673.
v* An act of parliament, 25th Henry VIII., cap.

19, allowed the convocation with the king's consent to make canons.

By the famous act of submission to that prince, the clergy bound themselves to enact no canons without the king's consent.

The parliament was never mentioned nor thought of.

Such pretensions as the commons advanced at present, would in any former age have been deemed strange usurpations.
But the present was no time for question or dispute.