Act of Supremacy 1558

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Act of Supremacy 1558

1558 CHAPTER 1 1 Eliz 1

F1An Acte restoring to the Crowne thauncyent Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiasticall and Spirituall, and abolyshing all Forreine Power repugnaunt to the same.X1

X1 Abbreviations or contractions in the original form of this Act have been expanded into modern lettering in the text set out below.

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I—III. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2 E+W

IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3 E+W

V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4 E+W

VI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5 E+W

VII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F6 E+W

VIII All Spiritual Jurisdiction united to the Crown. E+W

And That suche Jurisdictions Privileges Superiorities and Preheminences Spirituall and Ecclesiasticall, as by any Spirituall or Ecclesiasticall Power or Aucthorite hathe heretofore bene or may lawfully be exercised or used for the Visitacion of the Ecclesiasticall State and Persons, and for Reformacion Order and Correccion of the same and of all maner of Errours Heresies Scismes Abuses Offences Contemptes and Enormities, shall for ever by aucthorite of this present Parliament be united and annexed to the Imperiall Crowne of this Realme: . . . F7

F7 Words repealed by the Act 16 Car. 1 c. 11, s. 1 and confirmed by Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Act 1661 (c. 12), s. 3

IX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F8 E+W

X—XIII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F9 E+W

XIV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F10 E+W

XV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F11 E+W

XVI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F12 E+W

XVII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F13 E+W

XVIII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F14 E+W

XIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F15 E+W

XX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F16 E+W

XXI, XXII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F17 E+W

XXIII, XXIV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F18 E+W

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