Research Assistants
Table of English Statutes
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YEAR |
STATUTE |
EFFECT |
| 1531-1533 | Act of Conditional Restraints of Annates (1532) | On the threats of writs of praemunire (writs for the punishment of persons supporting papal jurisdiction in England) against the whole clergy, convocation acknowledges King Henry as the supreme head of the Church in England and abolishes appeals and payments of Annates to Rome. Annates were the payments due to the Pope from first-year encumbants of ecclesiastical benefices. |
| 1534 | Act for the Submission of the Clergy, Act Concerning Ecclesiastical Appointments and Absolute Restraint of Annates, Act Concerning Peter's Pence and Dispensations, Act of Supremacy | Declares the King and his heirs and successors to be the only supreme head, on earth, of the Church of England. Appointment of bishops is transferred from Rome to a conge d'elire from the King and the Church is annexed to the State. |
| 1536 | Dissolution of the smaller monastries by King Henry VIII. | |
| 1539 | Six Articles Act | Greater monasteries dissolved. |
| 1553 | First Act of Repeal | Queen Mary I restores the Catholic doctrine and Mass as they had existed at the end of the reign of King Henry VIII but she did not restore the church lands, nor papal supremacy in England. |
| 1554 | Parliament during the continuing reign of Queen Mary I, votes to reunite with Rome and receives absolution. | |
| 1555 | Grand Bill, Act of Supremacy repealed, old heresy act revived | 4th January the Grand Bill restores the Catholic situation to the condition that existed prior to 1529 but preserved the rights of Elizabeth I. Massive persecution and burning of Protestant heretics; deprived churchmen were executed and Ridley and Latimer were burnt at the stake in Oxford. Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, was convicted of heresy and burnt on 21 March 1556. |
| 1559 | Second Act of Supremacy and Second Act of Uniformity | Revived the act of King Henry VIII that had separated the Church from Rome and abolished papal power in England. During the first year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, all beneficied clergy and crown officials are bound to swear an oath that the Queen was the only supreme governor of the realm in all excclesiastical and temporal causes. Those same clergy and crown officials were also required to deny the spiritual jursidiction of any foreigner or foreign power and to utterly renounce the same on penalty of death. All persons who refrained from taking the oath were debarred from all State and church offices. Pursuant to the Second Act of Uniformity a new prayer book as well as uniformity of all religious service was also ordered. |
| 1570 | Queen Elizabeth I excommunicated by the Pope. | |
| 1571 | 13 Eliz. 1, c. 2, Thirty-Nine Articles | Punished with the penalties of a praemunire any person bringing into the country any Agnus Dei, cross, picture, et cetera from Rome. The Thirty-Nine Articles stated the final formal doctrines of the Church of England, purging the Forty-Two Articles of King Edward VI of any extreme Protestant elements. |
| 1581 | Recusancy Acts | Passed against the Jesuits. |
| 1593 | An act was passed to retain the Queen's subjects in obedience and providing for imprisonment of all offenders until they conformed. To follow a Roman Catholic service of worship was deemed to be disobedient to Her Majesty. | |
| 1605 | 3 Jac. 1, c. 5 | Penalized the sale or purchase of Popish primers. |
| 1664 | Conventicle Act | Made it criminal to hold a religious meeting of more than five persons not of the same family for worship not in accordance with the Church of England's Prayer Book. Indications are that this Act was rigorously enforced. |
| 1678 | 30 Car. 2, st. 2 | Exclusion of Roman Catholics from Parliament was effected by the requirement of a declaration against transubstantiation from members of either House. |
| 1696 | 7 & 8 Wm. 3, c. 27, s. 19 | Roman Catholicas saw disenfrancisement by the requirement of an oath of supremacy required by this Act. |
| 1696 | 7 & 8 Wm. 3, c. 24 | Remained in place until 1791 and effected the exclusion of Roman Catholics from the profession of barrister, attorney, or solicitor by requiring a declaration against transubstantiation which was required under the statute 1672, 25 Car. 2, c. 2. |
| 1698 | 11 & 12 Wm. 3. c. 4 | Punished any Papist assuming the education of youth with imprisonment for life. |
| 1700 | Act of Settlement | Required that the sovereign of Great Britain be a Protestant |
| 1791 | Roman Catholic Relief Act | Permitted freedom of worship with unlocked doors. |
| 1829 | Roman Catholic Relief Act | Permitted enfranchisement and qualification for sitting in Parliament. Also contained a series of enactments directed towards the gradual suppression and prohibition of Jesuits and members of other religious orders, communities, or socieites of the Church of Rome, bound by religious or monastic vows. This Act, however, did not render void any testamentary bequest to such institutions, orders or persons. This Act further prohibited any Roman Catholic to hold the office of regent, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain or Ireland, or of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, or Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. This Act also debarred Roman Catholics from holding office in any public schools. |
| 1832 | Roman Catholic Charities Act | Subjecting Roman Catholics to the same laws as Protestant dissenters with respect to schools and places for religious worship, education, and charitable purposes. Also provided for the banishment of certain persons. |
| 1848 | 11 & 12 Vict., c. 108 | Permitted diplomatic relations between the sovereign of Great Britain with the sovereign of any Roman State. However, the sovereign of Great Britain was prohibited from receiving any priest, Jesuit or member of any other religious order bound in monastic or religious vows as an ambassador of that Roman State. |
| 1867 | Office and Oath Act | Permitted the Lord Chancellor of Ireland to be a Roman Catholic. The office was eventually abolished by the Irish Free State (Consequential Provisions) Act, 1922. |
| 1871 | Universities Tests Act, ss. 1, 8 | Roman Catholics were debarred from holding any professorship of divinity at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge or Durham, or any other office for which membership of the Church of England or holy orders of that Church was required. They were also not permitted to hold office in the colleges of Eton, Westminster or Winchester. |
| 1926 | Roman Catholic Relief Act | Repealed nearly all remaining disabilities of Roman Catholics within Britain. |
| 1974 | Lord Chancellor Act (Tenure of Office & Discharge of Ecclesiastical Functions) | Declared for avoidance of future doubt that the office of Lord Chancellor was and may be occupied by a Roman Catholic. However, his visitational and functions and his gifts of patronage are to be exercised by the Prime Minister or some other Minister of the Crown. |
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