Ecclesiastical Licences Act 1533

XVII Granted from Rome to Abbies, &c. shall remain valid. But no Pension shall be paid to the See of Rome; nor Visitations be made thereby, nor Appointments of Heads, &c. nor Oath be made to the Pope. But Visitations, &c. shall be made by Commission from the King. E+W

(X1 )Provyded alway that this acte or any thynge therin conteyned shall not hereafter be taken [X2 or] expounded to the derogacion or takyng away of any grauntes or confirmacions of any liberties privyleges or jurisdiccion of any Monasteries [X3 Abbes] Prioryes or other Houses or places exempte whiche here to fore the makyng of this acte hath byn obteyned at the See of Rome or by auctoritie therof; but that every suche graunt and confirmacion shalbe of the same value force and effecte as they were afore the makyng of this acte, and as yf this acte (X4 ) never ben made: Provided always that the Abbotts Priours and other cheff rulers and governors of such Monasteries Abbeys Priories and other Houses and places exempt, shall not hereafter pay any pension porcion or other cense to the See of Rome, nor admytt or accept any visitacion, nor any confirmacion frome or by the seid See of Rome or by auctoritie therof, of or for any person to be electe named or presented to be hedes of any such Monasteries Abbeys Priories Places or houses exempt; nor shall make any corporall othe to the Bysshop of Rome otherwise called the Pope, uppon the paynes lymytted in this acte: but that every suche visitacion and confirmacion of suche hedes electe in any suche Monasteries Abbeys Priories houses or places exempt, where after theire election thei were bounden to have and opteyne any confirmacion of theire eleccion or of the person named presented or electe, shalbe frome hensforth had made and don within this Realme at and within every suche Abbeys Monasteries Priories and other Houses and places exempte, by suche person and persones as shalbe appoynted by auctoritie of the Kynges Commission frome tyme to tyme as the [X5 case] shall requyre and not by the See of Rome nor by auctoritie therof; any thynge in this next priviso above specified to the contrary therof notwithstondyng.

Editorial Information

X1 This and the Four following Provisoes are inserted in a Schedule annexed to the original Act.

X2 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: nor O. & nu. 28 [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge and nu. 28 refers to the numbering of the membranes composing the Parliament Roll]

X3 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Abbeys O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]

X4 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: had O. & nu. 28 [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge and nu. 28 refers to the numbering of the membranes composing the Parliament Roll]

X5 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: cause nu. 28 [nu. 28 refers to the numbering of the membranes composing the Parliament Roll]