topic 6

• 1529, 1529


  parliament summoned, clergy legal privilege removed by act of parliament
• 1530


  praemunire changes brought against leading churchmen
• 1532


  submission of the clergy, supplication of the ordinaries, act to remove annates
• 1533


  act in restrain of appeals
• 1534

  act forbidding papal dispensation and the payments of the peter's pence, act of succession, act of supremacy
• 1536

  parliament dissolution
• criticisms of the church courts

  excess fines which clergy charged for probate, the payment of mortuary fee's, the church was involved in trade,
• probate

  a legal process to list the possessions of an individual when they died and which enabled the goods to be passed to another
• act of attainder

  passed by parliament as a punishment for those who had committed a crime against the monarch. lands and titles were forfeited and the traitors property would revert to the crown
• Cardinal Wolsey's dismissal

  due to his failure to annul or find a way to annul Catherine and his marriage he was dismissed at Blackfriars court of chancellor and first minister. he was forced to go to York and still held the title of archbishop. henry wanted to get his property from wolsey and he was able to due to the attainder act. he was then summoned, accused for treason but then he fell ill and died on the journey in Nov 1530
• thomas cromwell

  he was chosen by henry to be apart of the privy council, he helped wolsey dissolve 30 monasteries
• praemunire


  to appeal to a power outside of the realm for resolution of a situation within england that was under jurisdiction of the crown. established as a crime in england by a law passed by parliament in 1351 in the reign of richard ii
• act of submission of the clergy

  1532. it was a law that reduced the power of the Church in England and made it more dependent on the King.
• ordinaries

  bishops who have immediate jurisdiction
• supplication 


  asking for something earnestly or humbly; in this context, the list of offences with which the bishops were charged
• annates

  a monetary payment made english bishops to the church in rome from their first years income from their diocese
• act to remove annates

  1532. the actions taken up to 1532 had put pressure on the role of the church in england and henry now sought a direct attack on the finances of rome. the bill removed the chief source of revenue that the church in rome received from england.
• supplication against the ordinaries

  1532. it was a petition passed the house of commons in 1532. it was a result of grievances against the clergy. The Supplication Against the Ordinaries in 1532 was a formal complaint from the English House of Commons to Henry VIII about the power and actions of Church officials, or "ordinaries," who enforced Church laws and interfered in people’s lives.
• 1533 january

  anne and henry married by thomas cranmer secretly, who had been appointed by the pope as archbishop of canterbury
• act for restraint of appeals

  act for restraint of appealstls to the pope in rome on religious matters, making the king the final legal authority in all such matters in england, wales, and other english possessions.
• act for forbidding papal dispensation and peter pence 1534

  put all ecclesiastical powers in the hands of the king and restricted and archbishops right to allow departures from canon law which had allowed priests to hold more than one parish (simony); this was a major objection of many lay people and was seen to reinforce the view that the clergy was greedy. also this act prevented payments of annual tax to rome
• first act of succession 1534

  this act made henrys marriage with catherine invalid, declared mary to be illegitimate and secured the succession for the children of anne. even more important was the clause which made it an act of treason to deny the succession and the requirement that the whole nation should swear an oath to observe it.
• chancery


  the court of chancery was set up to ensure fairness in common law and that cases were dealt with swiftly
• thomas cranmer (1489-1556)


  key evangelical thinker. In 1529, he produced a defence for the royal divorce. although he had a held a position no higher than archeacon to taunton he was suprisingly promoted to be archbishop of canterbury in 1533, having been recalled to england following the death of william warham in august 1552.
• supplication against the ordiaries 1532


  The Commons argued that these officials abused their authority in religious courts, often acting without the King’s oversight and imposing strict regulations. This complaint pressured Henry to limit the Church’s influence and helped pave the way for the English Reformation. It reflected growing frustration with the Church's power, supporting Henry's eventual decision to reduce the Pope’s authority in England
• parliament


  back then parliament was mainly called when the king needed money to provide forces either for invasions of a foreign country or to defend England from the attacks of enemies. Henry had called 3 parliament before 1529.