s
called, emerged, finished, in the form of a petition to the crown:--

"Whereas," so runs the preamble,[407] "since the 20th year of King
Henry VIII., of famous memory, much false and erroneous doctrine hath
been taught, preached, and written, partly by divers natural-born
subjects of this realm, and partly being brought in hither from sundry
foreign countries, hath been sown {p.181} and spread abroad within
the same--by reason whereof as well the spiritualty as the temporalty
of your highness's realm and dominions have swerved from the obedience
of the See Apostolic, and declined from the unity of Christ's Church,
and so have continued until such time as--your majesty being first
raised up by God, and set in the seat royal over us, and then by his
divine and gracious Providence knit in marriage with the most noble
and virtuous prince the king our sovereign lord your husband--the
pope's holiness and the See Apostolic sent hither unto your majesties,
as unto persons undefiled, and by God's goodness preserved from the
common infection aforesaid, and to the whole realm, the Most Reverend
Father in God the Lord Cardinal Pole, Legate _de Latere_, to call us
again into the right way, from which we have all this long while
wandered and strayed; and we, after sundry and long plagues and
calamities, seeing, by the goodness of God, our own errours, have
knowledged the same unto the said Most Reverend Father, and by him
have been and are (the rather at the contemplation of your majesties)
received and embraced into the unity of Christ's Church, upon our
humble submission, and promise made for a declaration of our
repentance to repeal and abrogate such acts and statutes as had been
made in parliament since the said 20th year of the said King Henry
VIII., against the supremacy of the See Apostolic, as in our
submission exhibited to the said most Reverend Father in God, by your
majesties appeareth--it may like your majesty, for the accomplishment
of our promise, that all such laws be repealed. That is to say:--

[Footnote 407: 1 and 2 Philip and Mary, cap. 8.]

"The Act against obtaining Dispensations from Rome for Pluralities and
non-Residence.[408]

[Footnote 408: 21 Henry VIII. cap. 13.]

"The Act that no person shall be cited out of the Diocese where he or
she dwelleth.[409]

[Footnote 409: 23 Henry VIII. cap. 9.]

"The Act against Appeals to the See of Rome.[410]