Abolition of High Commission Court Act 1640
Eliz. c. 1.
IIArchbishops, Bishops, and other Ecclesiastical Persons and Courts not to inflict Penalties, Corporal Punishment, &c.
IIIOffenders convicted disabled from any Office or Employment by the King's Commission or Letters Patents.
IVNo new Court to be erected with the like Power.

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Abolition of High Commission Court Act 1640X1

1640 CHAPTER 11 16 Cha 1

An Act for repeal of a branch of a Statute primo Elizabethe concerning Commissioners for causes Ecclesiasticall.

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X1Abbreviated title derived from Chronological Table of the Statutes: Covering the Period from 1235 to the End of 1971 (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1972)