1. c. 2) was an Act of the Parliament of England during the English Reformation, with the long-title An Act against the bringing in and putting in execution of bulls writings or instruments and other superstitious things from the See of Rome.

The act punished with high treason those who published papal bulls and Roman Catholic priests and their converts.

[1] This Act was a response to Pope Pius V's Regnans in Excelsis.

[3] In 1911, Pope Pius X excommunicated Arnold Mathew from the Catholic Church.

The trial was, according to a 1932 article in The Tablet, the last time this principle was invoked and the judge, Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling, "held that it was not unlawful to publish a Papal Bull in a newspaper simply for the information of the public.