None were to be accused for words, but within a month after they were spoken.

By these repeals several of the most rigorous laws that ever had passed in England were annulled; and some dawn, both of civil and religious liberty, began to appear to the people.

Heresy, however, was still a capital crime by the common law, and was subjected to the penalty of burning.

Only there remained no precise standard by which that crime could be defined or determined; a circumstance which might either be advantageous or hurtful to public security, according to the disposition of the judges.
A repeal also passed of that law, the destruction of all laws, by which the king's proclamation was made of equal force with a statute.[***] That other law, likewise, was mitigated, by which the king was empowered to annul every statute passed before the four-and-twentieth year of his age: he could prevent their future execution; but could not recall any past effects which had ensued from them.[****] * Rymer, vol.xv.p.

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** 1 Edward VI.c.