[Footnote 410: 24 Henry VIII. cap. 12.]

"The Act against the Payment of Annates and First-fruits to the See of
Rome.[411]

[Footnote 411: 23 Henry VIII. cap. 20. The Act was
repealed, but the annates were not restored.]

"The Act for the Submission of the Clergy.[412]

[Footnote 412: 25 Henry VIII. cap. 19.]

"The Act for the Election and Consecration of Bishops.[413]

[Footnote 413: 25 Henry VIII. cap. 20.]

"The Act against Exactions from the See of Rome.[414]

[Footnote 414: 25 Henry VIII. cap. 21.]

"The Act of the Royal Supremacy.[415]

[Footnote 415: 26 Henry VIII. cap. 1.]

{p.182} "The Act for the Consecration of Suffragan Bishops.[416]

[Footnote 416: 26 Henry VIII. cap. 14.]

"The Act for the Reform of the Canon Law.[417]

[Footnote 417: 27 Henry VIII. cap. 15.]

"The Act against the Authority of the Pope.[418]

[Footnote 418: 28 Henry VIII. cap. 10.]

"The Act for the Release of those who had obtained Dispensations from
Rome.[419]

[Footnote 419: 28 Henry VIII. cap. 16.]

"The Act authorising the King to appoint Bishops by Letters
Patent.[420]

[Footnote 420: 31 Henry VIII. cap. 9.]

The Act of Precontracts and Degrees of Consanguinity.[421]

[Footnote 421: 33 Henry VIII. cap. 38.]

The Act for the King's Style.[422]

[Footnote 422: 35 Henry VIII. cap. 3.]

The Act permitting the Marriage of Doctors of Civil Law."[423]

[Footnote 423: 37 Henry VIII. cap. 17.]

In the repeal of these statutes the entire ecclesiastical legislation
of Henry VIII. was swept away; and, so far as a majority in a single
parliament could affect them, the work was done absolutely and with
clean completeness.

But there remained two other acts collaterally and accidentally
affecting the See of Rome; for the repeal of which the court was no
less anxious than for the repeal of the Act of Supremacy, where the
parliament were not so complaisant.

Throughout the whole reaction under Mary there was one point on which
the laity never wavered. Attempts such as that which has been just
mentioned were made incessantly, directly or indirectly, to alter the
succession and cut off Elizabeth. They were like the fretful and
profitle