Abbots, mitred:division of opinion on the annates Bill, 187.
In England the collection and payment of annates to the pope was prohibited in 1531 by statute.
He still wished if possible to win him to his side, and before the end of 1532 he obtained from Parliament an Act of annates.
The Pope would recover his annates, his Peter's pence, and his indulgence market.
By reason of his translation to the see of Lisieux he owed Rome annates to the amount of 400 golden florins.
The Commons were not more enthusiastic about the bill restraining the (p. 290) payment of annates to the Court at Rome.
Was he not, moreover, withholding his assent from the Act of annates, which would deprive the Pope of large revenues?
They gave him a right to all the annates and tithes of benefices which had formerly been paid to the court of Rome.
The abbeys had been the chief sufferers from annates, and had complained of the exaction for centuries.
For the next year the annates were paid in full, as usual, to give time for his Holiness to consider himself.
