So PR, EXP. 4 Ed. 4. c, 7. 4H. 7. c. 11. sjH.S. c.i. 3 Ed. 6. c. 6. 5&6Ed. 6. c. 7. C. 14 — 17. Anno tricefimo feptimoFlEN rici VIII. A. D. 1545. II. Provided alway, and be it enacted by the (aid Authority, That all Actions, Bills, Plaints and Infor- mations now commenced or depending in the King's Courts of the Exchequer, King's Bench or Common Place, of or for any Offence done to the contrary to the Tenor of the faid former Act, fhall continue and be in their Force and Strength ; and all Judgments and Executions therein to be fued and had in fuch Manner and Form as if this Act of Repeal had never been had or made. CAR XIV. There fhall be a Corporation or Body Politick of two Perfons, to be called for ever the Mafters or Keepers of the Pier or Key of Scarborough in the County of York, who fhall have Authority to govern the Works of the fame Key or Pier, to hire Workmen, buy Stuff, and make Provifion for every Thing thereunto belonging, which fhall receive yearly of every Owner of any Meffuages, Lands, Tenements and Here- ditaments, or Rents, within the Liberties of Scarborough, the fifth Part of the yearly Value of the fame, towards the Reparation of the faid Pier : For the which the faid Mafters or Keepers may diftrain. CAP. XV. No Perfon, or other than Merchants of the Staple, and their Factors and Servants, to be fhipped only to the Staple, and other than fuch as fhall convert the fame into Yarn, Hats, Girdles or Cloth (and not to fell again) fhall buy or take Promife of Bargain of any Woolls of the growing in the Shires of Kent, or twenty-feven Shires, upon Pain of Forfeiture of the double Value thereof, but every Perfon may bring his own Wooll to the open Market, and fell it. No Perfon fhall buy or bargain for Wooll for any Mer- chant Stranger, upon Pain of Forfeiture thereof. [To continue to the End of the next Parliament.] 3PR l The Lordfhip of Ri; C A P. XVI. •t, with feveral other Lands, to be annexed to the Duchy of Lancajlcr. The Authority of the King as Supreme Head of ths Church. The Caufe why ijo married Man fiiould exercife Ecclefiaftical Ju- lifdiction. 2.5 II. 8. c. 19. - 7- The Clergy have no Ecclefuftical Jurifdiftiun but by and under the King. n 7 H.S. c. 20, S.4- ' 3» H. S. c.7. Bo-ftors of the Civil Law, if they be Laymen, feeing married or unmarried, may exercife Ewle£- CAP. XVII. A Bill that Doctors of Civil Law being married may exercife Ecclefiaftical Jurifdiction. IN moll humble wife (hew and declare unto your Highnefs your moft faithful, humble and obedient Subjects, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, of this prefent Parliament affembled, That where your moft Royal Majefty is and hath always juftly been, by the Word of God, Supreme Head in Earth of the Church of England, and hath full Power and Authority to correct, punifh and reprefs all manner of Herefies, Errors, Vices, Sins, Abufes, Idolatries, Hypocrifies and Superftitions, fprung and growing within the fame, and to exercife all other manner of Jurifdictions, commonly cal- led Ecclefiaftical Jurifdiction : (z) Neverthelefs the Bifhop of Rome and his Adherents, minding utterly as much as in him lay to abolifh, obfeure and delete fuch Power given by God to the Princes of the Earth, whereby they might gather and get to themfelves the Government and Rule of the World, have, in their Councils and Synods Provincial, made, ordained, eftablifhed and decreed divers Ordinances and Confti- tutions, that no lay or married Man fhould or might exercife or occupy any Jurifdiction Ecclefiaftical, nor fhould be any Judge or Regifter in any Court commonly called Ecclefiaftical Court, left their falfe and ufurped Power, which they pretended and went about to have in Chrift's Church, fhould decay, wax vile, and be of no Reputation, as by the faid Councils and Conftitutions Provincial appeareth ; which ftanding and remaining in their Effect, not abolifhed by your Grace's Laws, did found to appear to make greatly for the faid ufurped Power of the faid Bifhop of Rome, and to be directly re- pugnant to your Majefty as Supreme Head of the Church, and Prerogative Royal, your Grace being a Lay- Man. ' II. And albeit the faid Decrees, Ordinances and Conftitutions, by a Statute made in the five and twen- tieth Year of your moft noble Reign, be utterly abolifhed, fruftrate and of none Effect ; yet becaufe the contrary thereunto is not ufed, nor put in Practice by the Archbifhops, Bifhops, Archdeacons and other Ecclefiaftical Perfons, who have no manner of Jurifdiction Ecclefiaftical, but by, under and from your Royal Majefty, it addeth, or at the leaft may give Occafion to fome evil-difpofed Perfons to think, and little to regard the Proceedings and Cenfures Ecclefiaftical made by your Highnefs and your Vicegerent, Officials, Commiffaries, Judges and Vifitators, being alfo lay and married Men, to be of little or none Effect or Force, whereby the People gathereth Heart and Prefumption to do Evil, and not to have fuch Reverence to your moft godly Injunctions and Proceedings as becometh them. ' III. But forafmuch as your Majefty is the only and undoubted fupreme Head of the Church of Eng- land, and alfo of Ireland,, to whom by Holy Scripture all Authority and Power is wholly given to hear and determine all manner Caufes Ecclefiaftical, and to correct Vice and Sin whatfoever, and to all fuch Perfons as your Majefty fhall appoint thereunto ; that in Confideration thereof, as well for the Inftruc- tion of ignorant Perfons, as alfo to avoid the Occafion of the Opinion aforefaid, and the fetting forth of your Prerogative Royal and Supremacy :' IV. It may therefore pleafe your Highnefs, that it may be ordained and enacted by Authority of this pre- fent Parliament, That all and fingular Perfons, as well lay, as thofe that be now married or hereafter fhall be married, being Doctors of the Civil Law, lawfully create and made in any Univerfity, which fhall be made, ordained, constituted and deputed to be any Chancellor, Vicar General, CommiiTary, Official, Scribe .or Regifter, by your Majefty, or any of your Heirs or Succellbrs, or by any Archbifhop, Bifhop, Archdeacon
