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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87444	A just and cleere refutation of a false and scandalous pamphlet, entituled, Babylons fall in Maryland, &c. and, a true discovery of certaine strange and inhumane proceedings of some ungratefull people in Maryland, towards those who formerly preserved them in time of their greatest distresse. To which is added a law in Maryland concerning religion, and a declaration concerning the same. / By John Langford Gentleman, Servant to the Lord Baltemore.	Langford, John, Gentleman, servant to Lord Baltimore.	1655 (1655)	Wing J1220; Wing L387; Thomason E853_25; ESTC R16909	16,616	35

not to accept of the place of Governour or one of the Councel there this last mentioned Oath of the Governour and Councel was appointed in the life time of the late King The Lord Baltemore conceiving it lawfull and justifiable by his Patent to require such an Oath from such as hee should imploy in Offices of so great trust in so remote a place for although by his Patent the sovereign Dominion of that Province bee reserved to the late King his Heirs and Successors yet the immediate and subordinate authority of the Government therof is granted to his Lorship his Heyres so as no man ought to act therein but by authority derived from him And hee appointed this Oath to be taken by the aforesayd Officers when he made Capt. Stone Governour and Mr. Tho. Hatton Secretary and others of his Councell there who being of different Judgement in Religion from himselfe his Lordship thought it but reasonable and fit that as he did oblige them by Oath not to disturbe any there who professed to beleeve in Jesus Christ so to expresse the Roman Catholickes in particular who were of his own judgement in matter of Religion A true Copy of a Law made in Maryland Entituled An Act concerning Religion FOrasmuch as in a well Governed and Christian Common-wealth matters concerning Religion and the Honour of God ought in the first place to bee taken into serious consideration and indevoured to be setled Bee it therefore Ordayned and Enacted by the Right Honourable CAECILIUS Lord Baron of Baltemore * This Title is given his Lordship in his Patent of Maryland absolute Lord and Proprietary of this Province with the Advice and Consent of the Upper and Lower House of this Generall Assembly that whatsoever Person or Persons within this Province and the Islands thereunto belonging shall from henceforth Blaspheame GOD that is curse him or shall deny our Saviour JESUS CHRIST to bee the Son of God or shall deny the Holy Trinity the Father Son and Holy Ghost or the Godhead of any of the sayd Three Persons of the Trinity or the Unity of the Godhead or shall use or utter any reproachfull speeches words or language concerning the Holy Trinity or any of the sayd three Persons thereof shal be punished with death and confiscation or forfeiture of all his or her Land and Goods to the Lord Proprietary and his Heires And bee it also Enacted by the Authority and with the advice and assent aforesaid That whatsoever Person or Persons shall from henceforth use or utter any reproachfull words or speeches concerning the Blessed Virgin MARY the Mother of our Saviour or the holy Apostles or Evangelists or any of them shall in such case for the first Offence forfeit to the sayd Lord Proprietary and his heires Lords and Proprietaries of this Province the sum of 5 l. sterling or the value thereof to bee levied on the goods and chattells of every such person so offending but in case such offender or offenders shall not then have goods and chattels sufficient for the satisfying of such forfeiture or that the same be not otherwise speedily satisfied that then such offender or offenders shall be publikely whipt and bee imprisoned during the pleasure of the Lord Proprietary or the Lievetenant or Chiefe Governour of this Province for the time being and that every such offender and offenders for every second offence shall forfeit 10 l. sterling or the value therof to be levied as aforesayd or in case such offender or offenders shall not then have goods and chattells within this Province sufficient for that purpose then to be publikely and severely whipt and imprisoned as before is expressed And that every person or persons before mentioned offending heerin the third time shall for such third offence forfeit all his lands and goods and be for ever banisht and expelled out of this Province And be i● also further Enacted by the same authority advice and assent that whatsoever person or persons shall from henceforth upon any occasion of offence or otherwise in a reproachfull maner or way declare call or denominate any person or persons whatsoever inhabiting residing trafficking trading or commercing within this Province or within any the Ports Harbors Creeks or Havens to the same belonging an Heretick Schismatick Idolater Puritan Presbyterian Independent Popish Priest Jesuit Jesuited Papist Lutheran Calvinist Anabaptist Brownist Antinomian Barrowist Roundhead Separatist or other name or terme in a reproachfull maner relating to matter of Religion shall for every such offence forfet and lose the sum of 10 s. sterling or the value therof to be levied on the goods and Chattels of every such offender and offenders the one halfe thereof to be forfeted and payd unto the person and persons of whom such reproachfull words are or shall bee spoken or uttered and the other halfe thereof to the Lord Proprietary and his Heirs Lords and Proprietaries of this Province But if such person or persons who shall at any time utter or speak any such reproachfull words or language shall not have goods or chattells sufficient and overt within this Province to bee taken to satisfie the penalty aforesayd or that the same bee not otherwise speedily satisfied that then the person and persons so offending shal be publikely whipt and shall suffer imprisonment without Bayle or Mainprise untill he she or they respectively shall satisfie the party offended or grieved by such reproachfull language by asking him or her respectively forgivenes publikely for such his offence before the Magistrate or chiefe Officer or Officers of the Towne or Place where such offence shall bee given And be it further likewise Enacted by the authority and consent aforesayd that every person and persons within this Province that shall at any time heereafter prophane the Sabaoth or Lords day called Sunday by frequent swearing drunkennesse or by any uncivill or disorderly Recreation or by working on that day when absolute necessity doth not require shall for every such first offence forfet 2 s. 6 d. sterling or the value therof and for the second offence 5 s. sterling or the value thereof and for the third offence and for everytime he shall offend in like maner afterwards 10 s. sterling or the value therof and in case such offender or offenders shall not have sufficient goods or chattells within this Province to satisfie any of the aforesayd penalties respectively heereby imposed for prophaning the Sabaoth or Lords day called Sunday as aforesaid then in every such Case the party so offending shall for the first and second offence in that kind be imprisoned till hee or she shall publikely in open Court before the chief Commander Judge or Magistrate of that County Towne or Precinct wherein such offence shall be committed acknowledge the scandall and offence hee hath in that respect given against God and the good and civill Government of this Province And for the third offence and for every time after shall also be publikely whipt