Excerpt from Observations on the Statutes of the Reformation Parliament: In the Reign of King Henry the Eighth The Act of the Reformation Parliament respecting the Royal Succession was passed in the twenty-fifth year of the reign (ch. XXII.) An auxiliary Act was passed in the next year of the reign for establishing the identity, in point of law, of the oath required by the previous Act with another oath differing from it in point of fact. The former Act, passed on the occasion of the King's marriage with Anne Boleyn, consists of the follow ing heads: (1) A Preamble, containing a detail of evils resulting from a disputed title to a throne; (2) an adjudication of the nullity of the King's marriage with Queen Catherine, and of the validity of that with Anne Boleyn (3) a Declaration of Probi bited degrees of marriage; (4) an entail of the Crown; (5) new treasons and misprisions of treason; (6) an oath for observing and fulfilling the contents of the Act; (7) the punishment of treason. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.