The Lacuna Project

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Agency

Parliament of England and later of the United Kingdom

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-2.4: 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-2.7: The Tithe Commutation Act of 1836 converted tithe in each parish into a money rentcharge on the land recoverable by distress; church rates ended in 1868, tithe rentcharge was extinguished on 2 October 1936 with compensation to owners and redemption annuities charged on land, and the last annuities were extinguished from 2 October 1977.
  • 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 505 1543 (session 1542-43). Parliament of England (Henry VIII): Act for thadvauncement of true Religion and for thabbolisshment of the contrarie, 34 & 35 Henry VIII c. 1
  • 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 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 516 24 May 1689. Parliament of England (William and Mary): Toleration Act, 1 William and Mary c. 18
  • Exhibit 517 9 May 1828. Parliament of the United Kingdom: Act repealing the sacramental qualification for certain offices, 9 George IV c. 17
  • Exhibit 518 18 August 1836. Parliament of the United Kingdom: Act for the Commutation of Tithes in England and Wales, 6 & 7 William IV c. 71
  • Exhibit 519 31 July 1868. Parliament of the United Kingdom: Compulsory Church Rate Abolition Act 1868, 31 & 32 Victoria c. 109
  • Exhibit 520 31 July 1936. Parliament of the United Kingdom: Tithe Act 1936, 26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8 c. 43
  • Exhibit 521 1977. Parliament of the United Kingdom: Finance Act 1977, section 56 (annuities under the Tithe Acts 1936 and 1951)
  • Exhibit 532 1548. Parliament of England (Edward VI): Act for the true payment of Tithes, 2 & 3 Edward VI c. 13