cap, 19.
*** Collier, vol.ii.p.

69, 70.
But the most important law passed this session was that which regulated the succession to the crown: the marriage of the king with Catharine was declared unlawful, void, and of no effect: the primate's sentence annulling it was ratified: and the marriage with Queen Anne was established and confirmed.

The crown was appointed to descend to the issue of this marriage, and failing them, to the king's heirs forever.
An oath likewise was enjoined to be taken in favor of this order of succession, under the penalty of imprisonment during the king's pleasure, and forfeiture of goods and chattels.

And all slander against the king, queen, or their issue, was subjected to the penalty of misprision of treason.

After these compliances, the parliament was prorogued; and those acts, so contemptuous towards the pope, and so destructive of his authority, were passed at the very time that Clement pronounced his hasty sentence against the king.