No mention, however, is made of the pope's authority, as any ground of the marriage.

All the statutes of King Edward with regard to religion were repealed by one vote.[v] The attainder of the duke of Norfolk was reversed; and this act of justice was more reasonable than the declaring of that attainder invalid without further authority.

Many clauses of the riot act, passed in the late reign, were revived: a step which eluded in a great measure the popular statute enacted at the first meeting of parliament.
* Fox, vol.iii.p.

19.
** Burnet, vol.ii.p.

252.
*** Mariae, sess.i.cap.1.By this repeal, though it was in general popular, the clause of 5 and 6 Edward VI.cap.