A. D. 154^- Anno fccundo 2c tcrtio I'liJWAttDi C. 16—20. 4 t t> Town ; any Statute, Law, Ordinance or other Thing whatfix r had or inad<- to the contrary ii UOtwithftanding ; (2) and that upon Pain ol Forfeit m cvefyint .aicc ontrary to this Statute ; the one Moiety ol every fuch Fori Moiety thcrcol to be to him 01 them that will fi 1'laint, Action of Debt or Information, wherein no allowed. [Continued by 22 & 23 Car. 2. c. 19. except a to fuch II thereby altered or i C A P. XVI, The King fliall have Authority to remove fuch as have by Letters Patents the 1 n (Yes Oi Bulwarks, giving to them as good lees, Wages and Profits and ci fuch like Ellate, and as good Aflu- in the fame, as they had in the other. EXP. C A P. XVII. A Confirmation of the Attaindi r of Sir JVilUam Sben iWfan, who was indicted and attainted by ConfcfEon of High Treaibn, for the counterfeiting of Teftons to the Value of xij. M. li. PR. CAP. XVIII. Sir Tfmrnas Seymour, Lord Seymour, Lord Admiral attainted of High Trcafon for attempting to get into his Cuflody the Perfon of the King and the Government of the Realm, for obtaining many Offices, retain- ing many Men into his Service, for making great Provifion of Money and Victuals, and for endeavouring to marry the Lady Elizabeth the King's Sifter, and for pcrfwading the King in his tender Age to take upon him the Rule and Order of himfelf. All Perfons fhall be paid Inch Debts as the faid Lord Seymour did owe them. PR. C A P. XIX. An A61 touching Abilinencc from Flelh in Lent and other ufual Times.
- A L BEIT the King's Subjects now having a more perfect: and clear Light of the Gofocl and true e x P.
' A Word of God, through the infinite Mercy and Clemency of Almighty God, by the Hands of the Eating of Flcfn ' King's Majefty, and his molt Noble Father of famous Memory, promulgate, {hewed, declared and open- c: > certain Dayi
- ed, and thereby perceiving that one Day or one kind of Meat of it felf is not more holy, more pure, or ' n f, rimes ' or -
' more clean than another, for that all Days and all Meats be of their Nature of one equal Purity, Clean- ,'&g£ t g c , ., ' nefs and Holinefs, and that all Men fhould by them live to the Glory of God, and at all Times and for
- all Meats give Thanks unto him, of which Meats none can defile Chriftian Men or make them unclean at
- any Time, to whom all Meats be lawful and pure, fo that they be not ufed in Difobedience or Vice : (2)
' Yet forafmuch as divers of the King's Subjects, turning their Knowledge therein to fatisfy their Senfuality, ' where they fhould thereby increafe in Virtue, have of late Time more than in Times paft broken and con-
- teamed fuch Abftinencc, which hath been lifed in this Realm upon the Fridays and Saturdays, the Embring EmtringDavr,
' Days, and other Days, commonly called Vigils, and in the Time common! v called Lent, and other ac- Lent.
- cuftomed Times : (3) The King's Majefty considering that due and godly Ahftinence is a Mean to Ver-
- tue, and to fubdue Mens Bodies to their Soul and Spirit, and confidering alfo fpccially that I-'ifhers and
' Men ufinc; the Trade of living by Fifhing in the Sea, may thereby the rather be fet on work, and that by ' eating of Fifh much Flcfh jfhall be faved and increafed, (4) and alfo for divers other Confiderations and ' Commodities of this Realm,' doth ordain and enact, with the A.flent of the Lords Spiritual and Tempo- ral, and the Commons, in this prefent Parliament aflcmbled, and by the Authority of the fame, That all All La-.vs eo'n- manner of Statutes, Laws, Conftitutions and Ufages, concerning any manner of Fading or Abftinence ccrning Failing from any kinds of Meats heretofore in this Realm made or ufed, fliall from the firft Day oi May next enfu- repealed. ing lofe their Force and Strength, and be void and of none Effect, &c. Th . e Pe ??!?i for b ° ' ' eating cf Flcfh upon any Day "led commonly as a Fifh-dny. zj El. c. II. Altered as to the Penslty. 5 EI. c. 5. §. 15. and 55 EI, e. 7. §. 12, The Penalty for the feconi OStnce. Juftices of Gaol-delivery and IVr.cc fhall determine thefe Offences, To what Perfons this Statute fliall not extend. St. Lsurtttce Even, ar.d St. Mwk's Day. Within what Time the Offender fhall be indie! cd. The reft of the Act. is OBS. the Laws appointing Fifh-dayi being expired. CAP. XX. An Incumbent for not paying of his Tenths due to the King, the fame being demanded, fhall be deprived of that Benefice. HERE in the Parliament holden upon Prorogation at JVeflminfier the third Day of ' VV the fix and twentieth Year of the Reign of the moll excellent Prince, King Henry the Eighth, I ithertoour Sovereign Lord the King's Majefty that noW is, amongft other Things concerning the Payment of one annual Penfion of the tenth Part of all Pofleflions of the Church, Spiritual and Temporal, grant- ed to the King's Highnefs and his Heirs, it was enacted, ordained and eftablifhed, That every Eccl.fi- - ftieal Perfon, and other, having any Ecclefiaftical Promotion or Dignity, fpecified in the faid Act, which I did not duly pay the faid tenth Part, and by Reafon thereof were certified by the Archbifhop, Bifhop or rauthorifed in the faid Act, fhould upon fuch Certificate made according to the Tenor of the faid Act, be judged deprived itfofiMo of all fuch Dignities and Promotions Spiritual, that any fuch Incumbent H h h 2 ' making
