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Act of Supremacy.

Hist. A statute that named the English sovereign as supreme head of the Church of England (26 Hen. 8, ch. 1). 0 The Act was passed in 1534 during Henry VIII's reign and confirmed in 1559 (1 Eliz., ch. 1) to counteract pro-Catholic legislation enacted during the reign of Mary Tudor.