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Annates (/ ˈ æ n eɪ t s / or / ˈ æ n ə t s /; [1] Latin: annatae, from annus, "year") [2] were a payment from the recipient of an ecclesiastical benefice to the collating authorities.
c. 20), also known as the Act Concerning Ecclesiastical Appointments and Absolute Restraint of Annates, is an Act of the Parliament of England. This Act remains partly in force in England and Wales [3] at the end of 2010. [4] It was passed by the English Reformation Parliament in 1534.
The annates were, along with the supremacy over the church in England, reserved to the Crown, and the English crown now took all revenue charged for the appointment of bishops. The Act of First Fruits and Tenths transferred the taxes on ecclesiastical income from the pope to the Crown.
The English Reformation took place in 16th-century ... the Act in Conditional Restraint of Annates mandated the clergy ... contrary to the true meaning and doctrine ...
It is considered by many historians to be the key legal foundation of the English Reformation. The Act, drafted by Thomas Cromwell on behalf of King Henry VIII of England , forbade all appeals to the Pope in Rome on religious or other matters, making the King the final legal authority in all such matters in England , Wales , and other English ...
Clergy had to pay a portion of their first year's income (known as annates) [1] and a tenth of their revenue annually thereafter. Originally, the money was paid to the papacy , but Henry VIII 's 1534 statute diverted the money to the English Crown as part of his campaign to pressure the Pope into granting him an annulment of his marriage with ...
Before the Reformation, the lordship of the manor of Cheltenham had been held by the Abbess of Syon. It is plausible therefore that as both the pious payment of Peter's Pence and the secular manorial fees had once gone to the same institution, the former came over time to be regarded as part of the latter. [citation needed]
The Concordat confirmed the Apostolic Camera's right to collect annates, the first year's revenue from each benefice, [6] a right that when abused led to shuffling of prelates among dioceses. The fiction of elections to bishopric by canons and to abbacies by monks was discontinued.