Statute of Provisors curbs papal taxation
September 1351
The English parliament forbade the pope from naming foreign clergy to English benefices, calling it a drain of English wealth to Avignon. The statute was rarely enforced strictly but it set a precedent: the national church belonged to the king, not the pope, in a way the Reformation would inherit.
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