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By the King, a proclamation
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England and Wales. Sovereign (1694-1702 : William III); William, III, King of England, 1650-1702.
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By the King A PROCLAMATION WILLIAM R. WHereas by an Act made the last Session of this present Parliament Intituled An Act for the further Preventing the Growth of Popery reciting That there has of late beén a much greater Resort into this Kingdom than formerly of Popish Bishops Priests and Jesuits who openly and in insolent manner do Affront the Laws and daily endeavour to Pervert Our Natural-born Subjects which has beén occasioned by Neglect of the due Execution of the Laws already in Force For Preventing the further Growth of Popery and of such Treasonable and Execrable Designs and Conspiracies against Our Person and Government and the Established Religion It is Enacted That from and after the Five and twentieth Day of March One thousand seven hundred all and every Person and Persons who shall Apprehend and Take one or more Popish Bishop Priest or Jesuit and Prosecute him or them so Taken until he or they be Convicted of Saying Mass or of Exercising any other Part of the Office or Function of a Popish Bishop or Priest within these Realms shall Receive of the Sheriff or Sheriffs of the Country where such Conviction shall be made without Paying any Feé for the same for every such Offender so Convicted the Sum of One hundred Pounds within Four Months after such Conviction and Demand thereof made in such manner as in the said Act is Directed And it is thereby Enacted That if any Popish Bishop Priest or Jesuit whatsoever shall say Mass or Exercise any other Part of the Office or Function of Popish Bishop or Priest within these Realms or the Dominions thereunto belonging or if any Papist or other Person making Profession of the Popish Religion shall keep School or take upon themselves the Education or Government or Boarding of Youth in any Place within this Realm or the Dominions thereto belonging and being thereof lawfully Convicted shall on such Conviction be Adjudged to Perpetual Imprisonment An it is thereby further Enacted That from and after the Nine and twentieth Day of September in the Year of Our Lord One thousand seven hundred if any Person Educated in the Popish Religion or Professing the same shall not within Six Months after he or she shall attain the Age of Eighteén Years Take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and also Subscribe the Declaration set down and expressed in an Act of Parliament made in the Thirtieth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second Intituled An Act for the more Effectual Preserving the Kings Person and Government by Disabling Papists from Sitting in either House of Parliament to be by him or her Made Repeated and Subscrilbed in the Courts of Chancery or Kings Bench or Quarter Sessions of the Country where such Person shall Reside every such Person shall in respect of him or her self only and not to or in respect of any of his or her Heirs or Posterity be Disabled and made Incapable to Inherit or Take by Descent Devise or Limitation in Possession Reversion or Remainder any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments within this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed and that during the Life of such Person or until he or she do Take the said Oaths and Make Repeat and Subscribe the said Declaration as aforesaid the next of his or her Kindred which shall be a Protestant shall have and enjoy the said Lands Tenements and Hereditaments without being Accountable for the Profits by him or her Received During such Enjoyment thereof but shall not commit wilful Waste on the Premisses on Penalty of Treble Damages And that from and after the Tenth Day of April One thousand seven hundred every Papist or Person making Profession of the Popish Religion shall be Disabled and is thereby made Incapable to Purchase either in his or her own Name or in the Name of any other Person or Persons to his or her Use or in Trust for him or her any Manors Lands Profits out of Lands Tenements Terms or Hereditaments within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed And that all Estates Terms and any other Interests or Profits whatsoever out of Lands from and after the said Tenth Day of April to be made suffered or done to or for the Use or Behoof of any such Person or Persons or upon any Trust or Confidence mediately or immediately to or for the Benefit or Relief of any such Person or Persons shall be utterly Void and of none Effect And it is thereby Provided That nothing in the said Act contained shall be Construed to Extend to any Popish Priest for saying Mass or Officiating as a Priest within the Dwelling-house of any Foreign Minister Residing here so as such Preist be not one of Our Natural-born Subjects nor Naturalized within any of Our Dominions and so as the Name of such Priest and Place of his Birth and the Foreign Minister to whom he shall belong be Entred and Registred in the Office of Our Principal Secretary of State And it is thereby further Enacted reciting That by an Act made in the Third Year of King James the First Intituled An Act to Prevent and Avoid Dangers which may Grow by Popish Recusants whosoever shall be Convicted of Sending or causing to be Sent any Child or any other Person under their Government unto Parts beyond the Seas out of the Kings Obedience to the Intent that such Child or Person so Sent should be Educated in the Romish Religion contrary to the said Act is to Forfeit One hundred Pounds One Half to the Kings Majesty and the other Half to him that shall Sue for the same That for the greater Encouragement and Reward of those who shall Discover such Offenders That the said Sum of One hundred Pounds shall be to the sole Vse and Benefit of him or her who shall Discover or Convict any Person Offending to be Recovered as by the said Recited Act is Enacted And to the end that the Protestant Children of Popish Parents may not in the Life time of such their Parents for want of fitting Maintenance be Necessitated in Complyance with their Parents to Imbrace the Popish Religion contrary to their own Inclinations 'T is thereby also further Enacted That from and after the Five and Twentieth Day of March One thousand seven hundred if any such Parent in order to the Compelling such his or her Protestant Child to Change his or her Religion shall refuse to Allow such Child a fitting Maintenance suitable to the Degree and Abilities of such Parent and to the Age and Education of such Child Then upon Complaint thereof made to Our Chancellor Keeper of Our Great Seal or Commissioners of Our Great Seal for the time being It shall be Lawful for Our said Chancellor Keéper or Commissioners to make such Order therein as shall be Agreeable to the Intent of the said Act. And whereas We have thought it necessary that none of Our Subjects may be Ignorant of the Contents of the said Act and in order to put the said Act in due Execution That the said should be Published in the most Solemn manner We therefore with the Advice of Our Privy Council have thought fit to Issue this Our Royal Proclamation hereby Declaring That all Popish Bishops Priests and Jesuits or other Person or Persons who shall be found Offending against the said Act shall be Prosecuted with the utmost Seventy according to Law And We do hereby strictly Charge and Command all Our Loving Subjects to use their utmost Diligence in putting the said Act in Execution by Discovering Taking and Apprehending all Popish Bishops Priests and Jesuits and other Persons Offending against the said Act to the end they may Receive the just Punishment of the Laws for their Offences Given at Our Court at Hampton Court the Two and twentieth Day of April 1700. In the Twelfth Year of Our Reign GOD SAVE THE KING LONDON Printed by Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb deceas'd Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty MDCC