For medieval statutes, etc. that are not considered to be acts of Parliament, see the list of English statutes.
The number shown after each act's title is its chapter number. Acts are cited using this number, preceded by the year(s) of the reign during which the relevant parliamentary session was held; thus the Union with Ireland Act 1800 is cited as "39 & 40 Geo. 3 c. 67", meaning the 67th act passed during the session that started in the 39th year of the reign of George III and which finished in the 40th year of that reign. Note that the modern convention is to use Arabic numerals in citations (thus "41 Geo. 3" rather than "41 Geo. III"). Acts of the last session of the Parliament of Great Britain and the first session of the Parliament of the United Kingdom are both cited as "41 Geo. 3".
Acts passed by the Parliament of England did not have a short title; however, some of these acts have subsequently been given a short title by acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (such as the Short Titles Act 1896).
Acts passed by the Parliament of England were deemed to have come into effect on the first day of the session in which they were passed. Because of this, the years given in the list below may in fact be the year before a particular Act was passed.
(Mint) c. 1 The King's council may assign money to be coined in as many places as they will. — repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1863
(Purveyance) c. 2 All the statutes of purveyors shall be proclaimed in every county four times in the year. — repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1863
(Irishmen) c. 3 What sort of Irishmen only may come to dwell in England. — repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1863
(Mint) c. 4 The master of the mint shall send to the mint to be coined all the gold and silver that shall come to his hands by exchange. — repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1863
c. 5 A certain allowance made to those which were retained to serve King Hen. V. in his wars. Provision for the redemption of the jewels mortgages by King. Hen. V. — repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1863
(Exchanges) c. 6 The stat. of 9. Hen. V. c. 9.[lower-alpha 1] touching security of exchanges to be made by merchants of the court of Rome, revived, and continued till the next parliament. — repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1863
(Staple) c. 4 All merchanises of the staple passing out of England, Wales, and Ireland, shall be carried to Calais, so long as the staple is at Calais. — repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1863
(Exportation of Wools) c. 5 The penalty if any carry wools or fells not customed out of the realm to any place, saving to Calais. — repealed by 3 Geo. 4. c. 41
(Exportation of Gold or Silver) c. 6 For what causes only gold or silver may be carried out of the realm. — repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1863
(Tanners) c. 7 The penalty of a cordwainer using the mystery of a tanner. — repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1863
(Irishmen) c. 8 Irishmen resorting into the realm, shall be put in surety for their good abearing. — repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1863
(Embroidery) c. 10 A penalty on deceitful workers of gold and silver embroidery. — repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1863
(Certain Outlawries) c. 11 Concerning the reversal of outlawries pronounced against persons whilst abroad in the King's service. — repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1863
(River Thames) c. 12 The justices shall inquire into and remove certain nuisances on the Thames. — repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1863
(Patent Officers in Courts) c. 13 What manner of inferior officers shall be appointed in the King's courts. — repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1863
(Labourers) c. 18 Justices may punish servants, masons, carpenters, &c. for taking unreasonable wages. — repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1863
(Fish) c. 19 No man shall fasten nets to any thing over rivers. — repealed by Salmon Fishery Act 1861
(Real Actions) c. 20 Persons in the reversion may sue for the right to estates, notwithstanding any defaults committed by the former possessors. — repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1863
The 4th Parliament of King Henry VI (the 'Parliament of Bats'), which met at Leicester from 18 February 1426 until 1 June 1426.
(Sheriffs) c. 1 Every sheriff shall return such writs as be directed to him at such days as they be returnable, and shall warn those jurors which be impannelled. — repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1863
(Continuance of Statutes) c. 2 A rehearsal and confirmation of the statute of 9 Hen. V. c. 3.[lower-alpha 1] touching protections granted to those who were in the wars in Normandy or France. — repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1863
(Writs) c. 4 The writs, suits, and processes now depending of certain that were late made knights, shall not abate for that cause. — repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1863
(Assizes) c. 2 How long time the copies of panels in assise shall be delivered to the parties before the sessions to the justices. — repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1863
(Wages of Artificers) c. 3 The justices of peace, &c. shall assign the wages of artificers and workmen by proclamation; and the penalty of those that take more. — repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1863
(Liveries) c. 4 None shall buy nor wear a livery to have maintenance in any quarrel. — repealed for England and Wales by 3 Cha. 1. c. 5, s. 8, and for Ireland by the Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Malicious Indictments, etc.) c. 10 Process awarded against those which dwelling in foreign counties be indicted or appealed. — repealed for England and Wales by the Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1938, ss. 20(3), 20(5), sch. 4
(Protections) c. 13 There shall not be excepted in the protections of those that shall go with the King into France, assise of Novel Disseisin. — repealed for England and Wales by the Statute Law Revision Act 1863, and for Ireland by the Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(The staple) c. 17 Wools, fells, &c. shipped out of England, Wales, or Ireland, for any place but Calais, shall be forfeited by the double, except by merchants of Genoa, Venice, &c. — repealed by Repeal of Acts Concerning Importation Act 1822
(Exportation) c. 19 If a mariner shall receive into his ship any merchandises, or carry them to any other place than to the staple at Calais, the goods and ship shall be forfeited. — repealed by Repeal of Acts Concerning Importation Act 1822
(Exportation) c. 21 A repeal of all licences granted to men of Newcastle and Berwick, to carry merchandises to other places than to Calais. The penalty for carrying of merchandises of the staple into Scotland. — repealed by Repeal of Acts Concerning Importation Act 1822
(Wool) c. 22 What is requisite to be done in winding and packing of wool. None shall force, clack, or beard any wool. — repealed by Repeal of Obsolete Statutes Act 1856
(Robberies on the Severn) c. 27 A remedy for the inhabitants of Tewksbury in the county of Gloucester, against the commonality of the forest of Dean, &c. to prevent future robberies and injuries in the navigation on the Severn. — repealed for England and Wales by the Statute Law Revision Act 1863, and for Ireland by the Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Ruffhead c. 28)[lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 3]There shall be a bridge made over the water of Burford, and another over the water of Culhamford, in the county of Oxford.
↑ "There is no c. 28 in the Statutes of the Realm; see note there, vol. 2 p. 261"[9]
↑ "In the Old Printed Translations of the Statutes a Chapter is inserted, numbered XXVIII, respecting the Roads and Bridges at Burford and Culhamford in Oxfordshire; No such Chapter is inserted in the Old Printed French Copies; It appears to be in Effect the same as Chapter XI of the Statute 9 Hen. V. Stat. 2 which see, and the Note there.[10]
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(Adjournment of Assizes) c. 1 All assises and Nisi prius shall be adjourned during this parliament, until certain days. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Trade with Aliens) c. 2 English merchants may sell their merchandise to aliens, giving them only six months credit, notwithstanding the statute of 8 Hen. 6. c. 24.[lower-alpha 1] — repealed by 3 Geo. 4. c. 41
(Proceedings against Owen Glendour made valid (saving for his heirs)) c. 3 — repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1948
(Indemptitate nominis by Executors) c. 4 An indentitate nominis maintainable by executors, &c. — repealed by Civil Procedure Acts Repeal Act 1879
(Free Passage on the Severn) c. 5 All men shall have free passage in Severn with goods, chattels, &c. — repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1948
(Weights (Dorchester)) c. 6 The burgesses of Dorchester shall have their weighing by twelve miles about, &c. — repealed by Weights and Measures Act 1824
River Lee Navigation Act 1430 or River Lee (Conservancy Commission) Act 1430[12]c. 9 The chancellor of England may grant his commission to certain persons to scour, and amend the river Ley in the counties of Essex, Hertford, and Middlesex. — repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1948
(Attorneys) c. 10 A rehearsal and confirmation of the statute of 3 Hen. V. cap. 2.[lower-alpha 2] authorizing certain abbots and other religious persons to make their attornies. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Northampton, highways and streets) Rot. Parl. vol. iv p. 373[lower-alpha 3]An Act for Paving and Repairing certain Highways and Streets within the Town of Northampton. — repealed by Northampton Act 1988 (c. xxix)
(Letters of Request) c. 3 A letter of request shall be granted by the keeper of the privy seal to any of the King's subjects, from whom goods shall be taken by the subjects of Denmark. — repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1863
(Appearance of Plaintiffs) c. 4 The penalty of him that maketh a false entry, that the plaintiff doth offer himself in person, where his doth not. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Exportation) c. 7 All wools and woolfells that shall be carried to any other place than to Calais, shall be forfeited to the King and the finder. — repealed by 3 Geo. 4. c. 41
Stews in Southwark Act 1433[14] c. 1 They that dwell at the Stews in Southwark shall not be impanelled in Juries, nor keep any Inn or Tavern but there. — repealed by 19 & 20 Vict. c. 64
(Real Actions) c. 5 The remedy where a tenant granteth over his estate, taketh the profits, and committeth waste. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Continuance of Indictments) c. 6 No suit pending before any justices, &c. shall be discontinued by a new commission. — repealed by Justices of the Peace Act 1968
(Sheriff of Herefordshire) c. 7 The statute of 9 H. VI. c. 7.[lower-alpha 1] which restrainth the sheriff of the county of Hereford to take money by extortion, &c. revived for three years. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
Parliament Act 1433 c. 11 The punishment of those that make assault upon any that come to the parliament. — repealed by 10 Geo. 4. c. 34
(Wax Chandlers) c. 12 What wax-chandlers shall take for their work of wax. — repealed by 21 Jas. 1. c. 28
(Staple) c. 13 A confirmation for three years of the stat. of 8 Hen. VI. c. 18.[lower-alpha 2] that wool, &c. brought to Calais shall be sold for ready money. — repealed by 3 Geo. 4. c. 41
(Exportation) c. 14 It shall be felony to ship or carry any merchandises of the staple in creeks, during three years.
(Customs) c. 15 A customer shall discharge the merchant that hath paid his custom. — repealed by 3 Geo. 4. c. 41
(Judgment in Treason and Felony) c. 1 Justices of Nisi prius may give judgement of a man attainted or acquitted of felony. — repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1950
(Staple) c. 2 Wools and fells shall not be exported but to Calais. Special exceptions in favour of the King, and his council, and the merchants of Venice, Genoa, &c.
(Cumberland Assizes) c. 3 Where the justices of assise of Cumberland shall hold their sessions. — repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1948
(Middlesex Sessions) c. 4 The justices of the peace of Middlesex may keep their sessions but twice in the year. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Exportation) c. 5 Merchandises of the staple shipped in creeks shall be forfeited to the King, &c.
(Alien Merchants) c. 6 None shall disturb an alien that bringeth in victuals to sell in gross, or by retail.
Alien Goods Act 1435[15] c. 7 Merchandises taken in Ships of the King's Enemies, though belonging to Foreigners in Amity with the King, shall not be restored.
(Exportation of Corn) c. 2 Corn being of small price, viz. wheat at six shillings and eight-pence, and barley at three shillings the quarter, may be carried forth of the realm without licence. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Sub-poenas) c. 4 None shall sue a Subpœna until he find surety to satisfy the defendant his damages, if he do not verify his bill. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Guilds and Fraternities) c. 6 A restraint of unlawful orders made by masters of guilds, fraternities, and other companies. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Attorneys) c. 7 All persons religious and secular may make their general attornies to sue or plead for them in every hundred and wapentake. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Attaints) c. 2 They which have gavelkind lands to the yearly value of twenty pounds, may be returned in attaints. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Exportation) c. 3 Butter and cheese may be transported without licence.
Alien Merchants Act 1439[16] c. 4 No Merchant Alien shall sell any Merchandises in England to another Merchant Alien. Mayors, &c. of Cities and Towns to execute this Act.
(Taxation) c. 5 None appointed to be a collector of a fifteen in a city, shall be also collector in the same county, except he hath lands, &c. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
Crown Grants Act 1439[17] c. 6 No Lands shall be granted by Letters Patents, until the King's Title be found by Inquisition.
(Penalty on Escheators) c. 7 In what time an escheator shall return an office found before him.
(Appearance of Plaintiffs) c. 9 The warrant of attorney shall be recorded in the same term that the exigent is awarded. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Commissions of Sewers) c. 10 Commissions of sewers shall be awarded where need shall require, during ten years. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Indictments, etc.) c. 12 Appeals or indictments of felony committed, in a place where there is none such. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Sheriffs) c. 14 It shall be felony to carry wool or woolfels to any other place than to Calais, saving such which pass the streights of Marrock. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Exportation) c. 15 The penalty of taking bribe in the arraying of a jury.
Soldiers Act 1439[18] c. 18 How much a captain shall forfeit that doth detain any part of his soldiers wages.
(Soldiers) c. 19 The penalty of a soldier not going with, or departing from, his captain without licence. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
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c. 5 No customer, &c. shall have a ship of his own, use merchandise, keep a wharf or inn, or be a factor. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
c. 7 If any carry merchandises into Wales, and after bring them into England not customed, he shall forfeit them. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
c. 10 Four wardens of the worsted weavers of Norwich appointed yearly to inspect and regulate the worsted of that city, and two in Norfolk. The length and breadth of all sorts of worsteds made in Norwich and Norfolk assigned. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
c. 12 A reformation of the partition money arising by the sale of wools and woolfels by the mayor and constable of Calais, ordered for seven years. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Purveyance) c. 1 In what case the King's purveyors, who are by the last precedent chapter to be termed buyers, may be resisted. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Exportation) c. 2 Whoever shall pack or ship thrums or threads to pass beyond the seas, during the three years next coming, shall forfeit the same, or the value.
(Worsteds) c. 3 Four wardens of worsted weavers shall be chosen yearly during the three years next coming, within the city of Norwich, and other four within the county of Norfolk, which shall set down orders for the true making of worsteds within Norwich and Norfolk, and Suffolk. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Welshmen) c. 4 Welchmen indicted of treason or felony, that do repair into Herefordshire, shall be apprehended and imprisoned, or else pursued by hue and cry, and a forfeiture of those which do not pursue them.
(Exportation) c. 5 A rehearsal of the statute of 15 Hen. 6. c. 2.[lower-alpha 1] touching licence to transport corn, when wheat doth not exceed vi. s. viii. d. the quarter, and barley iii. s. iv. d. and the same statute made perpertual. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Sheriffs of Northumberland) c. 6 The gathering of head-pence by the sheriff of Northumberland shall cease. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Sheriffs (Tenure of Office)) c. 7 No man shall be sheriff, under-sheriff, &c. above a year.
(Commissions of Sewers) c. 8 The Chancellor of England may grant commissions of sewers during fifteen years. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Foreign Pleas) c. 11 The trial shall be made when the tenant or defendant, after an issue joined, pleadeth a foreign plea, where the same writ is brought, and by the jury so returned. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Labourers) c. 12 A servant in husbandry purporting to depart from his master must give him half a year's warning, or else shall serve him the year following. The several wages of servants in husbandry, and of labourers, with meat and drink, and without. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
Parliamentary Elections Act 1444[22] c. 14 Who shall be Knights for the Parliament. The Manner of their Election. The Remedy where one is chosen and another returned.
(Gauge Penny) c. 15 The duty of a gauger, and when he shall have his gauge penny.
(Escheators) c. 16 When and where an escheator shall take his inquest of office, and his fee.
(Wines) c. 17 No new impositions shall be laid upon them which buy wines in Gascony or Guyen, by the King's officers in those parts, upon pain of forfeiture of twenty pounds, and treble damages. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Wales) All statutes made against Welchmen confirmed. All grants of markets and fairs to any Welchmen shall be void. The King's villains in North Wales shall be constrained to such labour as their have done before. — repealed by 21 Jas. 1. c. 28
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(Importation) c. 1 If woolen cloths manufactured in England shall be prohibited in Brabant, Holland, and Zealand, then no merchandise growing or wrought there within the dominion of the duke of Burgoin shall come into England upon pain of forfeiture. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Exportation) c. 2 No licence shall be available to carry wools, fells, or tin to any place out of the realm, but to Calais. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Exportation (No. 2)) c. 3 Merchants aliens shall bestow all their money upon other merchandises, and carry forth no gold or silver, upon pain of forfeiture thereof. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
c. 6 The King's pardon granted to all priests, as well secular as religious, of several offences, forfeitures, &c. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Importation) c. 1 A rehearsal and confirmation for seven years of the statute of 27 Hen. VI. cap. 1.[lower-alpha 1] prohibiting the merchandises of Holland, Zealand, and Brabant to be brought into this realm, until English cloth may be sold there. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Purveyance) c. 2 The penalty for taking any persons horses or cart without the delivery of the owner, or some officer, or for taking money to spare them. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Pardon) c. 3 The King's pardon to those that were sheriffs or clerks of the last year before, for occupying their places above one year, contrary to the statute of 23 Hen. VI. c. 8.[lower-alpha 2] — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Distress) c. 4 Felony for any Welsh or Lancashire man to take other men, their goods or chattels, under colour of distress, where they have no cause. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Customs) c. 5 The penalty of officers of the customs, which by colour of their offices shall distrain any man's ships or goods. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(York (exemption from municipal office)) c. 3 All letters patents granted to the citizens of York to exempt them from certain offices, shall be void. The penalty of citizen who shall purchase such exemption. — repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1948
(Writs) c. 2 The penalties for those who shall disobey the King's writes, &c. or not appear before his council when warned by proclamation. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Attachments) c. 3 Attachments in the east and west marches shall be made in Cumberland, Westmerland, Northumberland, and the town of Newcastle only. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
c. 7 Fees, wages, and rewards due to the King's officers, shall not be comprised within the statute of resumption made in the eighth and twentieth year of the King's reign. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
c. 8 A confirmation of a subsidy of wool, woolfels, and cloth transported, granted by a statute ordained 31 Hen. VI. not printed. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Embezzlement) c. 1 A remedy for executors against servants that embezzle their masters goods after his death.
(Repeal of 31 Hen. 6. c. 6, jurors) c. 2 Jurors in an indictment in the county palatine of Lancaster. Of a foreigner dwelling in another county.
(Exchequer) c. 3 A remedy for several extortions committed by the officers of the exchequer.
(Brewing) c. 4 No person brewing ale or beer in Kent to be sold, shall, during five years, make above a hundred quarters of malt to his own use.
Importation Act 1455 c. 5 No wrought silk belonging to the mystery of silkwomen shall be brought into this realm by the way of merchandise, during five years.
(Fountain Abbey) c. 6 Certain privileges granted to the abbot of Fountain in the county of York.
(Attorneys) c. 7 How many attornies may be in Norfolk, how many in Suffolk, and in Norwich.
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(Repeal of 38 Hen. 6) c. 1 The parliament holden at Coventry, 20 die Novembris, Anno 37 Hen. VI. repealed, and all acts, statutes, &c. made by authority of the same, reversed. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
(Livery of Women) c. 2 A woman at fourteen years of age at the death of her ancestor shall have livery of her land. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872
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