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Chronological Index Please Note: Until The Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 was introduced the legal year began on 25 March. Therefore, all legislation passed between 1 January and that date is counted as part of the previous calendar year. Sir Thomas More's Opening Speech - Wolsey a Castrated Ram ​ 3 November 1529 1st Legislative Session 3 November 1529 - 17 December 1529 1529 Pluralism No 13 ​ An Act that no Spiritual Persons shall take to farm, of the King or any other Person, any Lands or Tenements for Term of Life, Lives, Years or at Will, &c.; and for Pluralities of Benefices; and for Residence . 2nd Legislative Session 16 January 1531 - 31 March 1531 1531 Pardon of Clergy No 15 ​ An Act concerning the pardon granted to the King’s Spiritual Subjects of the Province of Canterbury for the Praemunire 3rd Legislative Session 15 January 1532 - 14 May 1532 1532 Supplication against the Ordinaries (The Petition of the Commons) Summary of Supplication A petition passed by the House of Commons detailing grievances against Church of England prelates and the clergy 1532 The Answer[s] of the Ordinaries The response of the clergy to the petition 1532 Submission of the Clergy Although the submission was agreed in Convocation, sitting at the same time as Parliament, in 1532 it was not introduced into civil law until 1534 The English church submitted to the King’s authority . No church law in future would be legal without his consent 1532 Conditional Restraint of Annates Suspension of traditional payments to Rome 4th Legislative Session 4 February 1533 - 7 April 1533 1533 The Ecclesiastical Appeals Act 1532 - The Preamble An Act making the King the final legal authority in England to the exclusion of Rome. ​'Where by divers sundry old authentic histories and chronicles it is manifestly declared and expressed that this realm of England is an empire... 5th Legislative Session 15 January 1534 - 30 March 1534 1534 First Act of Succession An Act which made Princess Elizabeth, successor to the Crown by declaring Princess Mary a bastard. 1534 Submission of Clergy Enactment of the above in 1532 1534 Absolute Restraint of Annates & Election of Bishops Complete termination of the above with had been suspended in 1532 1534 Act Forbidding Papal Dispensations and Peter's Pence 6th Legislative Session 3 November 1534 - 18 December 1534 1534 Act of Supremacy An Act that required all those asked to take the oath to recognise Anne Boleyn as King Henry VIII's lawful wife and their children legitimate heirs to the throne. Anyone refusing to take the oath was guilty of treason. ​ 1534 Oath to the Succession ​​The oath for the act 1534 Treason Act An Act which made it treason, punishable by death, to disavow the Act of Supremacy. The Oath of Supremacy – Published in 1535 The oath for the act 7th Legislative Session 4 February 1536 - 14 April 1536 1536 Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries An Act to dissolve monasteries with an income of less than £200 a year. End of the Reformation Parliament - 14 April 1536 ​The mother of Henry VIII's son is at the heart of the rebellion to overthrow the government of the tyrannical monarch, the crown was Henry Fitzroy’s by right. He would lead the fight to stop the king’s evil councillors tearing down the monasteries.. . Read More Later Reforming Articles and Legislation 6th Parliament of Henry VIII's Reign 8 June 1536 - 18 July 1536 1536 Second Act of Succession An Act, following the conviction and execution of Anne Boleyn, excluding Elizabeth from succession In Convocation ​ 1536 Ten Articles See of Rome Act 1536 ​An Act extinguishing the Authority of the Bishop of Rome 1536 The First Royal Injunctions of Henry VIII​ 1538 The Second Royal Injunctions of Henry VIII 1539 Dissolution of the Greater Monasteries An Act for the dissolution of the remaining 552 monasteries after the Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries Act of 1535 1539 Six Articles A reversal of some of Cromwell's polices enacted, he claimed, while he was ill 1543 Third Succession Act 1545 Dissolution of Chantries Link to Summary of Sessions for the Reign

Catherine of Aragon Thomas More Thomas Cromwell Anne Boleyn Thomas Cranmer John Fisher Thomas Audley Richard Rich Jane Seymour Thomas Howard Thomas Becket Charles Brandon Jane Seymour Anne of Cleves Catherine Parr

Henry VIII, the Reign.