The Second Statute of Repeal ( 1 & 2 Ph. & M. c. 8) or the See of Rome Act 1554, was an act of the

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passed in the Parliament of Queen Mary I and King Philip in 1555, followed the First Statute of Repeal ( 1 Mar. Sess. 2. c. 2) of 1553. The first statute had abolished all religious legislation passed under

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and the second statute built on it by abolishing all religious legislation passed against the papacy from 1529 (the fall of

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's reign. It was supported by the landed classes as it allowed them to keep the monastic land which they had acquired after the dissolution of the monasteries.

Provisions

Repealed enactments

Section 3 of the act repealed 6 enactments, listed in that section, namely: Section 4 of the act repealed 10 enactments, listed in that section, namely: Section 5 of the act repealed so much of the Succession to the Crown Act 1543 ( 35 Hen. 8. c. 1) as "toucheth the Oath against Supremacy, and all Oaths thereupon had made and given". Section 6 of the act repealed the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Act 1545 ( 37 Hen. 8. c. 17). Section 7 of the act repealed sections 5 and 6 of the Treason Act 1547 ( 1 Edw. 6. c. 12). Section 8 of the act repealed all statutes since the twentieth year of the reign of

against the Pope's supremacy.

Legacy

The statutes of repeal were eventually nullified by

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's Act of Uniformity 1558 ( 1 Eliz. 1. c. 2). The whole statute was repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1863 ( 26 & 27 Vict. c. 125).

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