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Abolition of High Commission Court Act 1640

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The Abolition of High Commission Court Act 1640 (16 Cha. 1, c. 11) was an Act of Parliament passed by the Long Parliament. It abolished the Court of High Commission and repealed the clause in the Act of Supremacy 1558 that gave the Court legal authority.[1]

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  1. ^ Mark A. Thomson, A Constitutional History of England. 1642 to 1801 (London: Methuen, 1938), p. 136.