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First Succession Act

Act of the Parliament of England

Summary

Act of the Parliament of England

Field	Value
short_title	Succession to the Crown Act 1533
type	Act
parliament	Parliament of England
long_title	An Act declaring the Establishment of Succession of the King's most Royal Majesty in the Imperial Crown of this Realm.
year	1534
citation	25 Hen. 8. c. 22
territorial_extent	England and Wales
royal_assent	30 March 1534
commencement	15 January 1534
repeal_date	8 June 1536
related_legislation
repealing_legislation
status	Repealed
original_text	https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000017915533&view=1up&seq=527

The First Succession Act (25 Hen. 8. c. 22) of Henry VIII's reign was an act of the Parliament of England passed in March 1534. The act was formally titled the Succession to the Crown Act 1533, or the Act of Succession 1533; it is often dated as 1534, as it was passed in that calendar year. However, the legal calendar in use at that time dated the beginning of the year as March 25, and so considered the act as being in 1533.

Provisions

The act made Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII by Anne Boleyn, who had been born on 7 September 1533, the heir presumptive to the Crown by declaring Mary, daughter of Henry VIII by Catherine of Aragon, a bastard. The act also required all subjects, if commanded, to swear an oath to recognise the act as well as the king's supremacy. Under the Treasons Act 1534 (26 Hen. 8. c. 13) anyone who refused to take the oath was subject to a charge of treason.

The act was later altered by the Second Succession Act, which made Elizabeth illegitimate, and the Third Succession Act, which returned both Mary and Elizabeth to the line of succession.

Notes

Bibliography

Cannon, John Ashton. The Oxford Companion to British History. 1st ed. Oxford England: Oxford UP, 1997. Print.
Gardiner, Juliet, and Neil Wenborn. The Columbia Companion to British History. New York: Columbia UP, 1997. Print.
Haigh, Christopher. English Reformations: Religion, Politics, and Society under the Tudors. 1st ed. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993. Print.
Loades, David. Henry VIII Court, Church and Conflict. National Archives, 2007. Print.
Ridley, Jasper Godwin. Henry VIII. New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 1985. Print.
[Viorst, Milton. The Great Documents of Western Civilization. Philadelphia: Chilton, 1965. Print.

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