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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	case_n	court_n	judgement_n	1,563	5	5.9494	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82481	Anno Regni Caroli II Regis Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, vicesimo secundo. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the eighth day of May, Anno Dom. 1661. in the thirteenth year of the reign of ... Lord Charles ... And there continued by several prorogations to the 14th day of February 1670 ...; Act to prevent and suppress seditious conventicles	England and Wales.	1670 (1670)	Wing E1153AB; ESTC R21509	6,018	15

Offender so Convicted as aforesaid shall at any time again commit the like Offence or Offences contrary to this Act and be thereof Convicted in manner aforesaid then such Offender so Convicted of such like Offence or Offences shall for every such Offence incurre the Penalty of Fourty pounds to be levied and disposed as aforesaid And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every person who shall wittingly and willingly suffer any such Conventicle Meeting or unlawsul Assembly aforesaid to be held in his or her House Out-house Barn Yard or Backside and be Convicted thereof in manner aforesaid shall forfeit the Sum of Twenty pounds to be levied in manner aforesaid upon his or her Goods and Chattels or in case of his or her poverty or inability as aforesaid upon the Goods and Chattels of such persons who shall be Convicted in manner aforesaid of being present at the same Conventicle and the Money so levied to be disposed of in manner aforesaid Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person shall by any Clause of this Act be liable to pay above Ten pounds for any one Meeting in regard of the poverty of any other person or persons Provided also and be it further Enacted That in all Cases of this Act where the Penalty or Sum charged upon any Offender exceeds the Sum of Ten shillings and such Offender shall finde himself agrieved it shall and may be lawful for him within one Week after the said Penalty or Money charged shall be paid or levied to Appeal in writing from the person or persons Convicting to the Iudgment of the Iustices of the Peace in their next Quarter-Sessions to whom the Iustice or Iustices of Peace Chief Magistrate or Alderman that first convicted such Offender shall return the Money levied upon the Appellant and shall certifie under his and their Hands and Seals the Evidence upon which the Conviction past with the whole Record thereof and the said Appeal Whereupon such offender may Plead and make Defence and have his Tryal by a Iury thereupon And in case such Appellant shall not Prosecute with effect or if upon such Tryal he shall not be acquitted or Iudgment pass not for him upon his said Appeal the said Iustices at the Sessions shall give treble Costs against such Offender for his unjust Appeal And no other Court whatsoever shall intermeddle with any Cause or Causes of Appeal upon this Act but they shall be finally determined in the Quarter-Sessions onely Provided always and be it further Enacted That upon the delivery of such Appeal as aforesaid the person or persons Appellant shall enter before the person or persons convicting into a Recognizance to prosecute the said Appeal with effect Which said Recognizance the person or persons Convicting is hereby Impowred to take and required to certifie the same to the next Quarter-Sessions And in case no such Recognizance be entred into the said Appeal to be null and void Provided always That every such Appeal shall be left with the person or persons so convicting as aforesaid at the time of the making thereof And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Iustice Iustices of the Peace and Chief Magistrate respectively or the respective Constables Head-boroughs and Tything-men by Warrant from the said Iustice Iustices or Chief Magistrate respectively shall and may with what aid force and assistance they shall think fit for the better execution of this Act after refusal or denial to enter break open and enter into any house or other place where they shall be informed any such Conventicle as aforesaid is or shall be held as well within Liberties as without and take into their Custody the persons there unlawfully assembled to the intent they may be proceeded against according to this Act And that the Lieutenants or Deputy-Lieutenants or any Commissionated Officer of the Militia or other of His Majesties Forces with such Troops or Companies of Horse and Foot And also the Sheriffs and other Magistrates and Ministers of Iustice or any of them joyntly or severally within any the Counties or places within this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed with such other assistance as they shall think meét or can get in readiness with the soonest on Certificate made to them respectively under the Hand and Seal of any one Iustice of the Peace or Chief Magistrate of his particular Information or Knowledge of such unlawful Meéting or Conventicle held or to be held in their respective Counties or places And that he with such Assistance as he can get together is not able to suppress and dissolve the same shall and may and are hereby required and enjoyned to repair unto the place where they are so held or to be held and by the best means they can to dissolve dissipate or prevent all such unlawful Meetings and take into their Custody such and so many of the said persons so unlawfully assembled as they shall think fit to the intent they may be proceeded against according to this Act. Provided always That no Dwelling-house of any Peer of this Realm where he or his Wife shall be then resident shall be searched by vertue of this Act but by immediate Warrant from His Majesty under His Sign Manual or in the presence of the Lieutenant or one Deputy-Lieutenant or two Iustices of the Peace whereof one to be of the Quorum of the same County or Riding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Constable Head-borough Tything-man Church-warden or Overseer of the Poor who shall know or be credibly informed of any such Meetings or Conventicles held within his Precincts Parish or Limits and shall not give Information thereof to some Iustice of the Peace or the Chief Magistrate and endeavour the Conviction of the Parties according to his Duty but such Constable Headborough Tythingman Churchwarden Overseers of the Poor or any person lawfully called in aid of the Constable Headborough or Tythingman shall wilfully and wittingly omit the performance of his Duty in the Execution of this Act and be thereof Convicted in manner aforesaid he shall forfeit for every such Offence the sum of five pounds to be levied upon his goods and Chattels and disposed in manner aforesaid And that if any Iustice of the Peace or chief Magistrate shall wilfully and wittingly omit the performance of his Duty in the Execution of this Act he shall forfeit the sum of One hundred pounds the one Moity to the use of His Majesty the other Moity to the use of the Informer to be recovered by Action Suit Bill or Plaint in any of His Majesties Courts at Westminster wherein no Essoin Protection or Wager of Law shall lie And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any person be at any time Sued for putting in Execution any of the Powers contained in this Act otherwise then upon Appeal allowed by this Act