1. c. 1) was an act of the Parliament of England during the English Reformation.

[1] The act made it high treason to persuade English subjects to withdraw their allegiance to the Queen, or from the Church of England to Rome, or to promise obedience to a foreign authority.

The act also increased the fine for absenteeism from church to £20 a month or imprisonment until they conformed.

Finally, the act fined and imprisoned those who celebrated the mass or attended a mass.

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