Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	act_n	offence_n	punish_v	1,000	5	10.2563	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

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

such person shall and may plead the General Issue and give the special Matter in Evidence and if the Plaintiff be Non-suit or a Verdict pass for the Defendant or if the Plaintiff discontinue his Action or if upon Demurrer Iudgment be given for the Defendant every such Defendant shall have his full treble Costs And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That this Act and all Clauses therein contained shall be construed most largely and beneficially for the Suppressing of Conventicles and for the Iustification and Encouragement of all persons to be imployed in the Execution thereof And that no Record Warrant or Mittimus to be made by vertue of this Act or any proceédings thereupon shall be Reversed Avoided or any way Impeached by reason of any Default in form And in case any person offending against this Act shall be an Inhabitant in any other County or Corporation or flie into any other County or Corporation after the Offence committed the Iustice of the Peace or chief Magistrate before whom he shall be Convicted as aforesaid shall Certifie the same under his Hand and Seal to any Iustice of Peace or chief Magistrate of such other County or Corporation wherein the said person or persons are Inhabitants or are fled into which said Iustice or chief Magistrate respectively is hereby Authorized and Required to levy the Penalty or Penalties in this Act mentioned upon the Goods and Chattels of such person or persons as fully as the said other Iustice of Peace might have done in case he or they had been Inhabitants in the place where the Offence was committed Provided also That no person shall be punished for any Offence against this Act unless such Offender be Prosecuted for the same within Three moneths after the Offence committed And that no person who shall be punished for any Offence by vertue of this Act shall be punished for the same Offence by vertue of any other Act or Law whatsoever Provided and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Alderman of London for the time being within the City of London and the Liberties thereof shall have and they and every of them are hereby Impowred and Required to Execute the same power and Authority within London and the Liberties thereof for the Examining Convicting and Punishing of all Offences within this Act committed within London and the Liberties thereof which any Iustice of Peace hath by this Act in any County of England and shall be subject to the same Penalties and Punishments for not doing that which by this Act is directed to be done by any Iustice of Peace in any County of England Provided and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if the person Offending and Convicted as aforesaid be a Feme-Covert cohabiting with her Husband the Penalties of Five shillings and Ten shillings so as aforesaid incurred shall be levied by Warant as aforesaid upon the Goods and Chattels of the Husband of such Feme-Covert Provided also That no Peer of this Realm shall be Attached or Imprisoned by vertue or force of this Act Any thing Matter or Clause therein to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to invalidate or avoid His Majesties Supremacy in Eeclesiastical Affairs But that His Majesty and His Heirs and Successors may from time to time and at all times hereafter Exercise and Enjoy all Powers and Authorities in Ecclesiastical Affairs as fully and as amply as himself or any of his Predetessors have or might have done the same Any thing in this Act notwithstanding