The Second Statute of Repeal, an
act of the
Parliament of England
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(1 & 2 Ph. & M. c. 8) passed in the Parliament of
Queen Mary I and
King Philip in 1555, followed the
First Statute of Repeal of 1553. The first statute had abolished all religious legislation passed under
Edward VI and the second statute built on it by abolishing all religious legislation passed against the papacy from 1529 (the fall of
Cardinal
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Thomas Wolsey,
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's reign. It did this while allowing Mary to keep the title of Supreme Head of the Church of England, a title which had been given to the monarch of England by Henry VIII's Act of Supremacy, passed in 1534.Elizabeth I
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's Act of Uniformity 1558.
See also
* English Reformation
The English Reformation took place in 16th-century England when the Church of England broke away from the authority of the pope and the Catholic Church. These events were part of the wider European Protestant Reformation, a religious and poli ...
* Revival of the Heresy Acts
References
{{UK legislation
External links
Apparent partial text of the Second Statute of Repeal
1555 in law
1555 in England
Acts of the Parliament of England (1485–1603)
Counter-Reformation