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  "title": "Ecclesiastical Licences Act 1533",
  "short_title": "Ecclesiastical Licences Act 1533",
  "long_title": "An Acte for the exonaracion frome exaccions payde to the See of Rome.",
  "citation": "25 Hen. 8 c. 21",
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      "heading": "Licences, the Tax whereon at Rome exceeded £4. shall be confirmed under the Great Seal, and enrolled in Chancery. Licences of less Tax may be granted by the Archbishop: All such Licences shall be valid; Children procreated after Marriages so licenced shall be legitimate, &c.",
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      "heading": "For moderating the Charges of such Dispensations, &c. Two Books shall be made of the Costs of all Licences, &c. and approved by the Lord Chancellor, the Archbishops, &c.",
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