preferred, or collated to any such promotion spiritual or ecclesiastical benefice, office, or ministry, or that by your highness, your heirs or successors, shallbe promoted or preferred to any temporal or lay office, ministry, or service, shall and do peremtorilye and obstinately refuse to take the same oath so to him to be offered, that then he or they so refusing, shall presently be judged disabled in the law, to receive, take, or have the same promotion Spiritual or Ecclesiastical, the same temporal ofsyce, ministry, or service within this realm, or any other your highness dominions, to all intentes, constructions, and purposes.  
AND THAT it may be further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that all and every person and persons Temporal, suing livery, or Oustre le main, out of the hands of your highness, your heirs, or successors, before his or their livery or Oustre le main sued forth and allowed, and every Temporal person or persons, doing any homage to your highness, your heirs or successors, or that shall be received into service with your highness, your heirs or successors, shall make, take, and receive the said corporal oath before mentioned, before the Lord Chancellor of England, or the lord keeper of the great seal for the time being, or before such person or persons as by your highness, your heirs or successors shall be named and appointed to accept or receive the same. And that also all and every person and persons taking orders, and all and every other person and persons, which shallbe promoted or preferred to any degree of learning in any university within this your realm or dominions, before he shall receive or take any such orders, or be preferred to any such degree of learning, shall make, take, and recceive the said oath by this act set forth and declared as is aforesaid, before his or their ordinary, commissary, Chancellor, or vicechancellor, or their sufficient deputies in the said university.  
PROVIDED always, & that it may be further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that if any person having any estate of inheritance in any temporal office or offices, shall hereafter obstinately and peremptorily refuse to accept and take the said oath as is aforesaid, and after at any time during his life, shall willingly require to take & receive the said oath, and so do take & accept the same oath before any person or persons that shall have lawful authority to minister the same: That then every such person immediately after he hath so received the same oath, shallbe vested, judged, and deemed in like estate and possession of the said office, as he was before the said refusal, & shall and may use and exercise the said office, in such manner & form as he should or might have done before such refusal, any thing in this act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
AND FOR THE MORE sure observation of this act, and the utter extinguyshement of all foreign & usurped power & authority may it please your highness that it may be further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any person or persons, dwelling or inhabiting within this your Realm, or in any other your highness Realms or dominions, of what estate, dignity, or degree soever he or they be, after th'end of xxx days next after the determination of this session of this present parliament, shall by writing, printing, teaching, preaching, express words, deed or act, advisedly, maliciously, & directly affirm, hold, stand with, set forth, maintain, or defend th'authority, pre-eminence, power, or jurisdiction Spiritual or Ecclesiastical of any foreign Prince, Prelate, Person, State, or Potentate, whatsoever heretofore claimed, used, or usurped within this Realm, or any dominion or country being within or under the power, dominion, or obeisance of your highness, or shall advisedly, maliciously, and directly put in ure or execute any thing for thextoling, advancement, setting forth, maintenance or defence of any such pretended or usurped jurisdiction, power, pre-eminence or authority, or any part thereof: That then every such person and persons so doing and offending, their abettors, aydours, procurers, and counsellors, being thereof lawfully convicted and attainted according to the due order & course of the comen laws of his ●ealme, for this or their first offence shall forfeit and lose unto your highness, your heirs and successors, all his and their goods and chattels, aswell real as personal. And if any such person so convicted or attainted shall not have or be worth of his proper goods and chattels to the value of xx. li. at the time of such his conviction or atteyndour: that then every such person so convicted & attainted, over & besides the forfeiture of all his said goods & chattels, shall have and suffer imprisonment by the space of one whole year without bail or mainprize. And that also all and every the benefices, prebends, and other Ecclesiastical promotions and dignities, whatsoever of every Spiritual person so offending and being attainted shall immediately after such atteyndour, be utterly void to all intentes and purposes as though thincumbent thereof were dead. And that the patron & donor of every such benefice, prebend, spiritual promotion & dignity shall & may lawfully present unto the same, or give the same in such manner and form as if the said incumbent were dead. And if any such offender or offenders after such conviction or atteyndour do eftsoons commit or do the said offences or any of them in manner and form aforesaid, and be thereof duly convicted and attainted as is aforesaid: That then every such offender and offenders shall for the same second offence incur into the dangers, penalties, and forfeitures ordained and provided by the Statute of provision and Preminire, made in the xvi year of the reign of King richard the second. And if any such offender or offenders, at any time after the said second conviction and attayndoure, do the third time commit and do the said offences, or any of them, in manner and form aforesaid, and be thereof duly convicted and attainted as is aforesaid: That then every such offence or offences shall be deemed and adjudged high treason, and that thoffender and offenders therein, being thereof lawfully convicted and attainted, according to the laws of this Realm, shall suffer pains of death, and other penalties, forfeitures, and losses, as in cases of high treason by the laws of this Realm.  
AND ALSO THAT IT MAY likewise please your highness, that it may be enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that no manner of person or persons, shallbe molested or impeached for any th'offences aforesaid, committed or perpretated only by preaching, teaching or words, unless he or they be thereof lawfully indicted, within the space of one half year next after his or their offences so committed And in case any person or persons shall fortune to be imprisoned for any of the said offences committed by preaching, teaching, or words only, and be not thereof indicted within the space of one half year next after his or their such offence so committed and done: That then the said person so imprisoned shall be set at liberty, and be no longer detained in prison for any such cause or offence.  
PROVIDED ALWAYS AND BE IT enacted by thauthority aforesaid, that this act or any thing therein contained shall not in any wise extend to repeal, any clause, matter, or sentence contained or specified, in the said Act of Repeal, made in the said first and second years of the reigns of the said late king Philip and Queen Mary, as doth in any wise touch or concern any matter or case of preminire, or that doth make or ordain any matter or cause to be within the case of preminire, but that the same, forsomuch only as toucheth or concerneth any case or matter of preminire shall stand and remain in such force and effect as the same was before the making of this act. Any thing in this act, contained to the contratye in any wise notwithstanding.  
PROVIDED ALSO AND BE IT enacted by thauthority aforesaid, that this act or any thing therein contained shall not in any wise extend or be preiudycial to any person or people for any offence or offences committed or done, or hereafter to be committed or done, contrary to the tenor and effect of any act or Statute now revived by this act, before th'end of thirty. days next after th'end of the session of this present parliament, any thing in this act contained, or any other matter or cause to the contrary notwithstanding. And if it happen that any peer of this Realm shall fortune to be indicted of, and for any offence that is revived or made preminire or treason by this act, that then he so being indicted shall have his trial by his peers, in such like manner and form, as in other cases of treason hath been used.  
PROVIDED ALWAYS and be it enacted as is aforesaid, that no manner of order, act or determination, for any matter of religion, or cause Ecclesiastical, had or made by th'authority of this present parliament, shallbe accepted, deemed, interpretate or adjudged at any time hereafter, to be any error, heresy, schism, or schismatical opinion: Any order, decree, sentence, constitution, or law, whatsoever the same be to the contrary notwithstanding.  
PROVIDED ALWAYS AND BE it enacted by th'authority aforesaid. That such person or persons to whom your highness your heirs or Successors, shall hereafter by letters patents, under the great Seal of England, give authority to have or execute any jurisdiction, power or authority Spiritual, or to visit, reform order, or correct any errors, heresies, schisms, abuses or enormities by virtue of this Act, shall not in any wise have authority or power to order, determine, or adjudge any matter or cause to be heresy, but only such as heretofore have been determined, ordered, or adjudged to be heresy by thauthority of the canonical Scriptures, or by the first four general Counsels, or any of them, or by any other general Counsel wherein the same was declared heresy, by the express and plain words of the said canonical Scriptures, or such as here after shallbe ordered, judged, or determined to be heresy, by the high Court of Parliament of this Realm, with th'assent of the Clergy in their convocation. Any thing in this act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.  
AND BE IT FURTHER enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that no person or persons, shallbe hereafter indicted or arraigned for any the offences, made, ordained, revived, or adjudged by this act, unless theridamas be two sufficient witnesses or more, to testify and declare the said offences, whereof he shallbe indicted or arraigned. And that the said witnesses, or so many of them as shallbe living, and within this Realm at the time of the arraygnement of such person so indicted shallbe brought forth in person, face to face, before the party so arraigned, and there shall testify and declare what they can say against the party so arraigned, if he require the same.  
PROVIDED ALSO and be it further enacted by thauthority aforesaid, that if any person or persons shall hereafter happen to give any relief, aid, or comfort, or in any wise be aiding, helping, or comforting to the person or persons of any that shall hereafter happen to be an offender in any matter or case of Preminire or treason revived or made by this act: That then such relief, aid, or comfort given shall not be judged or taken to be any offence, unless theridamas be two sufficient witnesses at the least, that can and will openly testify and declare that the person or persons that so gave such relief, aid, or comfort, had notice and knowledge of such offence, committed and done by the said offender, at the time of such relief, aid, or comfort so to him given or ministered: any thing in this act contained, or any other matter or cause to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
AND WHERE ONE PRETENSID sentence hath heretofore bene given in the consistory in Paul's before certain judges Delegate, by the authority Legantine, of the late cardinal Poole, by reason of a foreign usurped power and authority against richard Chetwod Esquire, and Agnes his wife, by the name of Agnes Wod●…, at the suit of Charles Tyrrel gentleman, in a cause of matrimony solemnized between the said Richard and Agnes, as by the same pretenced sentence more plainly doth appear. From which sentence the said Richard and Agnes have appealed to the court of Rome, which appeal doth there remain, and yet is not determined. May it therefore please your highness that it may be enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if sentence in the said appeal, shall happen to be given at the said court of Rome, for and in the behalf of the said Richard and Agnes, for the reversing of the said pretensid sentence before the end of three score days next after the end of this Session of this present Parliament: That then the same shallbe judged & taken to be good and effectual in the law, and shall, and may be used, pleaded and allowed in any court or place within this Realm, any thing in this act, or in any other act or statute, contained to the contrary notwithstanding. And if no sentence shallbe given at the court of Rome, in the said appeal for the reversing of the said pretensid sentence before thy end of the said three score days, that then it shall and may, be lawful for the said richard, and Agnes, and either of them at any time hereafter to commence, take, sue, and prosecute 〈◊〉 said appeal from the said pretenced sentence, and for the reversing of the said pretenced sentence within this Realm, in such like manner and form as was used to be pursued or might have been pursued within this realm, at any time since the xxiiii year of the reign of the said late king Henry the eight, upon sentences given in the court or courts of any Archbishop within this realm. And that such appeal as so hereafter shallbe taken or pursued by the said Richard Chetwod and Agnes, or either of them, and the sentence that herein or thereupon shall hereafter be given, shallbe judged to be good and ●…fectuall in the law, to all intentes and purposes: any law, custom usage, canon, constitution or any other matter or cause to the contrary notwithstanding.  
PROVIDED ALSO AND BE IT enacted by thauthority aforesaid, that where there is the like appeal now depending in the said court of Rome, between one Robert Harcourt, Merchant of the staple, and Elizabeth Harcourt, otherwise called Elizabeth Robins of the one party: And Anthony Fydell Merchant Stranger, on tother party, that the said Roberte, Elizabeth, and Anthonye, and every of them, shall and may for the prosecuting and trying of their said appeal, have and enjoy the like remedy, benefit, and advantage, 〈◊〉 like manner and form as the said Richard and Agnes, or any of 〈◊〉 hath, may, or aught to have and enjoy, this act or any thing 〈…〉 contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.