Heresy Act 1382
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Status: Repealed |
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The Heresy Act 1382 (
Act of the Parliament of England
. The Act stated that the Chancellor should issue commissions for the arrest of heretical preachers by the authority of certificates from the bishops.
The Act was repealed in a later Parliament of the same year as the knights of the shires claimed it had not passed the House of Commons.[1]
Notes
- ^ Dudley Julius Medley, A Student's Manual of English Constitutional History. Sixth Edition (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1925), p. 601.
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