Observations On the Statutes of the Reformation Parliament: in the Reign of ...
Observations On the Statutes of the Reformation Parliament: in the Reign of ...
Amos, Andrew, 1791-1860
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VIII. c. 16). Both these Acts have been treated of in former chapters; it is, however, proper, in this place, to notice, with regard to the latter Act, which was, in fact, the ratification, by Parliament, of an enormous penalty, that it inflicted a stnnping blow on the clerical order. This plunder was aggravated by a contemptible pretext of law; it. involved every clergyman, although he might not willingly or unwillingly have bowed to Wokey's legatine power; it was the more in- equitable in tha...t all the laity, however some of them might have been among Wolsey's most attached juutorSy were par- doned. From the date of this grievous imposition all the spirit of convocations was subdued ; their resolutions were thenceforth Digitized by Google SESSION III. A.D. 1531—2. 246 obtained and used only for a covering or colouring of Henry's measure8\ Session III. A.D. 1531—2. In this Session the procrastination manifested in the pro- ceedings at Borne, in the matter of the divorce, seemed to sug- gest the use of more pungent stimulants than had theretofore been administered.
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