be a Popish Recusant convict at any time after his or her conviction shall exercise any publick Office or Charge in the Commonwealth but shall be utterly disabled to exercise the same by himself or by his Deputy except such Husband himself and his Children which shall be above the age of nine years abiding with him and his Servants in houshold shall once every month at the least not having any reasonable excuse to the contrary repair to some Church or Chappel usual for Divine Service and there hear Divine Service And the said Husband and such his Children and Servants as are of méet age receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper at such times as are limited by the Laws of this Realm and do bring up his said Children in true Religion This Clause extends not to all sorts of Recusants who are convicted or have Wives who are Recusants convicted as is mistaken in the late additions to Dalton cap. 81. tit Recusants Sect. 46. To whom this clause extends But at this day only to the Popish Recusant convicted or having a Wife who is a Popish Recusant convicted To whom not A Popish Recusant not convicted hath a Wife who is convicted of Recusancy but is no Popish Recusant The Husband is not disabled by this Statute to exercise any publick Office or Charge for that neither the Husband is a convicted Recusant nor the Wife a Popish Recusant A person who is convicted of Recusancy but is no Popish Recusant hath a Wife who is a Popish Recusant but not convicted The Husband is out of this Branch of the Statute for that neither the Husband is a Popish Recusant nor the Wife convicted Stat. Sect. 11. A Married Woman being a Popish Recusant And be it also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Married Woman being or that shall be a Popish Recusant convict her Husband not standing convicted of Popish Recusancy which shall not conform her self and remain conformed but shall forbear to repair to some Church or usual place of Common Prayer and there to hear Divine Service and Sermon if any then be and within the said year receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper according to the Laws of this Realm by the space of one whole year next before the death of her said Husband shall forfeit and loose to the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors the issues and profits of two parts of her Ioynture and two parts of her Dower in thrée parts to be divided during her life of or out of any the Lands Tenements or Hereditaments which are or were her said Husbands and also be disabled to be Executrix or Administratrix of her said Husband and to have or demand any part or portion of her said late Husbands Goods or Chattels by any Law custom or usage whatsoever The issues and profits of two parts of her Ioynture and two parts of her Dower A Woman may have Joynture and Dower both And not of two parts of her Joynture or Dower as Wingate tit Crown numb 134. For there are divers Cases where notwithstanding the Statute of 27 H. 8. cap. 10. the Wife shall have her Dower and Joynture both And forfeit two parts of both And if she offend against this branch she shall forfeit the profits of two parts of both And that not only where the Joynture made to her is not warranted by that Statute but in some Cases where the Joynture is pursuant and according to the Statute she shall have her Dower and Joynture both Of the first sort are these Where the Joynture is not warranted by Stat. 27 H. 8. 10. If an Estate be made of Lands to the Wife for the life of another Co. 4. 3. Vernons Case Or for a thousand years or for a thousand years if she live so long Co. 1. Inst 36. Or if a Rent be granted to the Wife for the life of another or for years or any other way not pursuant to that Statute Vide Anderson 1. 288. c. 296. Bickley's Case Anderson 2. 30 31. c. 20. Wentworths Case Or if an Estate be made to others in fee or for the Wives life upon Trust for her benefit Co. 1. Inst 36. Or if a man Covenant to stand seized to the use of himself in Tail the Remainder to the use of his Wife for life Pasch 16. Jac. B. R. Woods Case Or if the Husband make a Feoffment in see to the use of himself for life the remainder to another for life or years the remainder to the Wife for her life Co. 4. 2. 3. Hutton 51. Sherwells Case In all these Cases although the Lands or Rent were conveyed to the Wife for her Joynture yet the Estate not being within the Statute of 27 H. 8. her acceptance thereof shall not bar her Dower but she shall have such Joynture and her Dower also And the reason why in the two last Cases the Wife shall not be barred of her Dower although there be an Estate limited to her for her life is because the Estate is not in its first Creation appointed to take immediately after the death of the Husband And no matter which arises ex post facto can salve this or make it a Joynture within that Statute to bar her Dower And therefore if in the first of those two Cases the Husband Tenant in Tail dies without issue or if in the last Case he in the remainder die before the Husband or the term for years determines in the Husbands life time so that the Wife may enter presently after his death yet because the Estate to the Wife for her life was not originally limited to take immediately after his death it shall not bar her Dower For quod ab initio non valet in tractu temporis non convalescet Co. 4. 2 3. Hutton 51. And as in all the Cases before mentioned if the Estate were made for her Joynture the Wife shall have such Joynture and her Dower both so if she be an Offender within this branch of the Act and conform not within the year next before her Husbands death she shall forfeit the profits of two parts of both Of what Lands she shall not forfeit the profits But otherwise it is where an Estate is given or limited by the Husband to the Wife and it s neither expressed nor can be averred and proved to be given or limited for her Joynture or in recompence of her Dower And therefore if any of the Estates before mentioned which are not within the Statute of 27 H. 8. be granted or limited to the Wife by the Husband or any other Estate for her life or otherwise which would be a good Joynture within the said Statute if it were intended for a Joynture as if a man before or after Marriage Covenants to stand seized of Lands to the use of himself for life the Remainder to his Wife for her life and it is neither expressed in the Deed nor can be averred and
the arrearages of twenty pounds monthly before such seizure due or payable shall ensue or be continued against such Offender so long as the same person shall continue in coming to Divine Service according to the intent of the said Estatute It was resolved by all the Judges Mich. 37 38 Eliz. That if a man had been convicted according to this Statute by Proclamation upon default and afterwards conformed himself Where Conformity discharges the penalty he should be discharged of the penalty due upon his Conviction notwithstanding these words and full satisfaction of all the Arrearages And the reason of this given by Coke Chief Justice B. R. in Dr. Fosters Case is for that this Statute saith That such Conviction should be as sufficient as if there were a Verdict recorded but 't is only a Judgment which converts the penalty into a Debt and not a Verdict And here all penalties are discharged upon Conformity unless such as are converted into a Debt But otherwise it would have been if there had been a Judgment against the Recusant upon Trial or Confession on the Statute of 23 Eliz. cap. 1. Stat. 23 Eliz. 1. For then his Conformity would have come too late to have saved the penalty incurred by his Conviction For by the Judgment the penalty was converted into a Debt Rolles 1. 94. C. 41. Quaere tamen Whether these words here due and payable are to be understood due and payable upon a Judgment only However now by the Statute of 1 Jac. cap. 4. 1 Jac. 4. if the Recusant conform either before or after Judgment he shall be discharged of all penalties But the profits of the Recusants Lands taken before his Conformity shall never be restored Savile 130. C. 201. The profits not to be restored It hath been questioned upon this Statute Where the penalty is discharged upon the death of the Recusant where not if a Recusant convicted by Proclamation upon default had died before seizure of two parts of his Lands whether his Lands might have been seized after his death for the Arrearages of the 20 l. per month or if they were seized in his life time whether they should have been discharged after his death without payment of such Arrears And the Opinion of those who held that the seizure should neither ensue nor continue after his death but that the Arrears were discharged was principally grounded upon the aforesaid construction of this Statute viz. that due and payable extended only to Arrearages due and payable upon a Judgment and converted into a Debt But when the Recusant was convicted by Proclamation the penalty was never converted into a Debt and therefore when he died there were no Arrearages due in the sense of this Statute for the heir to pay And yet that by such Offender here is generally intended all Recusants convicted as well by Proclamation upon default as upon Judgment and the heirs of either should have had the benefit of this Proviso viz. That upon the death of the Ancestor no seizure should ensue or be continued only in the Case of a Judgment the Arrears were to have been paid But there seems now to be no further need of this Question for the Statute of 1 Jac. cap. 4. Stat. 1 Jac. 4. meets with both these Cases For if there be no seizure of the Recusants Lands in his life time the discharge of the heir will depend upon his Conformity and if there were a seizure the two parts shall continue in his Majesties possession till the Arrears are paid and satisfied Intailed Lands when discharged and when not But this is not intended of intailed Lands For without any aid of this Proviso if a Recusant Tenant in Tail be convicted by Proclamation upon default and dies neither any seizure for the Arrears of the 20 l. per month shall ensue after his death nor if they were seized in his life time shall the seizure be continued after his death nor is the Heir in Tail bound to pay any such Arrears But if a Judgment be had against the Recusant Tenant in Tail in his life time the Heir is bound in that Case of which see farther in Stat. 1 Jac. cap. 4. Sect. 4. If a Judgment was had against the Recusant before the said Statute of 1 Jac. and he had died before seizure of the two parts of his Lands The question was whether after his death they might have been seized by force of this Statute of 29. for the Arrears of the penalty incurred in his life time For that the seizure here given is meerly in nature of a nomine poenae or penalty inflicted for his contempt in not paying the 20 l per month and should not have gone in satisfaction of the Debt But the Queen should have held the Land till the 20 l. per month were otherwise paid and satisfied And when this penalty of seizure was not executed in the Recusants life time by his death the contempt was gone and consequently the penalty inflicted for that contempt could not then be put in Execution Vide Lane 92 93. Beckets Case Ibid. 107. Halseys Case Stat. 1 Jac. 4. But now by the Statute of 1 Jac. 4. the seizure is not as a meer penalty for the contempt of non-payment but for the satisfying of the King of the Arrears of the 20 l. per month and the profits of the Land shall go towards the payment and satisfaction thereof so that now there is no question but the two parts of the Recusants Lands may be seized after his death Seizure after the Recusants death unless the Heir discharge himself by his Conformity Note Discharge upon Affidavit in all these Cases of seizure where the Land is to be discharged upon the death of the Recusant although an Affidavit be made of his death and a discharge obtained thereupon yet 't is a Rule in the Court of Exchequer Commission to enquire That a Commission shall be awarded first to enquire Savile 130. Case 201. And where by the said former Estatute Stat. Sect. 8. The third part of the forfeiture how to be disposed of the third part of the forfeitures for not coming to Divine Service is limited to the Poor Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord Treasurer of England Chancellor and Chief Baron of the Exchequer for the time being or two of them to assign and dispose of the full third part of the twenty pounds for every month paid or to be paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer as is aforesaid for the relief and maintenance as well of the Poor and of the Houses of Correction as of impotent and maimed Soldiers as the same Lord Treasurer Chancellor and Chief Baron or any two of them shall order or appoint Any thing in the said Estatute made in the said thrée and twentieth year of her Majesties Reign mentioned to
lieu of the Twenty pounds per month And therefore the Resolution or Judgment said to be given in the Case of one Gray Anno 1. or 2. Jac. and cited in Beckets Case 8 Jac. Lane 93. and by Sergeant Bridgman in his Argument of Parker and Webbs Case 16 Jac. Rolles 2. 25. and applied thereunto viz. That if a Recusant convicted fails of the payment of the Twenty pounds per month the King shall have his Lands as a gage or penalty and the profits shall not go towards satisfaction thereof However it were true as the Law stood upon 29 Eliz. and before the making of this Act of 1 Jac. yet 't is not Law at this day nor could be applicable to either of those Cases of Becket or Parker and Webb which came to be debated long after this Act was made and the Law of 29 Eliz. altered in that point Vide Stat. 29 Eliz. cap. 6. Sect. 7. Where any such seizure shall be had c. This Relative such takes in both the seizures beforementioned viz. a seizure upon Indictment and Judgment thereupon by force of the Statute of 23 Eliz. and a seizure upon Conviction on Proclamation and default according to the Statute of 29 Eliz. And What seizure is here meant Stat. 23 Eliz 1 29 Eliz. â— as in both those Cases the Recusant who fails of the payment of the Twenty pounds per month shall have the benefit to discount the profits received by the King so the King shall in the like Cases of seizure retain the two parts in his hands after the Recusants death until the residue of the Debt or Duty due and payable to the King be satisfied Where this extends not to Intailed Lands Two parts of the Lands c. of any such Recusant This Clause extends not to Intailed Lands unless where there is a Judgment for the King against the Ancestor for his Recusancy And therefore if the Recusant convicted upon Proclamation and default be Tenant in Tail and two parts of his Lands be seized in his Life time for non-payment of the Twenty pounds per month and he die the arrears not being satisfied to the King yet the heir in Tail shall have the Land out of the Kings hands without payment of the arrears For that such Conviction is in the nature of a Verdict only Conviction upon Proclamation no Judgment and not of a Judgment as was held in Doctor Fosters Case Rolles 1.94 C. 41. And where a Statute gives to the King a seizure or forfeiture of Lands it shall not be intended of Lands in Tail unless it be expresly so appointed by the Statute or by force of some other Statute cooperating therewith In which Case the Intailed Lands may be charged by general words in the Statute which gives the forteiture or seizure An instance whereof we have in the Case of a Recusant Tenant in Tail Indicted Stat. 23 Eliz. 1 Convicted and Adjudged upon 23 Eliz. 1. for his Intailed Lands shall remain after his death in the Kings possession until the arrears be satisfied 29 Eliz. 6 33 H. 8. 39 and that by force of 29 Eliz. c. 6. and this Statute cooperating with the Statute of 33 H. 8. cap. 39. which charges the Lands of the heir in Tail with debts due to the King upon a Judgment had against the Ancestor Praemunire Stat. 16 R. 2. 5 But otherwise 't is in the Case of a Praemunire upon the Statute of 16 R. 2. cap. 5. which saith the Lands and Tenements of the Offender shall be forfeit to the King for there his Intailed Lands shall be forfeit during his life only And the reason is for that general words in an Act of Parliament unless aided by some other Act of Parliament shall never take away the force of the Statute de donis conditionalibus Co. 1. Inst. 130. 391. Co. 11.63 Godbolt 308. Lord Sheffeild and Ratcliffe Treason Stat. 26 H. 8. 13 5 E. 6. 11 And therefore in the Statutes of 26 H. 8. cap. 13. and 5 E. 6. cap. 11. which make Intailed Lands forfeitable for Treason the word inheritance was added any Estate of Inheritance which expresly denotes Lands in Fee Tail as well as Feesimple Now there being neither in this Act or that of 29 Eliz. any express appointment that the two parts of all Lands seized in the Recusants life time wherein he had any Estate of Inheritance shall after his death continue in the Kings possession nor no other Statute which charges the heir in Tail with the forfeiture due to the King upon Conviction by Proclamation and Default the general words here that his Lands Tenements c. shall continue in the Kings possession shall not inforce a construction in prejudice of the Heir in Tail who claims by the Statute de donis conditionalibus but where there is no Judgment the Recusants Fee simple Lands shall after his death satisfie the intent of these Statutes And so was the Law in reference to intailed Lands upon the Statute of 29 Eliz. cap. 6. which speaks of the full satisfaction of Arrearages in Case of the death of the Recusant Arrears where to be paid by the Heir in Tail where not And the Arrears were to have been paid by the Heir in Tail only in such Case where there was a Judgment obtained by the King against the Ancestor for his Recusancy but not where the Ancestor Tenant in Tail was convicted only upon Proclamation and default for in this last Case the Heir in Tail was not bound by the Statute of 33 H. 8. cap. 39. because 't is not a Debt by Judgment as that Statute requires Moore 523. C. 691. And thus the Opinion of the two Chief Justices Trin. 43 Eliz. is to be understood for they held That if intailed Lands had been seized for non-payment of the 20 l. per month and the Tenant in Tail had died the issue in Tail should not have had the Land out of the Queens hands before the Debt were satisfied but should have been charged with the said Debt Cro. Eliz. 846. At the end of which Case is added a Dubitatur But yet the Opinion there held stands good if it be intended only of a Conviction of the Ancestor by Judgment upon Trial or Confession and not of a Conviction upon Proclamation and default And be it further Enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament Stat. Sect. 2. None shall go or send any other to a Seminary c. That all and every person and persons under the Kings Obedience which at any time after the end of this Session of Parliament shall pass or go or shall send or cause to be sent any Child or any other person under their or any of their Government into any the parts beyond the Seas out of the Kings Obedience to the intent to enter into or be resident in any Colledge Seminary or House of Iesuits Priests or any other Popish Order
said Oath And that it may likewise be further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any such person or persons as at any time hereafter shall be promoted preferred or collated to any such Promotion Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Benefice Office or Ministry or that by your Highness your Heirs or Successors shall be promoted or preferred to any Temporal or Lay Office Ministry or Service shall and do peremptorily and obstinately refuse to take the same Oath so to him to be offered that then he or they so refusing shall presently be judged disabled in the Law to receive take or have the same Promotion Spiritual or Ecclesiastical or the same Temporal Office Ministry or Service within this Realm or any other your Highnesse Dominions to all intents constructions and purposes He that sues Livery or 〈…〉 And that it may be further enacted by the Authority aforesaid that all and every person and persons Temporal suing Livery or Oustre le maine out of the hands of your Highness your Heirs or Successors before his or their Livery or Oustre le maine sued forth and allowed He that doth homage to the Queen He that shall be received into the Queens service and every Temporal person or persons doing any homage to your Highness your Heirs or Successors or that shall be received into Service with your Highness your Heirs or Successors shall make take and receive the said Corporal Oath before mentioned before the Lord Chancellor of England or the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal for the time being or before such person or persons as by your Highness your Heirs or Successors shall be named and appointed to accept or receive the same And that also all and every person and persons taking Orders He that taketh Orders He that taketh Degrees in any University and all and every other person and persons which shall be promoted or preferred to any Degree of Learning in any Vniversity within this your Realm or Dominions before he shall receive or take any such Orders or be preferred to any such Degree of Learning shall make take and receive the said Oath by this Act set forth and declared as is aforesaid before his or their Ordinary Commissary Chancellor or Vice-Chancellor or their sufficient Deputies in the said Vniversity Provided always He that having an Estate of Inheritance in a temporal Office first refuseth and then taketh the Oath and that it may be further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any person having any Estate of Inheritance in any Temporal Office or Offices shall hereafter obstinately and peremptorily refuse to accept and take the said Oath as is aforesaid and after at any time during his life shall willingly require to take and receive the said Oath and so do take and accept the same Oath before any person or persons that shall have lawful Authority to minister the same that then every such person immediately after he hath so received the same Oath shall be vested judged and deemed in like estate and possession of the said Office as he was before the said refusal and shall and may use and exercise the said Office in such manner and form as he should or might have done before such refusal Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And for the more sure Observation of this Act Stat. Sect. 8. The penalty of the maintenance of Forreign Authority and the utter Extinguishment of all Forreign and usurped Power and Authority may it please your Highness that it may further be enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any person or persons dwelling or inhabiting within this your Realm or in any other your Highnesses Realms or Dominions of what Estate Dignity or Degree whatsoever he or they be after the end of 30 days next after the determination of this Session of this present Parliament shall by Writing Printing Teaching Preaching express words deed or act advisedly maliciously and directly affirm hold stand with set forth maintain or defend the Authority Preheminence Power or Iurisdiction Spiritual or Ecclesiastical of any Forreign Prince Prelate Person State or Potentate whatsoever heretofore claimed used or usurped within this Realm or any Dominion or Country being within or under the Power Dominion or Obeysance of your Highness or shall advisedly maliciously and directly put in ure or execute any thing for the extolling advancement setting forth maintenance or defence of any such pretended or usurped Iurisdiction Power Preheminence or Authority or any part thereof that then every such person and persons so doing and offending their abettors aiders procurers and Counsellors being thereof lawfully convicted and attainted according to the true order and course of the Common Laws of this Realm for his or their first offence shall forfeit and lose unto your Highness your Heirs and Successors all his and their Goods and Chattels as well real as personal The forfeiture for the first Offence And if any person so convicted or attainted shall not have or be worth of his proper Goods and Chattels to the value of twenty pounds at the time of his Conviction or Attainder That then every such person so convicted and attainted over and besides the forfeiture of all his said Goods and Chattels shall have and suffer Imprisonment by the space of one whole year without Bail or Mainprise And that also all and every the Benefices Prebends and other Ecclesiastical Promotions and Dignities whatsoever of every spiritual person so offending and being attainted shall immediately after such Attainder be utterly void to all intents and purposes as though the Incumbent thereof were dead And that the Patron and Donor of every such Benefice Prebend spiritual Promotion and Dignity shall and may lawfully present unto the same or give the same in such manner and form as if the said Incumbent were dead The forfeiture for the second Offence And if any such Offender or Offenders after such Conviction or Attainder do eftsoons commit or do the said Offences or any of them in manner and form aforesaid and be thereof duly convicted and attainted as is aforesaid That then every such Offender and Offenders shall for the same second Offence incur into the dangers penalties and forfeitures ordained and provided by the Statute of Provision and Praemunire made in the sixteenth year of the Reign of King Richard the second The forfeiture for the third Offence And if any such Offender or Offenders at any time after the said second Conviction and Attainder do the third time commit and do the said Offences or any of them in manner and form aforesaid and be thereof duly convicted and attainted as is aforesaid That then every such Offence or Offences shall be deemed and adjudged High Treason and that the Offender or Offenders therein being thereof lawfully convicted and attainted according to the Laws of this Realm shall suffer pains of death and other penalties forfeitures and losses as in
the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding This Branch seems not to extend to all forfeitures for Recusancy For the power here given the Lord Treasurer To what cases of Conviction this Clause extends and to what not c. is only in relation to those forfeitures which are by this Act appointed to be paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer which are the forfeitures due to the Queen by Conviction upon Indictment for this Act meddles with no other so that if the twenty pounds per month be recovered in a popular Suit by the Informer Qui tam c. one third part thereof ought still to be paid to the Poor of the Parish only according to 23 Eliz. cap. 1. notwithstanding this Act. Provided always That this Act Stat. Sect. 9. Assurances made bona fide not to be impeached or any thing therein contained shall not in any wise extend or be construed to make void or impeach any Grant or Lease heretofore to be made bona fide without fraud or covin whereupon any yearly Rent or payment is reserved or payable or any Grant or Lease hereafter to be made bona fide without fraud or covin whereupon the accustomed yearly Rent or more shall be reserved or any other Conveyance Assurance or Assignment whatsoever heretofore made bona fide upon good consideration and without fraud or covin which is not or shall not be revokable at the pleasure of such Offender otherwise then to give benefit and title to her Majesty her Heirs and Successors to have perceive and enjoy such Rents and Payments during the continuance of such Lease or Grant according to the true meaning of this Act. Seizure of Lands whereof the Offender hath but an Estate for life or in his Wives right And provided also That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not in any wise extend or be construed to continue any seizure of any Lands or Tenements of such Offender in her Majesties hands or in the hands of her Heirs or Successors after the said Offenders death which Lands or Tenements he shall have or be seized of only for term of his life or in the Right of his Wife Any thing in this Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Stat. xxxv Eliz. cap. i. An Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due Obedience FOR preventing and avoiding of such great inconveniencies and perils as might happen and grow by the wicked and dangerous practices of seditious Sectaries and disloyal persons Stat. Sect. 1. The penalty of a Recusant perswading others to impugne the Queens Ecclesiastical power Be it Enacted by the Queéns most Excellent Majesty and by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That if any person or persons above the age of sixteen years which shall obstinately refuse to repair to some Church Chappel or usual place of Common Prayer to hear Divine Service established by her Majesties Laws and Statutes in that behalf made and shall forbear to do the same by the space of a month next after without any lawful cause shall at any time after forty days next after the end of this Session of Parliament by Printing Writing or express words or speéches advisedly or purposely practise or go about to move or perswade any of her Majesties Subjects or any other within her Highness Realms or Dominions to deny withstand and impugne her Majesties Power and Authority in cases Ecclesiastical united and annexed to the Imperial Crown of this Realm or to that end or purpose shall advisedly and maliciously move or perswade any other person whatsoever to forbear or abstain from coming to Church to hear Divine Service Or to forbear coming to Church or to receive the Communion according to her Majesties Laws and Statutes aforesaid or to come to or to be present at any unlawful Assemblies Conventicles or Meétings under colour or pretence of any exercise of Religion Or to be present at unlawful Conventicles contrary to her Majesties said Laws and Statutes Or if any person or persons which shall obstinately refuse to repair to some Church Chappel or usual place of Common Prayer and shall forbear by the space of a month to hear Divine Service as is aforesaid shall after the said forty days either of him or themselves or by the motion perswasion inticement or allurement of any other willingly joyn in or be present at any such Assemblies Conventicles or Méetings under colour or pretence of any such exercise of Religion contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm as is aforesaid That then every such person so offending as aforesaid and being thereof lawfully convicted shall be committed to Prison there to remain without Bail or Mainprize until they shall conform and yield themselves to come to some Church Chappel or usual place of Common Prayer and hear Divine Service according to her Majesties Laws and Statutes aforesaid and to make such open submission and Declaration of their said Conformity as hereafter in this Act is declared and appointed Which shall obstinately refuse to repair c. shall c. by Printing c. Wingate in abridging of this Statute tit Crowne numb 70. saith that if any person above sixteen years of age obstinately refuses to come to Church for a month or impugnes the Queens Authority in Causes Ecclesiastical he shall be committed to Prison which is a great mistake for no man shall be punished by this Act for either of those Causes only The not coming to Church being only a precedent Qualification required in the person whom the Act makes liable to the penalties thereof for the other offences therein mentioned Who may be an offender within this Act and who not And therefore if a man never comes to Church yet he is no offender within this Act unless he advisedly or purposely move or perswade another to deny or impugne the Kings Authority in Causes Ecclesiastical or to that end or purpose advisedly and maliciously move or perswade some other to forbear to come to Church or receive the Communion or to be present at Conventicles c. or he himself be present at such Conventicles c. And on the other hand if a man move or perswade any other to deny or impugne the Kings Authority in Causes Ecclesiastical or to forbear to come to Church or receive the Communion or to be present at Conventicles c. or if he himself be present at any Conventicles c. yet he is no Offender within this Act if he goes to Church once within the compass of a month so that the party must both forbear to come to Church and be guilty of some other of the offences here enumerated or he is not punishable by this Act And as for the denying or impugning the Kings Authority in Causes Ecclesiastical it s no offence within this Statute unless the party moves or
to any person or capable of any Legacy or Deéd of Gift or to bear any Office within the Realm and shall lose and forfeit all his Goods and Chattels and shall forfeit all his Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Rents Annuities Offices and Estates of Fréehold for and during his natural Life Stat. Sect. 2. He that conforms shall not incur the penalties aforesaid Provided always That no person sent or conveyed as aforesaid that shall within Six months after his Return into this Realm conform himself unto the present Religion established in this Church of England and receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper according to the Statutes made concerning conformity in other Cases required from Popish Recusants shall incur any the penalties aforesaid Within Six months after his return And not within Six weeks as Wingate tit Crowne numb 157. erroneously Stat. Sect. 3. What Justices shall hear and determine these offences And it is Enacted That all and every of the offences against this Statute may be inquired heard and determined before the Iustices of the Kings Bench or Iustices of Assize or Goal delivery or of Oyer and Terminer of such Counties where the Offenders did last dwell or abide or whence they departed out of this Kingdom or where they were taken Or of Oyer and Terminer Justices of Peace Justices of Peace here excluded cannot take an Indictment upon this Statute for no inferior Court shall take Authority by any Statute unless it be specially named Savile 135. C. 212. Agard and Candish And although Justices of Peace have in their Commission an express Clause ad audiendum terminandum and by that are Justices of Oyer and Terminer yet forasmuch as there is a Commission of Oyer and Terminer known distinctly by that name and the Commission of Peace is known distinctly by another name they shall not be included under the general words of Justices of Oyer and Terminer as was adjudged Hill 30 Eliz. B. R. in the Case of Richard Smith who was Indicted at the Sessions of the Peace in the County of Oxon upon the Statute of 5 Eliz. cap. 14. Stat. 5 Eliz. 14 of forging Deeds which impowers the Justices of Oyer and Terminer to inquire of hear and determine that offence and yet the Indictment before the Justices of Peace was quashed as taken coram non Judice Co. 9.118 Co. 3. Inst. 103. Cro. Eliz. 87. vide Cro. Mich. 39 40 Eliz. 601. Wilsons Case Ibid. Mich. 41 42 Eliz. 697. Hunts Case Or where they were taken Vide Stat. 3 Jac. cap. 4. 3 Jac. 4. Sect. 21. Provided also That if any person or Child Stat. Sect. 4. In what Case the offenders Lands shall be restored again so passing or sent or now being beyond the Seas shall after his return into this Realm conform himself to the present Religion established in this Church of England and receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper according to the Statutes made for or concerning conformity in other Cases required from Popish Recusants for and during such time as he or she shall so continue in such conformity and obedience occording to the true intent and meaning of the said Laws and Statutes shall have his or her Lands restored to them again Addendum Stat. xxv Car. ii c. ii An Act for Preventing Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants FOR preventing Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants and quieting the minds of His Majesties good Subjects Be it Enacted by the Kings 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 Authority of the same That all and every person or persons as well Péers as Commoners that shall bear any Office or Offices Civil or Military or shall receive any Pay Salary Fée or Wages by reason of any Patent or Grant from His Majesty or shall have Command or Place of Trust from or under His Majesty or from any of His Majesties Predecessors or by His or their Authority or by Authority derived from Him or them within the Realm of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or in His Majesties Navy or in the several Islands of Jersey and Guernsey or shall be of the Houshold or in the Service or Imployment of His Majesty or of his Royal Highness the Duke of York who shall inhabit reside or be within the City of London or Westminster or within Thirty miles distant from the same on the first day of Easter Term that shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy threé or at any time during the said Term all and every the said person and persons shall personally appear before the end of the said Term or of Trinity Term next following in His Majesties high Court of Chancery or in His Majesties Court of Kings Bench and there in publick and open Court between the hours of Nine of the Clock and Twelve in the Forenoon take the several Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance which Oath of Allegiance is contained in the Statute made in the third Year of King James by Law established and during the time of the taking thereof by the said person and persons all Pleas and Procéedings in the said respective Courts shall cease And that all and every of the said respective persons and Officers not having taken the said Oaths in the said respective Courts aforesaid shall on or before the First day of August One thousand six hundred seventy thrée at the Quarter Sessions for that County or place where he or they shall be inhabit or reside on the Twentieth day of May take the said Oaths in open Court betwéen the said hours of Nine and Twelve of the Clock in the Forenoon And the said respective Officers aforesaid shall also receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper according to the Vsage of the Church of England at or before the First day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and seventy thrée in some Parish Church upon some Lords day commonly called Sunday immediately after Divine Service and Sermon And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every person or persons that shall be admitted entred placed or taken into any Office or Offices Civil or Military or shall receive any Pay Salary Fée or Wages by reason of any Patent or Grant of his Majesty or shall have Command or Place of Trust from or under his Majesty his Heirs or Successors or by his or their Authority or by Authority derived from him or them within this Realm of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or in his Majesties Navy or in the several Islands of Jersey and Gernsey or that shall be admitted into any Service or Imployment in his Majesties or Royal Highnesses Houshold or Family after the First day of Easter Term aforesaid and shall inhabit be