An act for the establishment of the king's succession.... Your said most humble and obedient subjects, the nobles and  commons of this realm ... , do ... most humbly beseech your highness ... that it may be enacted ... that the marriage heretofore solemnized between your highness and the lady Katherine, being before lawful wife to Prince Arthur your elder brother, which by him was carnally known (as doth duly appear by sufficient proof in a lawful process had and made before Thomas, by the sufferance of God now archbishop of Canterbury and metropolitan and primate of all this realm), shall be by authority of this present parliament definitively, clearly, and absolutely declared, deemed, and adjudged to be against the laws of Almighty God, and also accepted, reputed, and taken of no value nor effect, but utterly void and annulled ...; and that the lawful matrimony had and solemnized between your highness and your most dear and entirely beloved wife, Queen Anne, shall be established and taken for undoubtful, true, sincere, and perfect ever hereafter....

    ANDalso be it enacted by authority aforesaid that all the issue had and procreate, or hereafter to be had and procreate,
between your highness and your said most dearly and entirely beloved wife Queen Anne shall be your lawful children, and be
inheritable and inherit, according to the course of inheritance and laws of this realm, the imperial crown of the same, with all
dignities, honours, pre-eminences, prerogatives, authorities, and jurisdictions to the same annexed or belonging, in as large and
ample manner as your highness to this present time hath the same as king of this realm....[7]

    AND be it further enacted by authority aforesaid that ... proclamations shall be made in all shires within this realm of the tenor
and contents of this act. And if any person or persons ... , subject or resident within this realm, or elsewhere within any the
king's dominions ... , by writing or imprinting or by any exterior act or deed maliciously procure or do, or cause to be procured
or done, any thing or things to the peril of your most royal person, or maliciously give occasion by writing, print, deed, or act
whereby your highness might be disturbed or interrupted of the crown of this realm, or by writing, print, deed, or act procure or
do, or cause to be procured or done, any thing or things to the prejudice, slander, disturbance, or derogation of the said lawful
matrimony solemnized between your majesty and the said Queen Anne, or to the peril, slander, or disherison of any the issues
and heirs of your highness being limited by this act to inherit and to be inheritable to the crown of this realm in such form as is
aforesaid — whereby any such issues or heirs of your highness might be destroyed, disturbed, or interrupted in body or title of
inheritance to the crown of this realm as to them is limited in this act in form above rehearsed — that then every such person
and persons, of what estate, degree, or condition they be of, subject or resident within this realm, and their aiders, counsellors,
maintainers, and abettors, and every of them, for every such offence shall be adjudged high traitors, and every offence shall be
adjudged high treason, and the offender and their aiders [etc.] ... , being lawfully convict of such offence by presentment,
verdict, confession, or process according to the laws and customs of this realm, shall suffer pains of death as in cases of high
treason....

    AND be it further enacted by authority aforesaid that, if any person or persons ... , by any words without writing, or any exterior deed or act, maliciously and obstinately publish, divulge, or utter any thing or things to the peril of your highness, or to the slander or prejudice of the said matrimony solemnized between your highness and the said Queen Anne, or to the slander or
disherison of the issue and heirs of your body begotten and to be gotten of the said Queen Anne, or any other your lawful heirs
which shall be inheritable to the crown of this realm, as is afore limited by this act, that then every such offence shall be taken
and adjudged for misprision of treason....