RCCE ACTS Flashcards
Passed against Cardinal Wolsey in 1529, requisitioning his property after his failure to achieve annulment at Blackfriars court
Act of Attainder
Crime of appealing to power outside of the realm for the resolution of a situation in England
Praemunire, outlawed in two 14th century laws by Richard II, Statute of Provisors 1351 and Statute of Praemunire 1353
Actions in late 1530 charging 15 churchmen with Praemunire, precipitating what
Submission of the Clergy, it being made clear to the convocation that he would withdraw the charge if the church would give him £100,000 and agree to call him ‘Supreme Head of the church in England and Wales (as far as the word of God allows).’ The convocation accepted, continuing to recognise the Canon Law of the church due to the words in brackets.
Act giving statutory authority to the Submission of the Clergy
Act for the Submission of the Clergy, passed in 1534, with the Submission of the Clergy having been written up in 1532 by the Bishop of Hereford and passed by the Convocation of Canterbury.
petition passed as a result of grievances against the clergy, particularly focusing on money extracted from the laity, charges of heresy, excess joly days, mortuary fees.
1532 Supplication against the Ordinaries
bill removing the chief source of revenue the Church recieved from England. Diplomatic bargaining tool.
1532 Act to Remove Annates
Act forbidding all repeals to the Pope on religious matters, making Henry the final authority in English possessions.
March 1533 Act for the Restraint of Repeals penned by Cromwell principally to block Catherine of Aragon’s appeal, going back to fouteenth century. Placed all ecclesiastical jurisdiction under Henry’s control. Important as the former Archbishop Warham continued to support the Pope. Caused the Convocation of Canterbury to rule that it could nullify the marriage and the Pope could not.
What did the legislation of the first parliamentary session of 1534 reinforce
confirmed prohibition of payment of Annates to Rome
granted right to elect bishops and abbots to the king
confirmed the supreme legal authority of secular courts by stating apppeals from Church courts were to go to the king in Chancery.
Act which put ecclesiastical powers in the hands of the king, restricting an Archbishop’s right to allow departures from Canon law.
1534 Act forbidding papal dispensation and payment of Peter’s Pence. prevented priests from holding more than one parish. also prevented payment of annual tax to Rome
Act invalidating the marriage of Catherine and Henry, making mary illegitimate, made it an act of treason to deny the succession of the children of Henry and Anne
1534 First Act of Succession
Act from the second parliamentary session of 1534
Act of Supremacy, not making Henry the supreme head but saying that he ‘justly and rightly is and is ought to be the Supreme Head of the Church of England and that he should be taken, accepted and regarded as the Supreme Head’
gave the king the right to collect fruits and tenths, made it treasonable to call the monarch a heretic or schismatic .
title claimed by Henry VIII in January 1535
‘Supreme Head of the Church of England’
bill lodged against Jogn Fisher in 1534 for this support of Elizabth Barton, before his arrest for treason for refusing to sweat the oath of succession
bill of Attainder
What changed regarding parliamentary acts in 1529
prior to 1529, most bills were put forward by MPs on local issues, and passed in return for taxes to the king. After 1529, privy councillors introducted bills on befald of the king, with parliament giving legitimacy to the king’s actions. statute law became the greatest force in the land.
Act declaring elizabeth to be illegitimate
second Act of Succession, 1536, ammended in 1539 and 1543
what was Thomas Cromwell appointed in 1534
Vice-gerent in Matters Ecclesiastical, gave him power over the administration of the church
issued by Cromwell, requiring each parish to have a Bible in English, for one.
1536 Injunctions
full audit of the property of the church, driven by Cromwell’s desire to fund Henry’s military ambitions, leading to the dissolution of the monasteries
Valor Ecclesiasticus
name (i think generic) for document outlining a plan for the nationalisation of church assets
State Paper of 1534
Act dissolving smaller monasteries
Act for the Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries 1536. 300 religious houses whose income was less than £200 per annum. monks allowed to go to larger monasteries and 67 of the 300 were exempted.
offered to abbots for signing over their possessions what and when
1538, large pensions
Act allowing voluntart surrender of monastic property to the king
Suppression of Religous Houses Act 1539 (April)
1539 act re-enforcing seven sacraments
Act of the Six Articles, shows Henry’s personal conservatism, pleased court conservatives, caused 2 bishops to resign their sees.
Act pushed through by reformist faction pushing doctrine towards Protestantism
1536 Act of the Ten Articles
