The Lacuna Project

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Crown of England

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Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • REL-2.2: The Constitutions of Archbishop Arundel, drafted in 1407 and promulgated in 1409, forbade anyone to translate a text of Scripture into English on his own authority and forbade reading any such translation until the diocesan or a provincial council approved it, under the greater excommunication.
  • REL-2.3: A royal proclamation of June 1530 forbade having the New or Old Testament in English except persons appointed by the king and the bishops to correct the translation, forbade printing English Scripture without the diocesan's approval, and stated that its distribution "dependeth onely vpon the discretion of the superiours."
  • REL-2.4: Between 1530 and 1543 the English Crown, by proclamation, injunction and statute, prohibited English Scripture, then required an English Bible in every parish church, then barred women, artificers, apprentices, journeymen, servingmen of yeoman rank or under, husbandmen and laborers from reading it.
  • REL-2.5: In 1534 Parliament required cathedral chapters to elect the person the king named in his letter missive, declared the king supreme head of the Church of England and granted the Crown first fruits and an annual tenth of church income; in 1559 Parliament required clergy and royal officers to swear that the queen is "only supreme governor" and every minister to use the Book of Common Prayer.
  • REL-2.6: Between 1661 and 1673 Parliament required officeholders to receive the sacrament according to the Church of England and fined nonconforming ministers and attenders at conventicles with part of the fines going to informers, and the Toleration Act of 1689 excused Protestant dissenters from the attendance penalties while saving tithes, parochial duties and ecclesiastical-court prosecution.
  • REL-2.9: Innocent III in 1199 called the desire to understand the divine Scriptures "commendable" while condemning secret lay assemblies and usurped preaching; Thomas More wrote in 1529 that the clergy kept from the laity only translations not yet approved or already condemned; the 1559 Act of Supremacy limited what commissioners could adjudge heresy; and Anne Hudson reports about 250 surviving manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible, including a copy owned by Henry VI.

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 495 1401. Parliament of England (Henry IV): Statute De heretico comburendo, 2 Henry IV c. 15
  • Exhibit 497 June 1530. Henry VIII (printed by Thomas Berthelet): Royal proclamation against erroneous books and the having of Scripture in English, French or Dutch, June 1530
  • Exhibit 502 16 November 1538. Henry VIII (printed by Thomas Berthelet): Royal proclamation of 16 November 1538 on importing and printing English books
  • Exhibit 503 6 May 1541. Henry VIII (printed by Richard Grafton and Edward Whitchurch, 'Cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum'): Royal proclamation of 6 May 1541 ordering the Bible of the largest volume in every church
  • Exhibit 506 1534. Parliament of England (Henry VIII): Act for the Absolute Restraint of Annates and Election of Bishops, 25 Henry VIII c. 20
  • Exhibit 507 November 1534. Parliament of England (Henry VIII): Act of Supremacy, 26 Henry VIII c. 1
  • Exhibit 508 1534. Parliament of England (Henry VIII): Act concerning the payment of First Fruits and an annual tenth of the possessions of the Church, 26 Henry VIII c. 3
  • Exhibit 509 1559. Parliament of England (Elizabeth I): Act restoring ancient jurisdiction (Elizabethan Act of Supremacy), 1 Elizabeth c. 1
  • Exhibit 510 1559. Parliament of England (Elizabeth I): Elizabethan Act of Uniformity, 1 Elizabeth c. 2
  • Exhibit 511 1559. Elizabeth I: Injunctions of Elizabeth, 1559
  • Exhibit 512 1661. Parliament of England (Charles II): Act for the well Governing and Regulating of Corporations, 13 Charles II stat. 2 c. 1
  • Exhibit 513 1665. Parliament of England (Charles II): Act for restraining Non-Conformists from inhabiting in Corporations (Five Mile Act), 17 Charles II c. 2
  • Exhibit 514 1670. Parliament of England (Charles II): Second Conventicle Act, 22 Charles II c. 1
  • Exhibit 515 1673. Parliament of England (Charles II): Act for preventing Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants (Test Act), 25 Charles II c. 2
  • Exhibit 531 1571. Convocation of Canterbury, with royal authority: Articles of Religion of the Church of England (1571 English text), Articles XX and XXXVII