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therefore all jurisdiction of foreign powers was denied.
[Sidenote: January 15, 1534] When, after a recess, Parliament met again there were forty vacancies to be filled in the Lower House, and this time care was taken that the new members should be well affected.

Scarcely a third of the spiritual lords assembled, though whether their absence was commanded, or their presence not required, by the king, is uncertain.

As, in earlier Parliaments, the spiritual peers had outnumbered the temporal, this was a matter of importance.