Sentence:  These penalties were first imposed by the stat. 16 Rich. II. c. 5 (commonly called the Statute of Præmunire); and it is by reference to that statute that all subsequent <WSD>præmunires</WSD> have been made punishable. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The offence in English law of bringing suit in or obeying a foreign (especially papal) court or authority, thus challenging the supremacy of the Crown. The offence was created by the (Statute of Praemunire) 1393 (16 Richard II, chapter 5), and abolished by the (Criminal Law Act 1967) (chapter 58).