Anno xxiii Henrici Octavi

the king our soueraigne lord Henry the eyght by the grace of God kynge of England and of Fraunce defender of the faythe and lorde of Ireland, at the sessions of his high Court of parliament after diuers prorogations, holden at Westminster the. XV. daye of Ianuary, in the. XXIII. yere of his most noble reigne to the honour of almighty God [et] holy churche, and for the common weale and profit of this his realme, by the assent of the lordes spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this present parliament assembled, and the auctoritie of the same, hath ordeined established and enacted certaine good statutes, lawes and ordynaunces in maner and fourme folowynge