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A45992 An act to prevent Protestants inter-marrying with papists Ireland. 1697 (1697) Wing I326; ESTC R475473 4,134 10

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AN ACT To Prevent PROTESTANTS Inter-Marrying WITH PAPISTS DVBLIN Printed by Andrew Crook Printer to the King 's Most Excellent Majesty on Cork-Hill near Copper-Alley MDCXCVII An ACT to Prevent Protestants Inter-Marrying with Papists CAAP. XXVIII WHEREAS many Protestant Maidens and Women as well such as be Heirs Apparent to their Ancestors as others having left unto them by their Father or other Ancestor or Friends Manours Lands Tenements and Hereditaments or other great Substances in Goods or Chattels Real or Personal for their Advancement in Marriage or having had considerable Estates for Life by Dower or Iointure or having had the Tuition or Guardianship of Protestant Children Intituled to such Estates or Interests as aforesaid by Flattery and other Crafty Insinuations of Popish Persons have beén Seduced and Prevailed upon to Contract Matrimony with and take to Husband Papists or Popish Persons which Marriages have not only Tended to the Ruine and Destruction of such Estates and Interests and to the great Loss and Damage of many Protestants Persons to whom the same might Descend or Come but as well to the Currupting and Perverting such Protestants so Marrying and the Protestant Persons in their Tuition and Guardianship as aforesaid that they forsake their Religion and become Papists to the great Dishonour of Almighty God the great Prejudice of the Protestant Interest and the heavy Sorrow and Displeasure of all their Protestant Friends For remedy whereof Be it Enacted by the King 's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That if any Protestant Maid or Woman Vnmarryed being Heir Apparent to her Ancestor or having a Sole or Ioynt Estate or Interest in Feé-Simple or in Feé-Tail or being Seized in Feé-Simple or in Coparcenary or in Common or being Seized of an Estate for Life or Lives by way of Iointure Dower or otherwise or being Possessed of or Intituled unto any Beneficial Interest or Term for Years of or in any Manours Lands Tenements Rents and Hereditaments in Possession Revertion or Remainder or being Possessed of or Intituled to any Personal Estate either in Money Stock Plate Iewels or other Goods and Chattels in Law or Equity to the Value of Five hundred Pounds Sterling or more shall at any time after the First Day of January next Marry or take to Husband any Person whatsoever without having first obtained a Certificate in Writing under the Hand of the Minister of the Parish Bishop of the Diocess and some Iustice of the Peace Living near the Place or any two of them where such Person shall be Resident at the time of such Marriage that he is a known Protestant which Certificate shall also be Attested under the Hands of Two or more Credible Witnesses and shall be Granted without Feé or Reward that then and from the time of such Marriage such Protestant person so Marrying and the person she shall so Marry shall be for ever afterwards Disabled and Rendred Incapable of Having Holding or Enjoying all or any of the aforesaid Estates or Interests which such Protestant Person so Marrying shall may or ought to have at the time of such Marriage and that by such Marriage as aforesaid all and every of the said Estates and Interests belonging to such Protestant person or persons so Marrying as aforesaid shall go to and be Vested in and in Law Deémed and Esteémed to be the Right Title Estate and Interest of the next Protestant of the Kin to whom such Estate or Interest would Descend or come to by Law were such Protestant Maid or Woman and all other Intervening Popish Heirs Executors or Administrators really Dead and Intestate at the time of such Marriage and that from the time of such Marriage such next Protestant of the Kin as aforesaid to whom all or any of the said Estates or Interests shall come by such Marriage as aforesaid shall Have Hold Possess and Enjoy all and every such Estates and Interests in as Large Ample and Beneficial Manner to all intents and purposes as such Protestant Maid or Woman might Have Held Possessed or Enjoyed the same in Case this Act had never beén made and that at any time after such Protestant Maid or Woman shall Marry without such Certificate as aforesaid it shall and may be Lawful to and for such Protestant person or persons to whom all or any of the said Estates or Interests shall come by such Marriage as aforesaid by any Action at Law or other Legal means whatsoever to Sue for and Recover all or any of the said Estates or Interests as if such Protestant person or persons so Marrying as aforesaid and all other Intervening Popish Heirs Executors or Administrators were really Dead and Intestate as aforesaid and as if such person or persons who shall so Sue for and Recover all or any of such Estates or Interests were Rightfully and Legally Intituled thereto as Heir Executor or Administrator to such Protestant Maid or Woman Marrying as aforesaid such Maid or Woman being by such Marriage to be Deémed and Esteémed Dead in Law to the aforesaid Intents Constructions and Purposes And if any such Protestant Maid or Woman as aforesaid shall at any time after the First Day of January One thousand Six hundred Ninety seaven Marry any such person without such Certificate as aforesaid that then and from thenceforth such Protestant persons and such Husband as she shall so Marry as aforesaid shall for ever be Incapable of being Heir Executor Administrator or Guardian of or to any Protestant or Protestants whatsoever and in case any Protestant Woman as aforesaid is now Married to a Popish person and hath now by Law a Title or is chosen or appointed to be Guardian to any Protestant person or persons having all or any of the said Estates or Interests aforesaid that in such Case from and after the said First Day of January such Guardian shall be utterly Vncapable of being any longer so Guardian or to Receive any the Rents Issues or Profits of the said Estates or Interests of such person or persons in Guardianship as aforesaid and the Right and Title of such Guardianship shall devolve on and come to the next Protestant or Protestants of the Kin to whom the Estate of such person or persons in Guardianship as aforesaid cannot descend unless such person shall be Vncapable in Law or shall be Adjudged unfit for such Guardianship by the Court of Chancery in this Kingdom In either of which Cases such Right of Guardianship shall go to the next Protestant of Kin who shall be Capable and Fit for the Discharge of such Trust who shall take into his her or their Care and Tuition such person and persons in Guardianship as aforesaid and Receive the Rents Issues and Profits of such Estates and Interests belonging to such person or persons so in Guardianship And that in Case any Protestant Minister