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A31458 The laws of Q. Elizabeth, K. James, and K. Charles the First concerning Jesuites, seminary priests, recusants, &c., and concerning the oaths of supremacy and allegiance, explained by divers judgments and resolutions of the reverend judges : together with other observations upon the same laws : to which is added the Statute XXV Car. II. cap. 2 for preventing dangers which may happen from popish recusants : and an alphabetical table to the whole / by William Cawley of the Inner Temple, Esq. Cawley, William, of the Inner Temple. 1680 (1680) Wing C1651; ESTC R5101 281,468 316

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commence take sue and prosecute their said Appeal from the said pretenced Sentence and for the reversing of the said pretenced Sentence within this Realm in such like manner and form as was used to be pursued or might have béen pursued within this Realm at any time since the xxiv year of the Reign of the said late King Henry the Eighth upon Sentences given in the Court or Courts of any Archbishop within this Realm And that such Appeal as so hereafter shall be taken or pursued by the said Richard Chetwood and Agnes or either of them and the Sentence that herein or thereupon shall hereafter be given shall be judged to be good and effectual in the Law to all intents and purposes any Law Custom Vsage Canon Constitution or any other matter or cause to the contrary notwithstanding An Appeal between Richard Harcourt and Anthony Fydell Provided also and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That where there is the like Appeal now depending in the said Court of Rome betweén one Richard Harcourt Merchant of the Staple and Elizabeth Harcourt otherwise called Elizabeth Robins of the one party and Anthony Fydell Merchant Stranger on the other party that the said Robert Elizabeth and Anthony and every of them shall and may for the prosecuting and trying of their said Appeal have and enjoy the like remedy benefit and advantage in like manner and form as the said Richard and Agnes or any of them hath may or ought to have and enjoy this Act or any thing therein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Stat. i Eliz. cap. ii An Act for the Vniformity of Common Prayer and Service in the Church and the Administration of the Sacraments WHere at the death of our late Soveraign Lord King Edward the Sixth Stat. Sect. 1. there remained one uniform Order of Common Service and Prayer and of the Administration of Sacraments Rites and Ceremonies in the Church of England which was set forth in one Book Intituled The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies in the Church of England Authorized by Act of Parliament holden in the Fifth and Sixth years of our said late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Sixth Intituled An Act for the Vniformity of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments the which was repealed and taken away by Act of Parliament in the First year of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lady Quéen Mary to the great decay of the due honour of God and discomfort to the Professors of the Truth of Christ's Religion Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament That the said Estatute of Repeal A repeal of the Statute of 1 M. 2. And the Book of Common Prayer shall be in force and every thing therein contained only concerning the said Book and the Service Administration of the Sacraments Rites and Ceremonies contained or appointed in or by the said Book shall be void and of none effect from and after the Feast of the Nativity of Saint John Baptist next coming And that the said Book with the Order of Service and of the Administration of Sacraments Rites and Ceremonies with the alteration and additions therein added and appointed by this Estatute shall stand and be from and after the said Feast of the Nativity of Saint John Baptist in full force and effect according to the tenor and effect of this Estatute Any thing in the aforesaid Estatute of Repeal to the contrary notwithstanding Stat. Sect. 2. The Book of Common Prayer shall be used And further Be it Enacted by the Queens Highness with the assent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That all and singular Ministers in any Cathedral or Parish Church or other place within this Realm of England Wales and the Marches of the same or other the Quéens Dominions shall from and after the Feast of the Nativity of Saint John Baptist next coming be bounden to say and use the Mattens Evensong Celebration of the Lords Supper and Administration of each of the Sacraments and all the Common and open Prayer The alteration of the Book set forth 5 6 Ed. 6. in such Order and Form as is mentioned in the said Book so Authorized by Parliament in the said Fifth and Sixth years of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth with one alteration or addition of certain Lessons to be used on every Sunday in the year and the Form of the Letany altered and corrected and two sentences only added in the delivery of the Sacrament to the Communicants and none other or otherwise The forfeiture of those which use any other Service then the Book of Common Prayer And that if any manner of Parson Vicar or other whatsoever Minister that ought or should sing or say Common Prayer mentioned in the said Book or Minister the Sacraments from and after the Feast of the Nativity of Saint John Baptist next coming refuse to use the said Common Prayers or to Administer the Sacraments in such Cathedral or Parish Church or other places as he should use to Minister the same in such Order and Form as they be mentioned and set forth in the said Book or shall wilfully or obstinately standing in the same use any other Rite Ceremony Order Form or Manner of celebrating the Lords Supper openly or privily or Mattens Evensong Administration of the Sacraments or other open Prayers then is mentioned and set forth in the said Book open Prayer in and throughout this Act is meant that Prayer which is for others to come unto or hear either in common Churches The Penalty for depraving the Book of Common Prayer or private Chappels or Oratories commonly called the Service of the Church or shall Preach Declare or Speak any thing in the Derogation or Depraving of the said Book or any thing therein contained or of any part thereof and shall be thereof lawfully convicted according to the Laws of this Realm by Verdict of twelve Men or by his own Confession or by the notorious Evidence of the Fact shall loose and forfeit to the Queens Highness her Heirs and Successors for his first offence the profit of all his Spiritual Benefices or Promotions coming or arising in one whole year next after his conviction And also that the person so convicted shall for the same Offence suffer Imprisonment for the space of Six months without Bail or Mainprize That ought or should sing or say Common Prayer c. What Minister is here meant Although the first part of this Clause viz. All and singular Ministers in any Cathedral or Parish Church or other place seems to intend a local Minister only and not one who is neither Parson Vicar or Stipendiary Chaplain yet the next words If any Parson Vicar or other Minister that ought to say Common Prayer or minister the Sacraments c. clearly comprehend all lawful
their Iurisdictions and Authority and to punish the same by admonition excommunication sequestration or deprivation and other censures and process in like form as heretofore hath béen used in like Cases by the Quéens Ecclesiastical Laws Provided always and be it enacted None shall be punished twice for the same Offence That whatsoever persons offending in the premisses shall for their offences first receive punishment of the Ordinary having a Testimonial thereof under the said Ordinaries Seal shall not for the same Offence eftsoons be convicted before the Iustices And likewise receiving for the said first Offence punishment by the Iustices shall not for the same Offence eftsoons receive punishment of the Ordinary Any thing contained in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding This Clause being in the affirmative doth not abrogate the Jurisdiction Ecclesiastical Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction not abrogated which was in the Ecclesiastical Judge before the making of the Statute for that no Negative words are here added as that he should proceed no otherwise or in no other manner or form than this Statute directs And therefore if any Parson Vicar c. deprave or observe not the Book of Common Prayer although this Act inflicts only the forfeiture of a years value and six months Imprisonment for the first Offence yet the Ecclesiastical Judge may for the first Offence deprive him notwithstanding this Act as he might have done if no form of punishment had been here appointed And the said Book being enjoined by Authority the Offence of depraving or non-observing it is punishable by the Ecclesiastical Judge according to the Ecclsiastical Law without the further aid of any Temporal Law then the commanding it to be observed Co. 5.5 6. Cawdries Case And in such Case the Sentence of Deprivation given by the Ecclesiastical Judge though it exceed the punishment inflicted by the Temporal Law is not to be questioned by the Temporal Judges but they ought to give Faith and Credit to it For cuilibet in sua arte perito est credendum Cawdries Case fol. 7. Co. 4.29 Bunting and Heppingwells Case Provided always and be it enacted Stat. Sect. 13. Ornaments of the Church and Ministers That such Ornaments of the Church and of the Ministers thereof shall be retained and be in use as was in this Church of England by Authority of Parliament in the second year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth until other Order shall be therein taken by the Authority of the Quéens Majesty with the advice of her Commissioners appointed and authorized under the Great Seal of England for Causes Ecclesiastical or of the Metropolitan of this Realm And also That if there shall happen any Contempt or Irreverence to be used in the Ceremonies or Rites of the Church by the mis-using of the Orders appointed in this Book the Queéns Majesty may by the like advice of the said Commissioners or Metropolitan ordain and publish such further Ceremonies or Rites as may be most for the advancement of Gods Glory the Edifying of his Church and the due Reverence of Christs holy Mysteries and Sacraments All Laws and Ordinances made for other Service shall be void And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Laws Statutes and Ordinances wherein or whereby any other Service Administration of Sacraments or Common Prayer is limited established or set forth to be vsed within this Realm or any other the Queéns Dominions or Countries shall from henceforth be utterly void and of none effect Stat. v Eliz. cap. i. An Act for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Royal Power over all States and Subjects within her Dominions FOR preservation of the Queéns most Excellent Highness her Heirs and Successors Stat. and the Dignity of Sect. 1 the Imperial Crown of this Realm of England And for the avoiding both such hurts perils dishonors and inconveniencies as have before time befallen as well to the Quéens Majesties noble Progenitors Kings of this Realm as for the whole Estate thereof by means of the Iurisdiction and Power of the Sée of Rome unjustly Claimed and Vsurped within this Realm and the Dominions thereof and also of the dangers by the fauters of the said usurped Power at this time grown to marvelous outrage and licentious boldness and now requiring more sharp restraint and correction of Laws than hitherto in the time of the Queéns Majesties most mild and merciful Reign have béen had used or established Be it therefore Enacted Ordained and Established Stat. by the Quéen our Soveraign Lady and the Lords Spiritual and Sect. 2 Temporal The Penalty for maintaining the Authority of the Bishop or See of Rome and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by Authority of the same That if any Person or Persons dwelling inhabiting or resiant within this Realm or within any other the Quéens Dominions Seigniories or Countries or in the Marches of the same or elsewhere within or under her Obeysance and Power of what Estate Dignity Preheminence Order or Condition soever he or they be after the first day of April which shall be in the year of our Lord God One thousand five hundred sixty thrée shall by Writing Typhering Printing Preaching or Teaching Déed or Act advisedly and wittingly hold or stand with to extol set forth maintain or defend the Authority Iurisdiction or Power of the Bishop of Rome or of his Sée heretofore claimed used or usurped within this Realm or in any Dominion or Country being of within or under the Queéns Power or Obeisance or by any Spéech open Déed or Act advisedly and wittingly attribute any such manner of Iurisdiction Authority or Preheminence to the said Sée of Rome or to any Bishop of the same Sée for the time being within this Realm or in any the Quéens Dominions or Countries that then every such Person or Persons so doing or offending their Abbettors Procurers and Counsellors and also their aiders assistants and comforters upon purpose and to the intent to set forth further and extol the said usurped Power Authority or Iurisdiction of any of the said Bishop or Bishops of Rome and every of them being thereof lawfully Indicted or Presented within one year next after any such Offences by him or them Committed and being lawfully Convicted or Attainted at any time after according to the Laws of this Realm for every such Default and Offence shall incur into the dangers penalties pains and forfeitures Ordained and Provided by the Statute of Provision and Praemunire made in the Sixtéenth year of the Reign of King Richard the Second Hold or stand with c. or attribute The Printers of any Book which attributes to the Pope or See of Rome any such Authority or Jurisdiction within this Realm Printing bringing in offering and delivering of Books c. and the utterers thereof in most Cases are within the danger of this Law and if any man bring over such Books Written beyond the Seas knowing the
not extend to compell any Temporal person of or above the degrée of a Baron of this Realm to take or pronounce the Oath abovesaid nor to incur any penalty limited by this Act for not taking or refusing the same Any thing in this Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Where he ought to take it This Act. Although by this Act no Temporal person of or above the degree of a Baron is compellable to take this Oath yet if he be made a Justice of Peace he ought to take it by force of the Statute of 1 Eliz. cap. 1. Jones 152 153. Earl of Lincolns Case Stat. 1 Eliz. 1. A Bishop must take it Temporal Person By these words and the Preamble Forasmuch as c. Archbishops and Bishops although their possessions be Temporalties are excluded out of this Proviso and therefore are to take the Oath For every person who is of the degree of a Baron is not excused as Wingate tit Crown numb 29. mistakes but only the Temporal Lords of Parliament Stat. Sect. 12. Charitable giving Alms to Offenders shall be no cause of forfeiture Provided and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That charitable giving of reasonable Alms to any of the Offender or Offenders above specified without fraud or covin shall not be taken or interpreted to be any such abettment procuring counselling aiding assisting or comforting as thereby the giver of such Alms shall incur any pain penalty or forfeiture appointed in this Act. Peers offending shall be tried by their Peers Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament That if any Peér of this Realm shall hereafter offend contrary to this Act or any Branch or Article thereof that in that and all such Case and Cases they shall be tried by their Péers in such manner and form as in other Cases of Treasons they have used to be tried and by none other means Provided also further and be it Enacted Stat. Sect. 13. Who only shall be compelled to take the Oath upon the second tender That no person shall be compelled by vertue of this Act to take the Oath above-mentioned at or upon the second time of offering the same according to the form appointed by this Statute except the same person hath beén is or shall be an Ecclesiastical person that had hath or shall have in the time of one of the Riegns of the Queéns Majesties most Noble Father Brother or Sister or in the time of the Reign of the Queéns Majesty her Heirs or Successors Charge Cure or Office in the Church Or such person or persons as had hath or hereafter shall have any Office or Ministry in any Ecclesiastical Court of this Realm under any Archbishop or Bishop in any the times or Reigns aforesaid Or such person or persons as shall wilfully refuse to observe the Orders and Rites for Divine Service that be authorized to be used and observed in the Church of England after that he or they shall be publickly by the Ordinary or some of his Officers for Ecclesiastical Causes admonished to kéep and observe the same Or such as shall openly and advisedly deprave by words writings or any other open fact any of the Rites and Ceremonies at any time used and authorized to be used in the Church of England Or that shall say or hear the private Mass prohibited by the Laws of this Realm and that all such persons shall be compellable to take the Oath upon the second tender or offer of the same and incur the Penalties for not taking of the said Oath and none other Charge Cure or Office in the Church What Clergy-men are punishable upon the second tender and refusal So that every Clergy-man or Person in Orders is not within the danger of this Law upon the second tender and refusal of the Oath as Wing tit Crown n. 30. mistakes For every Priest or Minister is Clericus Dyer 3 Eliz. 203. and yet shall not incur the penalty of High Treason upon the second refusal unless he be a local Minister or have some Charge Cure or Office in the Church By the Ordinary Ordinary what Ordinary in the Common Law is properly taken for the Bishop of the Diocess but yet usually in the Common Law and in Statutes for every Commissary or Official of the Bishop or other Judge that hath Ordinary Jurisdiction within his limits in Causes Ecclesiastical Stat. W. 2. cap. 19. Stat. 31 E. 3. cap. 11. Termes de la Ley 212. Ordinary 8 H. 6. 3. Co. 1. Inst 344. Or hear the private Mass Hearing Mass If a man once in his life time heareth private Mass it seems he is within this qualification and incurs High Treason upon the second refusal of the Oath and not only if he used to hear it as Wingate tit Crown numb 30. misrecites the Statute Stat. Sect. 14. It shall not be lawful to slay any one attainted in a Praemunire And forasmuch as it is doubtful whether by the Laws of this Realm there be any punishment for such as kill or slay any person or persons attainted in or upon a Praemunire Be it therefore Enacted by Authority aforesaid That it shall not be lawful to any person or persons to slay or kill any person or persons in any manner attainted or hereafter to be attainted of in or upon any Praemunire by pretence reason or authority of any Iudgment given or hereafter to be given in or upon the same or by pretence reason or force of any word or words thing or things contained or specified in any Statute or Law of Provision and Praemunire or in any of them Any Law or Statute or Opinion or Exposition of any Law or Statute to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Punishments inflicted by former Laws Saving always the due execution of all and every person and persons attainted or to be attainted for any Offence whereupon Iudgment of death now is or ought to be or hereafter may lawfully be given by reason of this Statute or otherwise And saving always all and every such pains of death or other hurt or punishment as heretofore might without danger of Law be done upon any person or persons that shall send or bring into this Realm or any other the Queéns Dominions or within the same shall execute any Summons Sentence Excommunication or other Process against any person or persons from the Bishop of Rome for the time being or by or from the See of Rome or the Authority or Iurisdiction of the same See The Judgment in a Praemunire The Judgment in a Praemunire is to be out of the Kings Protection his Lands Tenements Goods and Chattels to be forfeited to the King and that his body shall remain in Prison at the Kings pleasure Co. 1. Inst 129 130. Co. 3. Inst. 218. Rastal Entr. 466. Judgment But his entailed Lands he shall forfeit only during his Life For this Forfeiture must