APPENDIX OF STATUTES
Hot in the
) finled s'k/s.
Co lex. Tit. 5.
c. 1.
Great sums
of moDey
}inve been
couvcyeil
out of the
realm, &c.
for first-
fruits of
arclibishop-
ricks and
bishopricks,
fwitbout
which ilis-
jiatch could
not be had
at the see of
Kome) to
the inipo-
verisliingof
the nation,
and some-
times the
ruin'of the
friends of
the persons
promoted,
23 HENRY VIII.
Cap. XX.
An act concerning restraint oj jxiyment of Annates to thi
Rome.
see 0/
Forasmuch as it is tvell perceived, hy long approved experience,
that great and inestimable sums of money have been daily conveyed
out of this realm, to the impoverishment of the same ; and especially
snch su)iis of money as the Pope's holiness, his predecessors, and
the court of Rome, hy long time have heretofore taken of all and
singular those spiritual persons which have been named, elected,
presented, or posttdated to be archbishops or bishops within this
realm of England, under the title of Annates, otherwise ccdled
first-fruits : tvhich Annates, or first-friiits, have been taken of
every archbishoprick, or bishoprick, within this realm,, by restraint
oJ the Pope's bulls, for confir^nations, elections, admissions, postu-
lations, provisions, collations, dispositions, institutions, installa-
tions, investitures, orders, holy benedictions, pcdles, or other things
requisite and necessary to the attai^iing of those their promotions ;
and have been compelled to pay, before they coidd attain the same^
great sums of money, before they might receive any p)art of the
fruits of the said archbishoprick, or bishoprick, whereunto they
xoere named, elected, presented, or postulated ; by occasion whereof
not only the treasure of tins realm hath been greatly conveighed out
of the same, but also it hath hajypened many times, by occasion of
death, imto snch archbishops, and bishops, so newly promoted,
within two or tltree years after his or their consecration, that Ins
or their friends, by whom, he or they have been holpen to advance
and make payment of the said Annates, or first-fruits, have be^n
thereby utterly undone and impoverished : and for because the said
Annates have risen, groicn, and encreased, by an uncliaritable
