Editing Titulus Regius (section)

==Repeal==
{{Infobox UK legislation
| short_title           = ''{{lang|la|Titulus Regius}}''
| type                  = Act
| parliament            = Parliament of England
| long_title            = Titulus Regis.
| year                  = 1485
| citation              = [[1 Hen. 7]] (part preceding c. 1)
| territorial_extent    = {{ubli|[[England and Wales]]|[[Ireland]]}}
| royal_assent          = 7 November 1485
| commencement          = 7 November 1485{{efn|Start of session.}}
| repeal_date           = 30 July 1948
| replaces              = ''{{lang|la|Titulus Regius}}''
| repealing_legislation = [[Statute Law Revision Act 1948]]
| related_legislation   = 
| status                = Repealed
| original_text         = https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000017915526&seq=523
}}
After Richard was [[Battle of Bosworth Field|killed in battle]], the act was repealed by the first parliament of the new king, [[Henry VII of England|Henry VII]]. The repeal was important because the new King and his supporters viewed Richard III's rule as a usurpation and also because Henry VII's prospective wife, [[Elizabeth of York]], whom he had pledged to marry if he gained the throne, was the eldest daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville and the Act had made her illegitimate.

Henry also ordered his subjects to destroy all copies of it and all related documents without reading them. His orders were carried out so well that only one copy of the law has ever been found. That copy was transcribed by a monastic chronicler into the ''[[Croyland Chronicle]]'', where it was discovered by Sir [[George Buck]]{{citation needed|date=January 2023}} more than a century later during the reign of [[James VI and I|James I]].

The repealing act was passed in the first Parliament of Henry VII, stating that the original ''Titulus Regius'' was
<blockquote>void, adnulled, repelled, irrite [invalidated], and of noe force ne effecte<ref>{{cite web|title=Rotuli Parliamentorum A.D. 1485 1 Henry VII|url=http://partyparcel.co.uk/information/price-guarantee.html#annullment|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161022212606if_/http://partyparcel.co.uk/information/price-guarantee.html|archive-date=2016-10-22|url-status=dead}}</ref></blockquote> and that the original be destroyed, and that any copies should be either destroyed or returned to Parliament on pain of fine and imprisonment.

A law report from his reign stated:
<blockquote>that the said Bill, Act and Record, be annulled and utterly destroyed, and that it be ordained by the same Authority, that the same Act and Record be taken out of the Roll of Parliament, and be cancelled and brent ['burned'], and be put in perpetual oblivion.<ref>[http://www.bu.edu/lawyearbooks/pages/full-size/11/11050.jpeg Year Book 1 Henry VII, Hil., plea 1]</ref></blockquote>

Henry almost succeeded in suppressing the ''Titulus Regius''.<ref>Bryce, Tracy. [http://home.cogeco.ca/~richardiii/Titulus%20Regius.htm "Titulus Regius: The Title of the King"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130901003910/http://home.cogeco.ca/~richardiii/Titulus%20Regius.htm |date=2013-09-01 }}, Richard III Society of Canada, accessed 31 October 2014</ref> The 100-year gap during which ''{{lang|la|Titulus Regius}}'' was [[censorship|censored]] coincided with the ruling period of the [[Tudor dynasty]]. It was known that Richard had claimed that a marriage pre-contract invalidated Edward's sons' right to the throne, but it was not known who Edward's supposed "real" wife was. [[Thomas More]] assumed that the act referred to Edward's longtime mistress, [[Elizabeth Lucy]], a view that was repeated until Buck discovered the original document.

Edward IV's first son, though ''Titulus Regius'' annulled his reign, is still counted as [[Edward V of England|Edward V]] to emphasise{{citation needed|date=January 2023}} that Richard III was a usurper. Thus, Henry VII's grandson was numbered [[Edward VI of England|Edward VI]].