Dissolution of Colleges Act 1545
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1545 c. 4 |
| Year | 1545 |
(37 Hen. 8) C A P. IV.
'IN their most humble wise shewn unto your Royal Majesty your loving Subjects, the Lords Spiritualand Temporal, and the Commons, of this present Parliament assembled, That where there have been divers Colleges, Free Chapels, Chantries, Hospitals, Fraternities, Brotherhoods, Guilds and stipendary Priests, having Perpetuity for ever within this your Realm ofEngland, Wales , and the Marches of the same, of which, some of them by the Licence of your gracious Highness, or of your noble Progenitors, and some of them by Feoffments and Wills thereupon declared, and some of them by other Devises, Conveyance and Assurance, have been incorporated, establshed, founded, erected, had or made by divers Names, Surnames, Degrees and Corporations, to have had a perpetual Continuance for ever; (2) sithence which Time divels and many of the Donors, Founders or Patrons, or such as pretend to be Donors, Founders or Patrons of the same Colleges, Free Chapels, Chantries, Hospitals, Fraternities, Brotherhoods, Guilds, and stipendary Priests, and divers other, of their Avaricious and Covetous Minds, and of their own Authority, without your gracious Licence, have of late entred into the Mansion Houses, Manors, Lands, Tenements and other Hereditaments, to the same Colleges, Free Chapels, Chantries, Hospitals, Fraternities, Brotherhoods, Guilds and stipendary Priests belonging and appertaining, and have expulsed the Priests, Wardens, Masters, Ministers, Rulers, Governors and Incumbents of the same, out and from the Possession thereof, and they, their Heirs and Assigns, do occupy and enjoy the said Mansion Houses, Manors, Lands, Tenements and other Hereditaments, and do receive, take and employ, and convert the Rents, Issues, Revenues and Profits of the same to their own proper Uses: (3) And some of the said Priests, Wardens, Masters, Ministers, Rulers, Governors and Incumbents of the Premisses, by Covin between them and the Patrons, Donors or Founders of the same, or of such as pretend to be Patrons, Donors or Founders of the same, or other, have also of their own Authority, without your Grace's Licence, bargained and sold all or Partof their Manors, Lands and Tenements annexed, united, pertaining or belonging to their said Colleges, Free Chapels, Chantries, Hospitals, and other the said Promotions; (4) and some of the said Priests, Wardens, Masters...
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