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4 unusual facts about Act Concerning Peter's Pence and Dispensations


Act Concerning Peter's Pence and Dispensations

It is under this Act, that the Archbishop of Canterbury can award a Lambeth degree as an academic degree.

The words at the end of this section were repealed by section 4(a) of the Statute Law Revision Act 1948.

The fees which might have been charged for the dispensations were set and required the Royal Assent, confirmed by the Great Seal of the Realm, in matters for which the usual fee was over £4.

It was not the largest payment to Rome but it is argued by Stanford Lehmberg that it was deliberately mentioned in the Act because it was theoretically paid by laymen and thus might have seemed more intolerable than payments affecting clerics only.



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