los habentes divini judicii severitatem
contra Balthazarem Regem Babylonis, qui vasa sacra
non a se sed a patre a templo ablata in profanos
usus convertit, ea propriis ecclesiis si extant vel
aliis restituant, hortantes etiam et per viscera
misericordiae Jesu Christi obtestantes eos omnes
quos haec res tangit, ut salutis suae non omnino
immemores hoc saltem efficiant, ut ex bonis
ecclesiasticis maxime iis quae ratione personatuum
et vicariatuum populi ministrorum sustentationi
fuerint specialiter destinata, seu aliis
cathedralibus et aliis quae nunc extant inferioribus
ecclesiis curam animarum exercentibus, ita
provideatur, ut eorum pastores commode et honeste
juxta eorum qualitatem et statum sustentari
possint, et curam animarum laudabiliter
exercere."--1 and 2 Philip and Mary, cap. 8, sec.
31.]

Here the act might have been expected to end. The nature of the
transaction between the parliament and the pope had been made
sufficiently clear. Yet, had nothing more been said, the surrender of
their claims by the clergy would have implied that they had parted
with something which they might have legitimately required. Under the
inspiration of the lawyers, therefore, a series of clauses were
superadded, explaining that, notwithstanding the dispensation, "The
title of all lands, possessions, and hereditaments in their majesties'
realms and dominions was grounded in the laws, statutes, and customs
of the same, and by their high jurisdiction, authority royal, and
crown imperial, _and in their courts only_, might be impleaded,
ordered, tried, and judged, and none otherwise:" and, therefore,
"whosoever, by any process obtained out of any ecclesiastical court
within the realm or without, or by pretence of any spiritual
jurisdiction or otherwise, contrary to the laws of the realm, should
inquiet or molest any person or persons, or body politic, for any of
the said lands or things above specified, should incur the danger of
Premunire, and should suffer and incur the forfeitures and pains
contained in the same."[427]

[Footnote 427: Ibid.]

Vainly the clergy had entreated for a limitation or re