Reformation Parliament

Lots of legislation was passed by the reformation parliament during the the break with Rome.

• The legislation was passed by the reformation parliament but highly influenced by Henry VIII
• The legislation was passed to try to remove all of Rome's power from England
• Henry wanted to increase his own power while removing Rome's influence

• registered Henry's marriage to Catherine as invalid- replaced with marriage to Anne
• the crown was now to pass to Henry and Anne's children
• the nation had to take an oath upholding the marriage
• treasonable offence to attack or deny the marriage
• Sir Thomas More refused to take the oath - charged with treason
• overridden by the Act of succession 1536- children of Jane Seymore in line for the throne - both princesses were now illegitimate

• passed in 1531
• the benefit of clergy for petty treason and murder was abolished
• no longer in church courts and under church laws

• passed in 1529
• limited fees the church could charge
• spring 1534- a 10th of all clerical income was to go to the crown

(Annates- tax payed to bishops for papacy)

• the act was passed in 1532
• it was an act to suspend these payments
• papal relation was to be ignored
• 1534
• Annates were completely abolished- this was because of Henry's excommunication
• there was much debate in parliament about this

• the act was passed in 1534
• this made the King (Henry) supreme head of the church
• seen as a huge way of increasing the King's power and therefore decreasing the power of Rome
• it was a treasonable offence to support the pope over England

• law to convict people for saying people not in England have power
• entire English clergy were convicted by Henry who was the supreme head of the church

• this act stopped appeals going to Rome
• this was to solve the problem about possible appeals about Henry's divorce from Catherine

• there was a petition in 1532
• division between clergy and laity
• the act was against faults of the ordinaries, judges of ecclesiastical courts and how heresy trials were conducted