| He had already moved against the clergy with accusations of praemunire and in 1532 forbade the payment of Annates or first fruits to Rome. |
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| The law of praemunire dates from another century. No one who is alive now quite knows what it means. |
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| A penalty of praemunire involved imprisonment for an indefinite period, ending only with death or the King's pardon. |
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| Having brought down his Chancellor, Cardinal Wolsey, Henry VIII finally resolved to charge the whole English clergy with praemunire to secure their agreement to his annulment. |
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| Once the bishops had acknowledged their collective guilt under praemunire and requested royal pardon, the king demanded that they accept his supreme authority over the Church. |
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| This change in the power of the papacy in England is demonstrated by the statutes of Praemunire. |
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| Papal relations and reform continue the diplomatic story, especially regarding the investiture controversy in the context of Provisors and Praemunire statutes. |
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