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The Ecclesiastical Appeals Act 1533, cited as 24 Hen. 8. c. 12, was an Act of the Parliament of England also known as the Statute in Restraint of Appeals, the Act of Appeals, and the Act in Restraint of Appeals. It forbade all appeals to the Pope in Rome on religious or other matters, making King Henry VIII the final legal authority in England, Wales, and other English possessions.
Thomas Cromwell drafted the Ecclesiastical Appeals Act 1533 on behalf of King Henry VIII. Parliament passed the act in the first week of April 1533.
Parliament passed the Ecclesiastical Appeals Act 1533 in the first week of April 1533. Many historians treat it as the key legal foundation of the English Reformation.
The act claimed England was an Empire and the English crown an Imperial Crown to justify barring appeals to the Pope and making Henry VIII the final legal authority. Henry's historians supported the claim by tracing the crown's lineage back to Brutus and the fall of Troy.
Refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII's new authority under these acts counted as high treason, a charge that could lead to trial and execution. Thomas More was tried and executed after refusing to accept the new order.
The Ecclesiastical Appeals Act 1533 was fully repealed in stages between 1950 and 1969. The Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969 removed whatever of the act still remained in force.