An act was passed against levying the annates or first-fruits,[****] being a year's rent of all the bishoprics that fell vacant; a tax which was imposed by the court of Rome for granting bulls to the new prelates, and which was found to amount to considerable sums.
* Antiq.Brit.Eccles.p.325.

Burnet, vol.i.p.

106.
** Holingshed, p.

923.
*** Hall's Chronicle.

Holingshed, p.923.Baker, p.