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Exhibit 506

Act for the Absolute Restraint of Annates and Election of Bishops, 25 Henry VIII c. 20

Exhibit 506 ยท Statute

Act for the Absolute Restraint of Annates and Election of Bishops, 25 Henry VIII c. 20

shall with all speed and celerity in due form elect and choose the said person named in the said letters missive

Ends payments of annates and first fruits to Rome; at each vacancy the king grants the chapter a license to elect with a letter missive naming the person, whom the chapter must elect and none other; if the chapter delays beyond twelve days the king nominates by letters patent.

Source
Parliament of England (Henry VIII)
Date
1534
Quoted from
Gee and Hardy, Documents Illustrative of English Church History (1896), no. LII, p. 205 (from Statutes of the Realm III, 462)
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://archive.org/details/documentsillustr00geehuoft
Accessed
2026-11-09
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit
Note
Gee's headnote: the election clause was repealed by 1 Edw. VI c. 2, which substituted direct nomination.

Cited by

Finding REL-2.5
Primary record 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.