First Statute of Repeal
| Act of Parliament | |
| Long title | An Acte for the Repeale of certayne Statutes made in the time of the Reigne of Kinge Edwarde the Syxthe. |
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| Citation | 1 Mar. Sess. 2. c. 2 |
| Territorial extent | England and Wales |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 5 December 1553 |
| Commencement | 24 October 1553 |
| Repealed | 7 July 1604 |
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| Amended by | Act of Uniformity 1558 |
| Repealed by | Continuance, etc. of Laws Act 1603 |
| Relates to | Second Statute of Repeal |
Status: Repealed | |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
The First Statute of Repeal was an act of the Parliament of England (1 Mar. Sess. 2. c. 2), passed in 1553 in the first Parliament of Mary I's reign, that nullified all religious legislation passed under the previous monarch, the boy-king Edward VI, and the de facto rulers of that time, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, and John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland.