# The 1533 Act in Restraint of Appeals forbids ecclesiastical appeals to Rome as a completed statute Date: 1533 ## The fact Later official statute heritage prints 24 Hen. VIII c. 12, the statute that cut appeals to Rome and declared the realm an empire sufficient unto itself. Cranmer’s later sentence on the Aragon marriage used this legal climate. Parliament and king share the text. It is one event. ## Context This is not the 1534 Supremacy title. It is the jurisdictional cut. Catholic litigants lost a supra-national appeal. Complex, not a unique modern court-packing series. [Henry VIII](/people/henry-viii)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death. Reign 1509–1547. Statutes are parliamentary instruments with royal assent: Cromwell, bishops, judges, and unnamed officers share the file. Later legislation.gov.uk and TNA pages are carriers, not autographs. Complex contribution is required. Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file. ## Evidence and sources legislation.gov.uk and UK Parliament independently describe the Restraint of Appeals. Official or archival record: legislation.gov.uk — later official statute heritage of the 1530s (https://www.legislation.gov.uk/; The National Archives / legislation.gov.uk). ## Significance It is not automatically a fairer local court. ## What is established and what is not Established: 1533 statute as later official text. Not established: unique case-outcome statistics from this chapter alone. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Henry VIII. They are not a public rating. Henry VIII did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Do not twin with the Act of Supremacy. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Henry VIII. ## People - Henry VIII: https://factrail.ai/people/henry-viii ## Drivers - Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion ## Sources - https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/private-lives/religion/collections/common-prayer/act-of-supremacy/ - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/h8-restraint-appeals-1533