Bulls, etc., from Rome Act 1571

An Act against the bringing in and putting in execution of bulls writings or instruments and other superstitious things from the See of Rome, also known as Bulls, etc., from Rome Act 1571, (13 Eliz. 1, c. 2) was an Act of the Parliament of England during the English Reformation. 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.

Bulls, etc., from Rome Act 1571
Long titleAn Act against the bringing in and putting in execution of bulls writings or instruments and other superstitious things from the See of Rome
Citation13 Eliz.1, c. 2
Status: Repealed

Breaching the Act ceased to be a crime in 1846, but remained unlawful until the Act was repealed.[2]

In 1911, Pope Pius X excommunicated Arnold Mathew from the Catholic Church. The Times reported on this excommunication and included an English language translation of the Latin language document which described Mathew, among other things, as a "pseudo-bishop".[3][4] Mathew's attorney argued, in the 1913 trial Mathew v. "The Times" Publishing Co., Ltd., that publication of the excommunication by The Times in English was high treason under this law. 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."[5][6]

Notes
  1. Medley, Dudley J. (1925). A student's manual of English constitutional history (6th ed.). New York: Macmillan. p. 638. OCLC 612680148. Retrieved 2014-10-24.
  2. Craies, William F. (1911). "Treason" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 223–228.
  3. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a work now in the public domain: "The excommunication of Englishmen". The Times (39520). London. 28 February 1911. p. 6. ISSN 0140-0460.
  4. Pope Pius X (4 March 1911). "Motu Proprio". The Tablet. London. p. 25. ISSN 0039-8837. Archived from the original on 22 August 2013. Retrieved 22 August 2013. English translation of Pope Pius X (11 February 1911). "Sacerdotes Arnoldus Harris Mathew, Herbertus Ignatius Beale et Arthurus Guilelmus Howarth nominatim excommunicantur" (PDF). Acta Apostolicae Sedis (motu proprio type apostolic letter) (in Latin). Rome: Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis (published 1911-02-15). 3 (2): 53–54. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 May 2013. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
  5. Cowper, Francis H. (1932-05-07). "Catholic authority and English law". The Tablet. London. p. 6. ISSN 0039-8837. Archived from the original on 2014-04-26. Retrieved 2014-03-22.
  6. Mathew v. "The Times" Publishing Co., Ltd., 29 T.L.R. 471 (KB 1913).
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