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<P><HI>ANNO. XXVIII. HENRICI VIII.</HI></P>
<P><HI>ACTES MADE IN THE parliament bego~ne and hol|den</HI> at We&s;tm~, the <HI>.VIII.</HI> daye of Iune, in the <HI>.XXVIII.</HI> yere of the reygne of our mo&s;t drad &s;oueraine lord kyng <HI>HENRY</HI> the <HI>.VIII.</HI> and there continued and kepte tyll the di&s;&s;olution of the &s;ame parliament the <HI>.XVIII.</HI> of Iuly, to the honour of God, and for the common weale and profyt of this realme.</P>
<P><HI>THO. BERTHELET RE|GIS IMPRESSOR EX|CVDEBAT, CVM PRIVILEGIO.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>THE TABLE.</HEAD>
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<ITEM>_AN acte that felons abiuring for pety trea&s;on, murder, or felony, &s;hall not be admitted to the benefite of their clergie. <LABEL>cap. i.</LABEL></ITEM>
<ITEM>An acte for continuinge of two &s;tatutes made in the la&s;t parlia|ment, touchyng &s;uche as go away with ca&s;kettes, iewels, goo|des, or plate of their mai&s;ters. <LABEL>capit. ii.</LABEL></ITEM>
<ITEM>An acte giuinge the kinges highnes auctoritie newely to allotte the towne|&s;hippes in the &s;hyres and marches of Wales, at any time within .iii. yeres nexte en&s;uing. <LABEL>capi. iii.</LABEL></ITEM>
<ITEM>An acte repellyng the &s;tatute lately made for the bringing in of doulas and lockerams. <LABEL>cap. iiii.</LABEL></ITEM>
<ITEM>An acte for auoydynge of exactions taken vpon prentyces in the cities bo|roughes and townes corporate. <LABEL>cap. v.</LABEL></ITEM>
<ITEM>An acte for continuaunce of the &s;tatutes for beggers and vacabundes, and agayn&s;t conueiaunce of hor&s;es and mares oute of this realme, agayn&s;te Wal&s;hemen, makynge affrayes in the counties of Herff. Glou. and Sa|lop~, and agan&s;t the vice of buggery. <LABEL>cap. vi.</LABEL></ITEM>
<ITEM>An act for the e&s;tabli&s;hment of the &s;ucce&s;&s;ion of the imperial crowne of this realme. <LABEL>cap. vii.</LABEL></ITEM>
<ITEM>An acte for contynuaunce of the &s;tatute ayen&s;te the cariage of bra&s;&s;e latenne and copper out of this realme: and for makynge of cables and ropes: for the wyndyng of wolles, and ayen&s;t kyllyng of weinlinges vnder the age of two yeres. <LABEL>cap. viii.</LABEL></ITEM>
<ITEM>An acte for continuaunce of the &s;tatutes of periury, for makynge of iayles, for peuterers, and for &s;owynge of flaxe and hempe. <LABEL>cap. ix.</LABEL></ITEM>
<ITEM>An acte extynguy&s;hynge the auctoritie of the by&s;hop of Rome. <LABEL>cap. x.</LABEL></ITEM>
<ITEM>An acte for re&s;titution of the fyr&s;te fruites in tyme of vacation to the nexte Incumbent. <LABEL>cap. xi.</LABEL></ITEM>
<ITEM>An acte declarynge the lymyttes of the kynges palays of We&s;tm~. <LABEL>cap. xii.</LABEL></ITEM>
<ITEM>An acte compellynge &s;pirituall per&s;ons to kepe re&s;ydence vpon theyr bene|fices. <LABEL>cap. xiii.</LABEL></ITEM>
<ITEM>An acte limitting the pryces of wynes. <LABEL>cap. xiiii.</LABEL></ITEM>
<ITEM>An acte for puni&s;hement of pirotes and robbers on the &s;ea. <LABEL>capit. xv.</LABEL></ITEM>
<ITEM>An acte for the relea&s;e of &s;uche as haue opteyned pretended lycences and dy|&s;pen&s;ations from the &s;ea of Rome. <LABEL>cap. xvi.</LABEL></ITEM>
<ITEM>An acte giuynge auctoritie to &s;uche as &s;hal &s;uccede to the crowne of this re|alme, whan they come to the age of .xxiiii. yeres, to make fru&s;trate &s;uche a|ctes as &s;hall be made before in theyr tyme. <LABEL>cap. xvii.</LABEL></ITEM>
<ITEM>An acte concernyng trea&s;on in certayne ca&s;es. <LABEL>cap. xviii.</LABEL></ITEM>
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<TRAILER>FINIS TABVLAE.</TRAILER>
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<HEAD>&para; An acte that felons abiuringe for pety trea&s;on, murder, or felony, &s;hall not be admytted to the benefyte of theyr clergie. Capi. i.</HEAD>
<P>_WHere in the la&s;te parliament begonne and holden at Lon|don, the third day of Nouembre, in the .xxi. yere of the kin|ges moo&s;te gratious reygne,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Abiuration.</NOTE> and from thens adiourned to We&s;tmyn&s;ter, and there holden and continued by dy|uers and &s;ondry prorogations, It was enacted amonges other thynges, that &s;uch per&s;one and per&s;ones,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sainctuary</NOTE> which dyd <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ee or re&s;orte to any pary&s;he church, cimitory, or other lyke halowed place for tuition of his lyfe, by occa&s;ion of any murder robberye or other felony by the &s;ame per&s;on commytted, and thervpon confe&s;&s;ed any murder felony or other offence before a crowner: for the whiche the &s;ame per&s;one by the lawe of this realme afore that tyme v&s;ed, &s;hulde abiure and pa&s;&s;e out of this realme, &s;hulde be dyrected by the crowner to take his abiuratyon to any one &s;aynctuary, being within this realme, which the &s;ame per&s;on wold decte and cho&s;e, there to remayne as a &s;aintuary man abiured, duringe his naturall lyfe. And if after &s;uch abiuration, any per&s;on &s;o abiured, came out of the &s;ame &s;aynctuarye, to the which he was a&s;&s;ygned, and be taken with|out the &s;ame &s;aynctuary, not hauynge the kinges &s;peciall pardon or licence &s;o to do, that then euery &s;uch per&s;onne abiured, and after abiuration taken without &s;aynctuarye, whervnto he was a&s;&s;igned, &s;huld &s;uffre lyke peyne of deathe, and after lyke maner &s;huld be ordered, as he &s;huld haue done and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">den, in ca&s;e he had abiured this realme for murder or felony, and after &s;u|che abiuration had returned agayne into this realme, contrarye to y^e lawes of this land. And it was further ordeined by the &s;ame acte, that if any &s;uch &s;aynctuary per&s;onne &s;o abiured, or any other per&s;onne or per&s;onnes, which then were, or at any tyme after &s;huld happen to be in any &s;ainctuary of this realme, for doinge of any pety trea&s;on murder or felonye, or for being acce&s;|&s;arye to any &s;uch offences: or if any per&s;one or per&s;ons, which at any time after the making of the &s;ame acte, &s;huld take, any &s;ayntuary of this realme for any pety trea&s;on murder or felony, or for beinge acce&s;&s;ary to any &s;uch of+fences, or vpon abiuration: and &s;o being in &s;ainctuary for any &s;uch cau&s;e matter or offence, afterward co~mit any pety trea&s;on murder or felony with|in the &s;ame &s;ainctuarie, or be acce&s;&s;arie to any &s;uch offences, or goo oute of the &s;ame &s;ainctuarie, and co~mytte any petye trea&s;on, murder or felonye, or be acce&s;&s;ary to any &s;uch offences, and afterward come again to the &s;ame &s;ainctuarie, or take any other &s;ainctuarie for the &s;ame: that euery &s;uch per|&s;on and per&s;ons, beinge indited for any of the &s;aid cau&s;es or offences, &s;huld lo&s;e the priuilege of the &s;aintuary by him taken, and of euery other &s;aintu|ary within this realme for any &s;uch cau&s;e of pety trea&s;on, murder, felony, or abiuration, or for any acce&s;&s;ary to any &s;uche offences.</P>
<P>&para;And it was further ordeyned by the &s;ame acte, that al foreine plees, tria|ble by countrey, whiche &s;hulde be pleded by any per&s;on or per&s;ons array|ned
<PB REF="3"> vpon any inditement for any pety trea&s;on, murder, or felonye, &s;huld be tried before the &s;ame Iu&s;tices, afore whom &s;uch per&s;onnes &s;huld be array|ned, and by the &s;ame iurours of the countie, that &s;hal trie the petye trea&s;on murder or felony,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Challenge</NOTE> without any further re&s;pite or delaie, And that no per&s;on arrayned for any pety trea&s;on, murder, or felony, &s;hulde be admitted to any paremptorye challenge aboue the noumbre of .xx. which acte was made to endure to the ende of the nexte parliament, as by the &s;aid act amonges di|uers clau&s;es &amp; proui&s;ions conteined in the &s;ame more plainely is expre&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P>&para;And where al&s;o in the &s;ame parliame~t it was enacted, that no per&s;on or per&s;ons, which &s;huld happen to be founde giltie after the lawes of this re|alme, for any maner of petye trea&s;on, or for any wilfulle murder of malice prepen&s;ed, or for robbinge of any churches, chapelles, or other holie places, or for robbyng of any per&s;onne or per&s;onnes, in theyr dwellinge hou&s;es or dwellinge place, the owner or dweller in the &s;aide hou&s;e, his wife, his chyl|dren, or &s;eruauntes then beinge within, and putte in feare and drede by the &s;ame: Or for robbing of any per&s;on or per&s;ons in or nere about the highe wayes, or for wilfull bourninge of any dwellinge hou&s;es or bernes, wherin any corn or graine &s;hal happen to be: nor that any per&s;on or per&s;o~s, being founde giltie of any abbetrement; procurement, helpinge, maynteyning, or coun&s;aylinge of or to any &s;uch petie trea&s;on,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Benefyt of clergy.</NOTE> murders, or felonies, &s;huld be admitted to the benefyte of theyr clergye (&s;uche as be within holy orders, y^t is to &s;aye, of the orders of &s;ubdeacon or aboue, all onely except) with many other clau&s;es and proui&s;ions conteined in the &s;aid acte, as by the &s;ame acte more playnely appereth: which acte was al&s;o made to co~tinue and endure to the la&s;te daye of the nexte parlyament.</P>
<P>&para;And where al&s;o in the &s;ame parliame~t it was further enacted, that eue|ry &s;uch per&s;one and per&s;ons, which &s;hulde happen to be indited of any pe|ty trea&s;on, wilfull burninge of hou&s;es, murder, robberie, or burgularye, or other felonye, accordinge to the tenour and meaninge of the &s;aid e&s;tatute nexte aboue reher&s;ed,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Standynge muet.</NOTE> and thervpon arrained, didde &s;tande muet of malice, or froward minde, or challeng paremptorie aboue the numbre of .xx. or els will not an&s;were directely to the &s;ame inditement and felony, whervpo~ they &s;hal be arrayned: that then euery &s;uche per&s;on and per&s;ones, &s;huld lo&s;e the benefite and priuilege of theyr clergie.</P>
<P>&para;<HI>AND IT VVAS ALSO ORDEYNED</HI> by the &s;ame acte, that if any per&s;on or per&s;ones, be indited and founde giltie for &s;tealing of any goodes or cattelles, in any countie of this realme, or beinge indited, &s;tande muet of malyce, or chalenge paremptorie aboue the numbre of .xx. per&s;onnes, or will not aun&s;were directely to the lawe, &s;huld al&s;o lo&s;e the benefite of theyr clergie, in like maner and fourme as they &s;hulde haue doone, if they hadde be endyted, arrayned, and founde gyltye in the &s;ame countie, where the &s;ame robberie or burgulary was doone, if it &s;hall appere to y^e Iu&s;tices, by euidence or examination, that the &s;aide felons or robbers arayned afore them, &s;huld or ought to haue lo&s;te theyr clergie by force of the &s;aid e&s;tatute
<PB REF="3"> in ca&s;e they hadde be founde gyltie of the &s;ame felonies or burglaries, in the &s;ame &s;hyre where they were commytted, as by the &s;ayde acte amonges other thinges more at large is expre&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P>&para;And where al&s;o in the &s;ayde parlyament it was further ordeyned, that the dete&s;table vice of buggery, commytted with mankynde or bea&s;te,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Buggery. Felony.</NOTE> &s;houlde be felony, and that the offenders therin &s;hulde lo&s;e the priuilege of theyr clergy: whiche acte was made to endure to the la&s;te daye of the nexte parlyamente, as by the &s;ame acte amonge&s;te other thinges it appereth more at large. For as moche as the &s;ayde actes, be beneficiall and profitable for the common welthe of this realme, Be it therfore enacted by auctoritie of this pre&s;ent par|lyamente, that the &s;ayde actes and euery of theym, and all clau&s;es and pro|ui&s;ions conteyned in the &s;ame, &s;hall &s;tande in full &s;trengthe and vertue, and from hen&s;eforthe to continue and endure vnto the la&s;t daye of the nexte par|lyament.</P>
<P>&para;And al&s;o be it enacted by auctoritie afore&s;ayd, that &s;uche as be within ho|ly orders, &s;hall from hen&s;eforth &s;tande and be vnder the &s;ame peines and daungers for the offences conteyned in any of the &s;ayde &s;tatutes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Orders.</NOTE> and be v&s;ed and ordered to all intentes and purpo&s;es, as other per&s;ons not beynge with|in holy orders: Any proui&s;ion or exception &s;pecified in any of the &s;ayd actes, or any other v&s;age or cu&s;tome of this realme to the contrary therof not with|&s;tanding. This acte to endure vnto the la&s;t day of the next parliament.</P>
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<HEAD>&para;An acte for continuing of two &s;tatutes made in the la&s;t parlyament tou|chynge &s;uche as go awaye with ca&s;kettes, iewels, goodes, or plate of theyr may&s;ters. Cap. ii.</HEAD>
<P>_WHere in the la&s;te parlyamente begonne and holden at Lon+don, the third day of Nouembre, in the .xxi. yere of the kin|ges moo&s;t gracious reygne, and from then&s;e adiourned to We&s;tmyn&s;ter, and there holden and continued by diuers prorogations vnto the di&s;&s;olution therof, it was ordeined &amp; enacted amonge&s;t other thinges, that yf any &s;eruauntes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Seruantes, Ca&s;kettes, Iewels.</NOTE> to whome any ca&s;kettes iewels money goodes or catalles, &s;hulde be deliuered to kepe by his or theyr mai&s;ters or mai&s;tre&s;&s;es, doo go a|waye with the &s;aide ca&s;kettes, iewels, money, goodes, or cacalles, or any parte therof, to the intente to &s;teale the &s;ame, and defraude his or their &s;aide mai&s;ter or may&s;tres therof, contrary to the tru&s;te and confidence to him or them putte by his or their &s;aide mai&s;ters or mai&s;tre&s;&s;es: Or elles being in &s;er|uyce without a&s;&s;ente or commaundemente of his &s;aide mai&s;ter or may&s;tres embe&s;ile the ca&s;kettes, iewelles, money, goodes, or cattalles,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Embe&s;iling.</NOTE> of his &s;aid mai|&s;ter or mai&s;tre&s;&s;e, or any parte therof, or otherwy&s;e conuerte the &s;ame to his owne v&s;e, with lyke purpo&s;e to &s;teale, than if the &s;aide ca&s;kets, iewels, money, goodes, or cattalles, that any &s;uche &s;eruaunte &s;hall go awaye with or whi|che he &s;hall embe&s;yle with pourpo&s;e to &s;teale it (as is afore &s;ayde) be of the
<PB REF="4"> value of .xl.s. or aboue: that then the &s;ame fal&s;e fraudulent and vntrewe acte and demeanour &s;hould from hen&s;eforth be demed and adiudged felony. And that he or they &s;o offendyng,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Felony.</NOTE> &s;hould be puni&s;hed as other felons be puni&s;hed for felony commytted by cour&s;e of the common lawe, whiche acte was then made to endure to the next parliament.</P>
<P>&para;And where al&s;o in an other acte made in the &s;ayde parlyament, it was en|acted, that if any &s;eruaunte for the tyme beyng in &s;eruyce with any per&s;on or per&s;ons, happen to &s;teale, or felonou&s;ely take awaye any iewels money plate or other goodes or cattalles of his mai&s;ter or may&s;tre&s;&s;e: or if any &s;eruaunt, to whome any ca&s;kette iewels money goodes or cattalles were delyuered by his may&s;ter or may&s;tre&s;&s;e, and goo awaye with the &s;ayde ca&s;ket money goo|des or cattalles, or any parte therof, contrarye to the tru&s;te and confydence to hym or theym putte: or withoute the a&s;&s;ente or commaundemente of his &s;ayde may&s;ter or ma&s;tre&s;&s;e embe&s;ile any ca&s;kette, iewelles, money, goodes, or cattalles, or any parte therof, or otherwy&s;e conuerte the &s;ame to his owne v&s;e, with pourpo&s;e to &s;teale it, if the &s;ayde ca&s;kette, money, iewels, goodes, or other cattalles, be of the value of .xl.s. or aboue: that then the offendour in &s;uche ca&s;e &s;hould lo&s;e the benefitte of his clergye,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Benefite of clergy. Sainctuary.</NOTE> and the priuilege of al &s;ain|tuaryes, as by the &s;ayde &s;euerall actes more playnly appereth. For as moche as the &s;ayd actes be~ thought nece&s;&s;ary for the common welth of this realme, Be it therfore enacted by auctoritie of this pre&s;ent parlyament, that the &s;ame actes, and euery of theym, and al and euery clau&s;e article and proui&s;o therin conteyned, &s;hall from hen&s;eforth &s;tand good &amp; endure and continue for euer.</P>
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<HEAD>An acte gyuynge the kinges hyghnes auctoritie newly to allotte the towne|&s;hyppes in the &s;hyres and marches of wales, at any tyme with in three yeres next en&s;uynge. Cap. iii.</HEAD>
<P>_VHere in the parlyamente begonne and holden at London the thyrde daye of Nouembre, in the .xxi. yere of the reygne of oure moo&s;te drad &s;oueraygne lorde kynge Henry the .viii. and frome then&s;e adiourned to We&s;tmyn&s;ter, and there holden and conty|nued by dyuers prorogations vnto the .iiii. daye of Februarye, in the .xxvii. yere of the reygne of our &s;ayde &s;oueraygne lorde, and then and there holden and continued vnto the dy&s;&s;olution therof, one acte and ordy|nance was made in the &s;e&s;&s;ion of the &s;ayde parlyament, holden the &s;ayde .iiii. day of Februarie,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Shires newly made in Wales.</NOTE> wherby amonges other thynges dyuers &s;hyres and coun|ties were newely made and named within the dominion and principalitie of wales, and dyuers townes pary&s;hes lorde&s;hyppes commotes and cantredes within the &s;ayde dominion and principalitie, were allotted appoynted &amp; ly|mitted to the &s;aid &s;eueral &s;hires and counties, as by the &s;ame act more plain|ly and particularly amonges other thinges appereth. And for as moche as by credable information it is commen to the kinges knowledge &s;ythens the makinge of the &s;ayde acte, that &s;ome lorde&s;hyppes, townes, pary&s;hes, com|motes,
<PB REF="4"> hundredes, and cantredes, be not indyfferently allotted and lymyt|ted to the &s;hires named in the &s;ayde acte, for the commoditie of the kynges <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ectes therin inhabyted: Be it therfore enacted by auctoritie of this pre|&s;ente parlyament, that the kynges hyghnes (durynge the tyme of thre yeres <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">t after the ende of this pre&s;ent parlyament) &s;hall haue power and aucto|ritie, by wrytynge vnder his great &s;eale,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Allottyng of town&s;hyps in Wales.</NOTE> to allotte appoynte a&s;&s;ygne and ly|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">te to euery of the &s;hires named in the &s;ayde acte, &s;uche and &s;o many lord|&s;hyps townes pari&s;&s;hees hamlettes hundredes commotes and cantredes, as his maie&s;tie by his mo&s;te highe wi&s;edome &s;hall thinke mo&s;te conuenient and agreable for the ea&s;e and commoditie of his louinge &s;ubiectes the inhabitan|tes of his &s;ayde dominion and principalitie.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Principalitie of Wales.</NOTE> And &s;hall lykewy&s;e haue power and auctoritie to name and a&s;&s;ygne the &s;hyre townes in euerye of the &s;ayde &s;hires named in the &s;ayde acte. And that euery &s;uche limitation apointment nomination and a&s;&s;ignement to be made by the kynges hyghnes in that be|halfe, by auctoritie of this acte, &s;hall be as good and effectuall to all intentes and purpo&s;es, as thoughe it had bene done and made playnely and particu|larly by auctoritie of parliament: any thyng conteyned in the &s;ayd acte, made in the la&s;t parliament, or any other thynge or thinges to the contrary therof notwith&s;tandyng.</P>
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<HEAD>&para;An acte repellyng the &s;tatute lately made for the bringing in of doulas and lokerams. Cap. iiii.</HEAD>
<P>_WHere in the parliament holden at We&s;tmin&s;ter the third daye of Nouember, in the .xxi. yere of the reigne of our &s;oueraygne lorde king Henry the .viii. amonge&s;t other thinges it was en|acted and e&s;tabli&s;hed, that no per&s;on nor per&s;ons, engli&s;he nor &s;traunger, deni&s;en or alien, from or after the fea&s;te of &s;aincte Mighel tharchangel than next folowyng, &s;huld bryng or con+uey, or cau&s;e to be conueied or brought by any maner of meanes into this re|alme of England, any linnen clothe, called doulas or lockerams,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Doulas and lockerams.</NOTE> on<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">es euery hole piece of doulas conteined in length fyue &s;core elles of a&s;&s;i&s;e, accompted to euery elle, one inche of a&s;&s;i&s;e, and in bredth one yarde of a&s;&s;i&s;e: And euery halfe piece fyfty elles in lengthe, and one yarde in bredth of lyke a&s;&s;i&s;e, and al the hole piece and half piece of one goodnes in making. And al&s;o it was there enacted and e&s;tably&s;hed, that euery hole piece of lockerams &s;hulde be of lyke length, as the hole piece of doulas: and euery halfe piece of lockerams &s;huld be of lyke length as the halfe piece of doulas: and euery &s;uch hole piece and halfe piece of lockerams to be in bredth a hole yarde, lackyng a nayle of the yarde: and euery piece and halfe piece to be in lyke goodnes by all the length of the &s;ame piece, vppon peyne of forfeyture of the &s;ame doulas and locke|rams &s;o to be brought or conueyed into this realme, not conteynyng the full lengthe bredth and goodnes, or the value therof, as in the &s;ame &s;tatute more playnely at large doth appere. Sithens the makyng of whiche acte a greate
<PB REF="5"> nombre of kinges &s;ubiectes, that is to &s;aye, weauers, tuckers, &s;pynners, dyers, and wulpikers, and many others haue bene ydell and without worke, to theyr great impouery&s;&s;hynge, whiche more and more is lyke dayly to en|creace, if remedy be not prouyded, for as moche as the clothemakers, whi|che before the makynge of the &s;ayde acte, were wonte to conuey theyr &s;ayde clothes into Britaine, where the &s;ayde lynnen clothe called doulas and loc|kerams is made, and from then&s;e to brynge with theym the &s;ayde lynnen clothe called doulas and lockeram, whiche they canne not doo &s;ythens the makynge of the &s;ayde acte, without daunger and forfayture of the &s;ayde lyn|nen clothe by rea&s;on that there &s;hall noo engli&s;he man be &s;uffered to carye or conuey any of the &s;ayde clothes, called doulas or lockerams, from the parties of beyonde the &s;ea into this realme of the length conteyned in the &s;ayde acte: whiche wyl make the &s;ayde cloth makers to leue the makynge of theyr cloth, to the greatte and manyfolde perylles of the kynges &s;ubiectes: Be it ther|fore enacted by the kynge oure &s;oueraygne lorde, with the a&s;&s;ente of the lor|des &s;pirituall and temporall, and the commons in this pre&s;ent parlyament a&s;&s;embled, and by the auctoritie of the &s;ame, that the &s;ayde acte, made in the &s;ayde .xxi. yere, be to all intentes pourpo&s;es and con&s;tructions in the lawe, made vtterly voyde and of none effecte, as yf this &s;ayde acte hadde neuer ben had nor made. Neuerthele&s;&s;e to the entent that the byers of the &s;ayde lynnen clothes, &s;hall not at any tyme hereafter be deceiued by the length of the &s;ayd clothes. Be it therfore enacted by the auctoritie afore &s;ayd, that after the fea&s;t of &s;ayncte Myghell the archangell nexte commynge, no maner of per&s;onne engly&s;&s;he nor &s;traunger, deny&s;en nor alyen, putte to &s;ale any hole piece or halfe piece of the &s;ayde lynnen clothe called doulas and lockerams, one le&s;&s;e there be mencion expre&s;&s;ed vppon euery of the &s;ayde hole piece or halfe piece of the &s;ayde lynnen clothe called doulas or lockeram, &s;o putte to &s;ale, as is afore&s;ayde, the hoole and entier noumbre of the yardes or elles, that is con|teyned in euerye &s;uche hole piece or halfe piece, vppon peyne of forfeyture of the &s;ame hole piece or halfe piece, not conteynynge the noumbre of yardes or elles, &s;o mencioned vpon euery of the &s;ayde hole piece or halfe piece, &s;o put to &s;ale as is afore &s;ayde. The one halfe of euery &s;uche forfayture to be to the kynge our &s;oueraygne lorde, and the other halfe to hym that &s;hall &s;ea&s;e and wyll &s;ue for the &s;ame by action of det, byl, plaint, information, or otherwy&s;e: in whiche action, &s;uite, or information, no wager of lawe nor e&s;&s;oyne &s;hall be admitted or allowed.</P>
<P>&para;Prouyded alwayes, that this acte or any thyng therin conteyned, be not preiudiciall ne hurtefull to any per&s;on or per&s;onnes, that before the fyr&s;t day of this parlyamente, hath made any &s;ea&s;er, or putte in any information, in to any of the kynges courtes, for any maner of forfayture, doone or commytted by any per&s;on or per&s;onnes, contrarye to the &s;ayde e&s;tatute, made in the &s;aide thyrde daye of Nouembre, the .xxi. yere of the reygne of our &s;oueraygne lorde kynge Henry the eyght.</P>
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<HEAD>&para;An acte for auoydinge of exactions taken vpon prentices in the cities boroughes and townes corporate. Cap. v.</HEAD>
<P>_WHere in the parliament begonne at London the third day of Nouembre, in the .xxi. yere of the reigne of our mo&s;te drad &s;oueraigne lorde king Henry the .viii. and from thens ad|iourned and proroged vnto we&s;tmin&s;ter, the .xvi. day of Ia+nuary, in the .xxii. yere of the reigne of our &s;aid &s;oueraigne lorde, and there then al&s;o holden. It was &amp; is recited, that where before that time it was e&s;tabli&s;hed &amp; enacted in the .xix. yere of our late &s;oueraigne lorde king Henry the .vii. that no mai&s;ter wardeynes and felow&s;hippe of craftes, or any of them, nor any rulers of the gyldes or fra|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ities &s;huld take vpon them to make any actes or ordinaunces, ne to ex+ecute any actes or ordinaunces by the~ before that time made, or then here|after to be made, in di&s;heritance or diminutio~ of y^e prerogatiue of the king, nor of other, nor again&s;t the co~mon profite of the people: but if the &s;ame actes or ordinaunces were examined or approued by the Chancellour, trea+&s;orer of England, or chief iu&s;tice of either bench, or thre of the~, or before the Iu&s;tices of a&s;&s;i&s;e in their circuite or progres, in y^e &s;hire where &s;uch actes or ordinaunces be made, vpon peyn of forfaiture of .xl. fi. for euery time that they do the contrary, as more plainely in the &s;aid acte doth appere.<NOTE PLACE="marg">wardenies of felow&s;hyps.</NOTE> Syth which tyme diuers wardens and felow&s;hips haue made actes &amp; ordinaun|ces, that euery prentice &s;huld pay at his fir&s;t entre in their common hall to the wardens of the &s;ame felow&s;hip,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Apprentice.</NOTE> &s;omme of them .xl. &s;. &s;ome .xxx. &s;. &s;ome xi. &s;. &s;ome .xiii. &s; .iiii. d. &s;ome .vi. &s; .viii. d. &s;om .iii. &s; .iiii. d. after their owne &s;i|ni&s;ter mindes and plea&s;ure, contrary to the meaning of the &s;aid act, made in the &s;aid .xix. yere of the reigne of the &s;aid late kinge Henry the .vii. and to the great hurte of the kinges true &s;ubiectes, putting their children to be prenti&s;es. It was therfore in the &s;aid parliament, holden at we&s;tmin&s;ter in the &s;aid .xxii. yere of the reigne of kyng Henry the .viii. e&s;tabli&s;hed and en|acted by the kinge our &s;oueraigne lord,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Fraternitie<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> by the adui&s;e of his lordes &s;piritu|all and temporall, and of the co~mons in the &s;ame parliament a&s;&s;embled, &amp; by the auctoritie of the &s;ame, that no mai&s;ter wardeines or felow&s;hips of craftes, or mai&s;ters, or any of them, nor any rulers of fraternities, &s;hulde take from then&s;forth of any prentice or of any other per&s;o~ or per&s;ons for y^e entre of any prentice into their &s;aid felow&s;hip, aboue the &s;ome of .ii. &s; .vi. d. nor for his entree whan his yeres and terme is expired and ended, aboue iii. &s; .iiii. d. vpon peyne of forfaiture of .xl. li. for euery time that they doo to the contrary, the one halfe to the kinge our &s;oueraigne lorde, and the o|ther halfe to the partie that therfore &s;hall &s;ue by action of dette informati|on or otherwi&s;e, and that in the action afore &s;aide no protection or e&s;&s;oyne &s;halbe allowed: As by the &s;ame act amonges other thinges therin contey+ned more playnely may appere. Sithen whiche &s;ayde &s;euerall actes e&s;ta|bli&s;&s;hed and made (as is afore &s;aide) diuers mai&s;ters wardeines and fe|low&s;hippes
<PB REF="6"> of craftes, haue by cautel and &s;ubtil meanes compa&s;&s;ed and practi&s;ed to defraude and delude the &s;aid good and hol&s;om &s;tatutes, cau|&s;inge dyuers prenti&s;es or yonge men immediatly after their yeres be expy|red, or that they be made free of their occupatio~ or felow&s;hip, to be &s;worne vpon the holy Euangeli&s;t at their fir&s;t entre, that they ne any of the~ after their yeres or terme expired, &s;hall not &s;et vp or open any &s;hoppe hou&s;e nor &s;ellar, nor occupie as freemen, without the a&s;&s;ent and licence of the mai&s;ter wardens or felow&s;hippes of their occupations, vpon peine of forfaitinge theyr freedome, or other like penaltie. By rea&s;on wherof the &s;aid prentices &amp; iourney men be put to as moch or more charges therby then they before time were put vnto for the obteininge and entering of their fredom, to the great hurt and impoueri&s;hement of the &s;aide prentices and iourney men, and other their frendes. For remedie wherof be it now, by the auctoritie of this pre&s;ent parliament e&s;tabli&s;&s;hed, ordeined, and enacted, that no may|&s;ter wardens or felow&s;hippes of craftes, nor any of them, nor any rulers of fraternities gildes or brotherhedes fro~ hen&s;forth co~pel or cau&s;e any pren|tice or iourney ma~ by oth or bond heretofore made or hereafter to be made, or otherwi&s;e, that he after his apprenti&s;hip or terme expired, &s;hall not &s;et vp nor kepe any &s;hop hou&s;e or &s;ellar,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iourney ma~.</NOTE> nor occupie as a free man without li|cence of the may&s;ter wardeines or felow&s;hip of his or their occupation, for and concerning the &s;ame, nor by any meane exact or take of any &s;uch pren|tice or iourney men, nor any other occupieng for them &s;elf, nor of any other per&s;ons for them, after his or their &s;aid yeres expired, any &s;um of money or other thinges for or concerning his or their fredome, or occupatio~, other wi&s;e or in any other maner the~ before is recited limitted &amp; appointed in the &s;aid former acte, made in the &s;aid .xxii. yere of the reigne of king Henry the viii. vpon the peyne to forfaite for euery time that they or any of them &s;hal offend contrary to this acte .xl.li. The one half therof to the king our &s;oue|rayne lorde, &amp; the other half to the partie that wil &s;ue for the &s;ame in any of the kinges courtes, by actio~ of det, informatio~, or otherwi&s;e: in which &s;uite or action no protectio~ nor e&s;&s;oine &s;halbe allowed for the partie defendant.</P>
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<DIV1 N="6" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>&para;An acte for continuance of the &s;tatutes for beggers &amp; vacabundes and again&s;t conueyaunce of hor&s;es and mares out of this realme, agein&s;t Wel&s;he men making affrayes in the counties of Herff. Glouc. and Salop~, and again&s;t the vice of buggery. Cap. vi.</HEAD>
<P>_WHere in the parliament begonne at London the third day of Nouembre, in the .xxi. yere of the reigne of our mo&s;t drad &s;oueraigne lorde king Henry the .viii. and from then&s;e ad|iourned to we&s;tmyn&s;ter, and there holden and continued by prorogation vnto the .xvi. day of Ianuarie in the .xxii. yere of our &s;aide &s;oueraine lord, it was then in that &s;e&s;&s;ion of the &s;aide parliament, an acte made and e&s;tabli&s;hed, declaring and concerning
<PB REF="6"> as well how aged, poore, and impotent per&s;onnes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Vagab<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> compelled to lyue by al|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">rs &s;houlde be ordered, as howe vacabundes and myghty &s;trong beggers &s;huld be whipped and puni&s;hed: whiche acte was then made to endure and continue vntyll the la&s;t daye of the nexte parliament. And where al&s;o in the &s;aid &s;e&s;&s;ion of the &s;ayd parliament, one other acte was made for the re&s;traint of carieng and conueyinge of hor&s;es and mares out of this realme,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Hor&s;es and mare<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> whiche acte was al&s;o made to continue and endure to the la&s;t daye of the nexte par|lyament, as by the &s;aid two &s;eueral actes more plainly appereth. And where al&s;o at the &s;ayde parliament continued and proroged vnto the thyrde day of Nouembre, in the .xxvi. yere of the reygne of our &s;ayde &s;oueraygne lorde, it was then in that &s;e&s;&s;ion of the &s;ayd parliament,<NOTE PLACE="marg">wel&s;hemen.</NOTE> an other acte made and e&s;ta|bly&s;hed, for puny&s;hement of wel&s;hemen, attemptynge a&s;&s;aultes or affrayes vpon any the inhabitauntes of Hereforde, Glouce&s;tre, Shrop&s;hyre, whi|che acte was al&s;o made to endure vnto the la&s;t day of the next parlyament, as by the &s;ayde acte more plainely appereth. And where al&s;o in the &s;ayd par|lyament, contynued and proroged vnto the .xv. daye of Ianuary, in the .xxv yere of our &s;ayde &s;oueraigne lord, it was then in that &s;e&s;&s;ion of the &s;ayd par|lyament one other acte made and e&s;tably&s;hed for puni&s;hement of the vyce of buggery, declarynge &s;uche offence to be felony,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Buggery.</NOTE> whyche acte was than al&s;o made to endure to the la&s;t daye of the next parlyament, as by the &s;ayde acte more plainely appereth. For as moche as the &s;ayde .iiii. &s;eueral actes be be|neficiall and profitable for the common weale of this realme, Be it therfore enacted by auctoritie of this pre&s;ent parliament, that the &s;aid .iiii. actes and euery of them, and al clau&s;es, articles, and proui&s;ions therin conteined, &s;hall from hen&s;forth be ob&s;erued and kept, and continue and endure vnto the la&s;t day of the nexte parlyament.</P>
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<DIV1 N="7" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>&para;An acte for the e&s;tably&s;hement of the &s;ucce&s;&s;ion of the impe|riall crowne of this realme. Capi. vii.</HEAD>
<P>_IN their mo&s;t humble wy&s;e &s;hewen to your mo&s;te royal maie|&s;tie, the lordes &s;piritual and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">mporal, and al other your lo|uynge and obedyente &s;ubiectes, the commons in this your mo&s;t high court of parliament a&s;&s;embled, that where in your la&s;te parliament, begonne and holden at London the thirde daye of Nouembre, in the .xxi. yere of your moo&s;te gracious reygne, and from thens adiorned to We&s;tm~, and there holden and contynu|ed by dyuers and &s;undry prorogations vnto the .xv. daye of Ianuary, in the xxv. yere of your moo&s;te noble reygne, and than there holden, It was made and ordeyned an acte concernynge amonges many thynges; as wel for rati|fication and confyrmation of your maryage,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lady Anne Boleine.</NOTE> than hadde and &s;olempny&s;ed betwene your hyghnes and the late lady Anne Boleyne Marques of Pem|broke, as for the lymittation of the &s;ucce&s;&s;io~ of your imperial crowne of this realme, to the i&s;&s;ue of your body begoten &amp; to be begoten of the body of the
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<PB REF="8"> &s;ayde ladye Anne, with diuers remaynder ouer for defaute of &s;uche i&s;&s;ue, as in the &s;aid acte playnely &amp; particularly more at large is expre&s;&s;ed and men|cioned.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Othe.</NOTE> And where al&s;o by the &s;ayde acte it was ordeyned and e&s;tably&s;&s;hed, that all and &s;yngular your &s;ubiectes &s;huld take a corporal othe for the ful|fyllynge, maynteynynge, and defendynge, the hole effectes and contentes of the &s;ayde acte. And it was further ordeyned by the &s;ayde acte amonges o|ther thinges, that if any per&s;on or per&s;onnes, &s;ubiecte or re&s;iant within this realme, or within any your gracis dominions, after the fyr&s;t daye of Maye than nexte en&s;uynge, by wrytynge, prynte, dede, or acte procured or dyd, or cau&s;ed to be procured or done any thyng or thynges to the preiudice, &s;clan|der, dy&s;turbance, or derogation of the &s;ayd matrymony, &s;olemni&s;ed bitwen your maie&s;tie and the &s;ayd lady Anne, or to the peryl, &s;claunder, or di&s;heri|&s;on of any the i&s;&s;ues and heyres of your hyghne&s;&s;e beynge lymytted by the &s;ame acte to inherite &amp; to be inheritable to the crowne of this realme, wher|by any &s;uche i&s;&s;ues or heires of your hyghnes myghte be de&s;troyed, di&s;tur|bed, or interrupted in bodye or title of inheritance to the crowne of this re|alme, as to them is lymytted in the &s;ame acte: that than euery &s;uche per|&s;on and per&s;onnes, and theyr aydours, coun&s;aylours, maynteynours, and abbettours, and euery of them, for euery &s;uche offence, &s;houlde be adiudged hyghe traytours, and that euery &s;uche offence, &s;huld be adiuged high trea|&s;on. And the offendours and their aydours, coun&s;aylours, maynteynours, and abettours, and euery of them, beynge lawefully conuycte of &s;uche of|fence by pre&s;entment, verdicte, confe&s;&s;ion, or proce&s;&s;e, according to the cu|&s;tomes and lawes of this realme, &s;hulde &s;uffre peynes of death, as in ca&s;es of hyghe trea&s;on: as in the &s;aid acte amonges many other articles, clau&s;es, and proui&s;ions, is more at large mencioned and &s;pecified.</P>
<P>&para;<HI>AND</HI> al&s;o in the &s;ayd parlyamente holden at We&s;tmyn&s;ter by proroga|tion in the thyrde daye of Nouembre, in the .xxvi. yere of your moo&s;te noble reygne, an other acte was made for declaration and ratification of the &s;ayd othe, whiche dyuers of your &s;ubiectes then hadde taken, and all your &s;ub|iectes after that were bounde to take for due ob&s;eruation of the &s;ayd acte of the &s;ayde Succe&s;&s;ion,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Succe&s;&s;ion.</NOTE> as by the &s;ame acte amonges other thinges is al&s;o &s;pecified and expre&s;&s;ed. And all be it mo&s;te dradde &s;oueraygne lorde, that the &s;ayde actes were thenne made, as it was then thoughte by your maie|&s;tie, nobles and commons, vpon a pure perfite and clere foundation, thin|kynge the &s;ayde mariage then had betwene your highnes and the &s;ayd lady Anne in theyr con&s;ciences to haue ben pure &s;incere perfite and good, and &s;o was reputed, accepted, and taken in the realme, tyll nowe of late, that god of his infinite goodnes (frome whom noo &s;ecrete thynges canne be hydde) hath cau&s;ed to be broughte to lyghte euidente and open knowledge, as well certayne, iu&s;te, trewe and lawefulle impedimentes vnknowen at the ma|kynge of the &s;ayde actes, and &s;ithen that time confe&s;&s;ed by the &s;ayde ladye Anne, before the moo&s;te reuerende father in god Thomas Archeby&s;&s;hoppe of Canturburye, Metropolytane and prymate of all Englande, &s;yttynge
<PB REF="8"> iudicially for the &s;ame: by the which plainely appereth, that the &s;aid mari|age betwene your grace and the &s;aid lady Anne, was neuer good nor co~&s;o|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ante to the lawes, but vtterly voyde and of none effecte. By rea&s;o~ wherof, your highnes was &amp; is laufully deuorced and &s;eperated from the bo~des of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e &s;aid mariage in the lyfe of the &s;aid ladye Anne. And this not with&s;tan|ding mo&s;te gracious &s;oueraine lord, the lady Eli&s;abeth your doughter, be|inge borne vnder the &s;aid vnlaufull mariage, by vertue and auctoritie of y^e acte of your &s;ucce&s;&s;io~ aboue reme~bred, for lacke of heires males of your bo|dy, &s;huld immediately &s;uccede as your lauful heire in y^e mo&s;t roial e&s;tate of your imperiall crowne of this realme, gain&s;t all honour equitie rea&s;on and good con&s;cience, if remedy &s;huld not be prouided for y^e &s;ame. And ouer this mo&s;t drad&s;ouerayne lorde, al be it that your maie&s;tie not knowing of any lauful impedime~tes, entered into y^e bondes of the &s;aid vnlauful mariage, &amp; auanced y^e &s;ame lady Anne to the honour of the &s;oueraine e&s;tate of quene of this realme: yet neuer the le&s;&s;e &s;he inflamed with pride &amp; carnal de&s;ires of her body, putting a part y^e drede of god and excellent benefites receiues of your highnes, confederated her &s;elfe w^t George Bolein late lord Roche|ford, her naturall brother, Henry Norreis e&s;quier, Fraunces we&s;ton knight William Brereton e&s;quier, gentillmen of your priuie chaumbre, &amp; Marke S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ton Grome of your &s;aid priuie chaumbre, &amp; &s;o being confederated, &s;he and they moo&s;te traiterou&s;ely co~mytted and parpetrated diuers dete&s;table and abhominable trea&s;ons, to the mo&s;te fearefull perill and daunger of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">truction of your mo&s;t roiall per&s;on, and to the vtter lo&s;&s;e di&s;heri&s;on and de&s;olation of this realm, if god of his goodnes had not in due tim brought theyr &s;aid trea&s;ons to light: for the which being palmely and manyfe&s;tely proued, they were conuicte &amp; atteinted by the due cour&s;e and order of your co~mon lawes of this realme, and haue &s;uffered accordynge to theyr mery|tts, as by the recordes therof more at large maye appere.</P>
<P>&para;And al be it mo&s;t gratious and mo&s;t dred &s;oueraine lorde, diuers &amp; &s;on|dry honourable iu&s;t true and re&s;onable clau&s;es be conteyned &amp; expre&s;&s;ed in the &s;aid act, made for the e&s;tabli&s;hement of your &s;ucce&s;&s;ion, which be verye nece&s;&s;ary and profitable for the common welthe of this realm: yet neuer y^e les bycau&s;e certaine articles &amp; clau&s;es conteined in the &s;ame, concerninge the ratification of your &s;aid vnlaufull mariage, betwene your highnes &amp; the &s;aid ladye Anne, and the limittation of your &s;ucce&s;&s;ion to the i&s;&s;ues of your body had by the &s;aide lady Anne, &amp; the othe expre&s;&s;ed and mentioned in bothe the actes aboue remembred, for the defending and maynteinynge the holle effectes and contentes of the &s;aide acte, whiche clau&s;es and arty|cles be nowe become of late &s;o di&s;honourable, and &s;oo far di&s;taunte from the due cour&s;e of your common lawes of your realme, and al&s;o &s;o moche a|gai&s;t good rea&s;on equitie and good con&s;cience, that they can not be &s;u&s;tei|ned nor tollerated to continue &amp; endure without greatte perill of dyui&s;ion hereafter to be hadde by occa&s;ion of the &s;ame, amo~ges vs your &s;aid moo&s;t humble louinge and obedient &s;ubiectes &amp; our po&s;terities. It may therfore
<PB REF="9"> plea&s;e your highnes of your mo&s;t excellent and accu&s;tomable goodnes, and for the entier loue fauour &amp; harty affection, that your maie&s;tie hath alwais borne and beareth to the co~mon welthe of this your realm, and for the con|&s;eruation of the good peace vnitie and re&s;te of vs your moo&s;te bounden, &amp; obediente &s;ubiectes, and of your &s;aid po&s;terities, that it maye be enacted by auctoritie of this pre&s;ent parlyamente, that the &s;aid two actes and euery of them, and al clau&s;es articles and proui&s;ions therin conteyned, from y^e fir&s;te daye of this pre&s;ent parliament, &s;hall be repealed, adnulled, and made fru|&s;trate, and of none effecte.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Repele.</NOTE>&para;Prouyded alwaye, that the &s;aide repeale and adnullaion of the &s;ayde acte, which was made for the e&s;tably&s;&s;hemente of your &s;ucce&s;&s;ion, &s;hall not be taken expounded nor vnder&s;tand, to di&s;charg any per&s;one or per&s;onnes, which haue done or committed any offences of trea&s;on, or mi&s;pri&s;ion of tre|&s;on, contrary to the &s;ame acte, or any parte therof, at any time afore y^e fir&s;te daie, of this pre&s;ente parliamente: but that &s;uche offences of trea&s;on and mi&s;pri&s;ion of trea&s;on, done and committed by any per&s;onne or per&s;onnes, contrary to the &s;ame acte, afore the fir&s;te daye of this pre&s;ent parliamente, &s;hall be and remaine in the &s;ame degree &amp; qualitie to be puni&s;&s;hed by auc|toritie of the &s;ame acte, as if the &s;ame acte hadde not ben repealed: the re|peale and adnullation of the &s;ame acte by auctoritie of this pre&s;ent parly|amente in any wy&s;e not with&s;tandinge. Neuer the la&s;&s;e the kynges mo&s;te royall maie&s;tie, moo&s;te gratiou&s;elye con&s;yderynge, that diuers and manye of his moo&s;te louynge and obedyente &s;ubiectes nowe lately afore the be|gynnynge of this pre&s;ente parlyamente, haue &s;poken, doone, practy&s;ed, procured, and attempted, as well by wordes wrytynge and pryntynge, as by exteriour actes, not onely again&s;t the &s;aid vnlawefull mariage, &s;olemp|ni&s;ed betwene his highne&s;&s;e and the &s;aide ladye Anne, and to the preiudice &s;claunder di&s;turbance and derogation therof, but al&s;o to y^e perill &s;claunder and di&s;hery&s;on of the ladye Ely&s;abeth the kynges daughter illegyttimate borne vnder the &s;ame mariage, and to the let di&s;turbaunce &amp; interruption of the &s;aid ladye Ely&s;abeth to the title of the crowne: and al&s;o to depriue y^e &s;aid lady Anne late Quene, and the &s;aid lady Ely&s;abeth, and euery of the~ of theyr dignitie title and name of theyr roiall e&s;tates, contrarye to the te|nours purportes proui&s;ions and ordynaunces, as well conteyned in the &s;aid acte made in the la&s;te parliament for the e&s;tabli&s;hement of the kinges &s;ucce&s;&s;ion, as in an other act made in the la&s;te parliament for puni&s;hement of trea&s;ons. Which wordes doynges practi&s;es procurementes &amp; attemp|tes of his &s;aid &s;ubiectes, all be it they proceded of no malyce, but vpo~ true and iu&s;te groundes, for puny&s;hement of the &s;aid late lady Anne, according to her de&s;ertes, and for reformation of the &s;aide vnlaufull mariage, for the &s;uretie of the kinges highne&s;&s;e, &amp; for the vnitie and welthe of this realme: yet neuerthele&s;&s;e the kinges &s;aid &s;ubiectes mought hereafter happen to be empeched troubled and vexed for &s;uch theyr wordes doinges actes procure+mentes and attemptes, as well by rea&s;on of the &s;aid e&s;tatute, made for the
<PB REF="9"> e&s;tably&s;hement of the kinges &s;ucce&s;&s;ion, and nowe repealed by this act, as by occa&s;ion of other &s;tatutes heretofore made for puni&s;hment of trea&s;o~ and mi&s;pri&s;ion of trea&s;on, to the greatte daunger and perylles of the liues lan|des and goodes of the kinges &s;ayde &s;ubiectes, which onely for harty good+will and faithefull obedience, that they beare to the kinges maie&s;tie, incur|red into the &s;ayd dangers and peryls: The kinges highnes thefore of his moo&s;t bountyfull mercy and benignitie is plea&s;ed and contented, that it be enacted by auctoritie of this pre&s;ente parliament, that all and &s;ingular his louynge &s;ubiectes, which haue &s;poken done practi&s;ed commited or attemp|ted, or procured to be done or attempted directely or indyrectely, by wordes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pardon.</NOTE> writinges, printes, or any exterior acte, any thinge or thynges what &s;o euer it be again&s;t the &s;aid mariage, &s;olempny&s;ed betwene his highne&s;&s;e and the &s;aide late Quene Anne, or for the &s;ettinge forthe or preferremente of the de|uorce or di&s;&s;olution therof: or again&s;t the &s;aid late quene Anne, or the &s;aid lady Eli&s;abeth, or to any of theyr &s;claunders perilles, or di&s;heri&s;o~s: or haue wi&s;hed willed or de&s;ired by wordes or writinges, or inue~ted imagined prac|ti&s;ed or attempted any bodily harme to the &s;aid late quene Anne, or lady E|lyzabeth, or to depriue the &s;ame late quene Anne, or ladye Elizabeth, or any of them, of the dignitie title or name of theyr royall e&s;tates, or haue &s;poken done or procured to be done any other wordes writi~ges printinges wi&s;hing willinge, thinge or thinges, acte or actes, again&s;t the &s;aide late quene Anne or lady Elizabeth, which is or moughte be demed or interpreted for trea&s;o~, or mi&s;pri&s;ion of trea&s;on by any con&s;truction vppon any of y^e &s;tatutes of this realme heretofore made, &s;hall be freely and clerely pardoned di&s;charged &amp; relea&s;ed by auctoritie of this act of al tho&s;e and &s;uch trea&s;ons, and mi&s;pri|&s;ions of trea&s;ons aboue mencioned. And that none of his &s;aid louing &s;ub|iectes for any of y^e &s;aid trea&s;ons or mi&s;pri&s;ions of trea&s;on aboue me~cioned and &s;pecified, &s;hal hereafter at any time, by any maner of meanes be empe|ched vexed or troubled in theyr bodies liues la~des goodes or cattalles, any thinge in this act, or in any acte or actes heretofore made for trea&s;ons or mi&s;pri&s;ons of trea&s;on, to the contrary therof not with&s;tandinge.</P>
<P>&para;And that it be further enacted by auctoritie afore &s;aide,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Atteinder of quene Anne, and other.</NOTE> that the &s;ayde late Queene Anne, George Boleyn, late lorde Rocheforde, Henry Norreis e&s;quier, Fraunces We&s;ton knight, William Brereto~ e&s;quier, and Marke Smeton, for theyr abhominable and dete&s;table trea&s;ons, by them and eue|ry of them moo&s;te abhominably and trayterou&s;ly committed and done a|gain&s;t your maie&s;tie &amp; the realme, &s;hal be by auctoritie of this pre&s;ent par|lyament conuicted and atteinted of high trea&s;on, in &s;uche maner &amp; fourme and accordingelye as they be, by the dewe cour&s;e and order of your lawes of this realme. And that the &s;aide late Queene Anne, George lord Roche|forde, Henry Norreis, Fraunces We&s;ton, William Brereton, and Marke Smeton, and euery of them, &s;hall lo&s;e and forfaite to your highenes and to your heires, al &s;uche theyr manours, mea&s;es, landes, tenementes, rentes, reuer&s;yons, remaynders, v&s;es, po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, offices, ryghtes, condycions,
<PB REF="10"> and all other hereditamentes, of what names natures or qualyties &s;o euer they be, which they or any of them, or any other to theyr v&s;es, or to the v&s;e of any of them had or ought to haue had of any e&s;tate of inheritau~ce in fee &s;ymple or in fee taile, in v&s;e or po&s;&s;e&s;&s;io~ at y^e daies of their &s;eueral trea&s;ons, co~mitted limitted and expre&s;&s;ed in theyr inditemente, or at any time after. Sauing to euery per&s;on &amp; per&s;ons, and bodies politike, and to the heires a&s;&s;ignes and &s;ucce&s;&s;ours of euery of them (other than to y^e &s;aid late Quene Anne, and the other traytours afore named: and theyr heires and a&s;&s;ignes of euery of them and all and euery other per&s;on &amp; per&s;ons claiming by the~ of or any of them, or to theyr v&s;es, or to the v&s;es of any of them, or to the v&s;e of any of theyr heires) all &s;uche right title v&s;e po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion intere&s;t condicion fees offices rentes annuites commons, and all other commodities and he|reditamentes, what &s;oo euer they or any of them moughte &s;hulde or ought to haue had, if this acte had neuer ben had ne made.</P>
<P>&para;And ouer this mo&s;te gracious &s;oueraigne lorde, for as moche as it hath plea&s;ed your moo&s;te roiall maie&s;tie, not with&s;tandinge the great and intol|lerable perils and occa&s;ions, which your highnes hath &s;uffered and &s;u&s;tei|ned, as wel by occa&s;ion of your fir&s;te vnlaweful mariage &s;olempni&s;ed be|twene your highne&s;&s;e and the lady Katheryne,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Princes Dowager</NOTE> late princes dowager, as by occa&s;ion of the &s;aide vnlafull mariage betwene your highnes and the &s;aid late queene Anne, at the mo&s;t humble petition and interce&s;&s;ion of vs your nobles of this realme, for the ardent loue and feruent affection, which your highnes beareth to the con&s;eruation of the peace and vnitie of the &s;ame, &amp; for the good and quiete gouernaunce therof, of your mo&s;t excellente good|nes to entre in to mariage againe, and haue cho&s;en &amp; taken a righte noble vertuous and excellent lady quene Iane to your trewe and lawefull wyfe,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Queene Iane.</NOTE> and haue laufully cellebrated and &s;olemni&s;ed mariage with her, according to the lawes of holy church: Who for her conuenient yeres, excellent beau|tie, and purene&s;&s;e of fle&s;&s;he and bloudde, is apte (god willinge) to conceiue i&s;&s;ue by your highne&s;&s;e: whiche mariage is &s;oo pure and &s;incere, withoute &s;potte doubte or impedime~t, that the i&s;&s;ue procreated vnder the &s;ame, whan it &s;hal plea&s;e almighty god to &s;end it, can not be laufully trewely nor iu&s;te|ly interrupted or di&s;turbed of the ryghte and title in the &s;ucce&s;&s;yon of your crowne: It maye therfore nowe plea&s;e your mo&s;te gratious maie&s;tie, at y^e moo&s;te humble petition and interce&s;&s;yon of vs your nobles and commo~s, a&s;&s;embled in this pre&s;ente parliamente, as well for the clere extingui&s;&s;he|ment of all ambyguities and doubtes, as for a pure and perfecte vnitie of vs your mo&s;te humble and obedient &s;ubiectes, and of all our po&s;teryties, that it maye be enacted by your mo&s;te gratious and roiall maie&s;tie, by con|&s;ent of vs y^e lordes &s;piritual and temporal, and the commons in this pre|&s;ent parliament a&s;&s;embled, and by auctoritie of the &s;ame in maner and for|me as hereafter in articles en&s;ueth.</P>
<P>&para;<HI>FYRSTE FOR AS MOCHE</HI> as the maryage here to fore &s;olemp|ni&s;ed betwene your hyghnes and the &s;aid lady Katharine, late prynces do|wager
<PB REF="10"> decea&s;ed, whiche afore was lawefull wyfe to your naturall brother prynce Arthur, and by hym carnally knowen, as hath duly bene proued by <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">fficient witne&s;&s;es, at al times was is and ought to be demed and determi|ned, to be again&s;t the lawes of almighty god, &amp; not di&s;pen&s;able by any hu|maine auctoritie, and &s;o hath be demed and determined, as well by the hole clergie of this realme, in both conuocations, and by bothe the vniuer&s;ities therof, as by the vniuer&s;ities of Bonony, Padua, Paris, Orleaunde, To|lowes, Angiew, and diuers other, &amp; al&s;o by a great nombre of priuate wry|tinges of many ryghte excellent well lerned men: Be it therfore enacted by auctoritie of this pre&s;ente parliamente, accordinge as it was ordeyned and enacted in the &s;aid acte made in the la&s;t parlyament for the e&s;tably&s;hement of your &s;ucce&s;&s;ion, that the &s;aid mariage heretofore hadde and &s;olempni&s;ed betwene your highne&s;&s;e and the &s;aid lady Katherine, which was before lau|full wyfe, to the &s;aid prince Arthur your elder brother, and by him carnally knowen, as doth dewely appere be &s;ufficient proue in a laufull proces had and made before the &s;aid mo&s;t reuerend father in god Thomas, by the &s;uf|feraunce of god archebi&s;&s;hoppe of Caunturburye, Metropolitane and pry|mate of all England, &s;hall be by auctoritie of this pre&s;ente parliament dif|finitiuely clerely and ab&s;olutely declared demed &amp; adiudged to be again&s;t the lawes of almighty god, and al&s;o accepted reputed and taken of no va|lue ne effect, but vtterly voide and adnichiled: And that the &s;eperation ther|of made by the &s;aid archebi&s;hoppe &s;hall be good and effectuall to all inten|tes and purpo&s;es, any licence, di&s;pen&s;ation, or any other acte or actes going before or en&s;uinge the &s;ame, or to the contrarie therof in any wi&s;e not with|&s;tandinge. And that euery &s;uche lycence, di&s;pen&s;ation, acte or actes, thynge or thinges, had made done or to be done to the contrary therof, &s;hal be to al intentes voide and of none effecte, and &s;o &s;hall be reputed and take~ by and amonges al vs your true &s;ubiectes and inhabitauntes, our heires and &s;uc|ce&s;&s;ours of and in your realme and dominions for euer. And that the i&s;&s;ue borne and procreated vnder the &s;ame vnlaufull mariage, made &amp; &s;olemni|&s;ed betwene your highnes and the &s;aid lady Katherine, &s;halbe take~ demed and accepted illegittimate to all intentes and pourpo&s;es, and &s;hal be vtter|ly forclo&s;ed excluded and barred to claime chalenge or demaunde any inhe|rytaunce as laufull heyre to your highne&s;&s;e by liniall di&s;&s;ent.</P>
<P>&para;And al&s;o for as moche as the mariage &s;olempni&s;ed, betwene your high|nes and the &s;aid late quene Anne vpo~ true and iu&s;te cau&s;es was and is de|med and adiudged by the &s;aid mo&s;t reuerende father, to be of noo value ne effecte, and a deuorce &amp; &s;eperation therof hadde and made by the due order and proce&s;&s;e of the lawes of the churche of Englande, before the &s;aid reue|rende father, Be it therfore enacted, by the auctoritie of this pre&s;ent parlia|me~t, y^t the &s;ame mariage betwene your highnes &amp; the &s;aid late quene Anne, &s;hall be taken reputed demed and adiudged to be of no force &s;trength ver|tue nor effecte: &amp; that the &s;eparation and deuorce therof had by the &s;ente~ce and iudgement of the &s;aid mo&s;t reuerende father, &s;hal be good &amp; effectuall,
<PB REF="11"> and &s;oo here after &s;hall be taken and reputed for euer by al your &s;ubiectes, theyr heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ours. And that none appeale repeale reuocation or adnullation therof, or any part of the &s;ame, &s;hall here after be hadde taken allowed or admitted in any behalfe. And that all the i&s;&s;ues and childrene borne and procreated vnder the &s;ame mariage betwene your highne&s;&s;e and the &s;aid late quene Anne, &s;hall be taken reputed and accepted to be illegit|timate to al intentes and purpo&s;es, and vtterly forclo&s;ed excluded and bar|red to clayme, challenge, or demaunde any inheritaunce as laufull heyre or heyres to your hyghnes by lyniall di&s;cent, the &s;ayd former acte made in the la&s;t parlyament, for the &s;tably&s;hement of your &s;ucce&s;&s;ion, or any thing ther|in contiyned, or any other thinge or thinges to the contrarye therof in any wy&s;e not with&s;tandynge.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Degrees of mariage pro|hybyted by goddes la|wes.</NOTE>&para;And further more &s;yns many inconueniences haue fallen, as wel within this realme as in others, by rea&s;on of marieng within the degrees of mari|age, prohibited by goddes lawes, that is to &s;ay, the &s;onne to marye the mo|ther, or the &s;tepmother carnally knowen by his father, the brother the &s;i&s;ter, the father his &s;onnes daughter, or his daughters daughter: or the &s;onne to marye the daugher of his father procreate and borne by his &s;tepmother: or the &s;on to mary his aunte, being his fathers or mothers &s;i&s;ter: or to mary his vncles wife carnally knowen by his vncle: or y^e father to mary his &s;o~|nes wyfe carnally knowen by his &s;on: or the brother to marye his brothers wyfe carnally knowen by his brother: or any man maryed, &amp; carnally kno|winge his wyfe, to marye his wyfes daughter, or his wifes &s;onnes daugh|ter, or his wyfes daughters daughter, or his wyfes &s;y&s;ter.</P>
<P>&para;And further to dilate and declare the meaning of the&s;e prohibitions, It is to be vnder&s;tand, that if it chaunce any man to knowe carnally any wo|man,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Prohibitio~s of mariage.</NOTE> that then all and &s;inguler per&s;onnes, beinge in any degree of con&s;an|guynitie or affinitie, as aboue wrytten, to any of the parties &s;o carnally of|fendinge, &s;hall be demed and adiudged to be within the ca&s;es and limittes of the &s;aid prohbiitions of maryage. All whiche mariages all be it they be playnely prohibite &amp; dete&s;ted by the lawes of god, yet neuertheles at &s;ome times they haue proceded vnder colours of di&s;pen&s;ations by mans power which is but v&s;urped, and of right oughte not to be graunted admitted ne, allowed. For no man, of what e&s;tate degree or condition &s;o euer he be, hath power to di&s;pence with goddes lawes, as all the clergye of this realme in the &s;aid conuocations, and the mo&s;te parte of all the vniuer&s;yties of chry|&s;tendome, and we al&s;o do affyrme and thynke.</P>
<P>&para; <HI>BEIT</HI> therfore enacted by auctorytie afore &s;ayde, accordynge as it is declared and conteined in the &s;aid acte, made in the la&s;t parliament for the e&s;tabli&s;hement of your &s;ucce&s;&s;ion, that no per&s;on or per&s;ons, &s;ubiectes or re|&s;yauntes of this realme, or in any your dominions, of what e&s;tate degree or dignitie &s;o euer they be, &s;hal from hen&s;eforth mary within y^e degrees afore reher&s;ed, what pretence &s;o euer &s;hall be made to the contrary therof. And in ca&s;e any per&s;on or per&s;ons, of what e&s;tate dignitie degree or condition &s;o e|uer
<PB REF="11"> they be, hath bene heretofore maryed within this realme, or in any other the kynges dominions, within any the degrees aboue reher&s;ed, and by any the archebi&s;hoppes or mini&s;ters of the church of England be &s;eparate from the bondes of &s;uch vnlaufull mariages: that then euery &s;uche &s;eperation &s;halbe good laufull fyrme and permanent for euer, &amp; not by any power au|ctoritie or meanes to be reuoked or vndone hereafter. And that the children proceding or procreate vnder &s;uch vnlauful maryage, &s;hal not be lauful ne legitimate: any foreyn lawes lycences di&s;pe~&s;ations, or other thing or thin|ges to the contrary therof not with&s;tandinge. And that in ca&s;e there be any per&s;on or per&s;ons within this realme, or in any the kinges dominions al re|dy maried within any of the &s;aid degrees aboue &s;pecified, and not yet &s;epe|rate from the bondes of &s;uch vnlaufull mariage, that then euery &s;uche per|&s;on, &s;o vnlaufully maried, &s;halbe &s;eperate by the diffinitiue &s;entence and iu|gement of the archebi&s;hops, bi&s;hops, and other mini&s;ters of the churche of Englande, and in other your dominions, within the limittes of their iuris|dictions &amp; auctorities, and by none other power or auctoritie. And that all &s;entences and iugementes giuen and to be giue~ by any archebi&s;hop bi&s;hop or other mini&s;ter of the church of Englande, or in any other the kinges do|minions, within the limittes of their iurisdictions and auctoritie, &s;hall be diffinitiue firme good and effectuall to all intentes, and be ob&s;erued, and o|beyed, without &s;uing any prouocations, appeles, prohibitions, or other pro|ce&s;&s;e, from or to the courte of Rome, to the derogation therof, or contrary to the acte made &s;ithen the beginninge of the la&s;t parliament for re&s;trainte of &s;uch prouocations, appeles, prohibitions, and other proce&s;&s;es.</P>
<P>&para;And al&s;o be it enacted by auctoritie afore &s;aid, that all the i&s;&s;ue hereafter to be had and procreate betwene your highnes, and your &s;aid mo&s;t dere and entierly beloued laufull wyfe Quene Iane, &s;hall be your laufull children &amp; heires, and be inheritable and inherite, accordinge to the cour&s;e of inheri|taunce and lawes of this realme, the imperiall crowne of the &s;ame, with all dignities, honours, preeminences, prerogatiues, auctorities, and iurisdicti|ons to the &s;ame annexed or belonging, in as large &amp; ample maner, as your highnes at this pre&s;ent time hath the &s;ame as king of this realme, the inhe+ritaunce therof to be and remayne to your &s;aid children and right heyres in maner and fourme as here after &s;halbe declared, That is to &s;ay.</P>
<P>&para;Fir&s;t the &s;aid imperiall crowne and other the premi&s;&s;es, &s;halbe to youre maie&s;tie and to your heires of your body laufully begoten, that is to &s;ay,<NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;tabli&s;&s;he|ment of the kynges high|ne&s;&s;e &s;ucce&s;&s;i|on.</NOTE> to the fir&s;t &s;onne of your body betwene your highnes and your &s;aide lawefull wyfe quene Iane begoten, &amp; to the heires of the body of the &s;ame fir&s;te &s;on laufully begoten. And for defaute of &s;uch heires, than to the &s;econde &s;onne of your body, and of the body of the &s;aid Quene Iane begoten, and to the heires of the body of the &s;ame &s;econde &s;onne laufully begoten, as afore&s;aid and &s;o to euery &s;onne of your body, and of the body of the &s;aid quene Iane begoten, and to the heires of the body of euery &s;uch &s;on begoten, according to the cour&s;e of inheritaunce in that behalfe.</P>
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<P>&para;And if it &s;hall happen your &s;aide mo&s;te dere and entierly beloued wife quene Iane to decea&s;e without i&s;&s;ue male of the body of your highnes to be begoten (which god defende) then the &s;ame imperial crowne, and all other the premi&s;&s;es to be to your maie&s;tie, as is afore &s;aid, and to the &s;onne and heire male of your body laufully begotten by any other laufull wife, and to the heires of the body of the &s;ame &s;onne &amp; heire male laufully begoten. And for defaute of &s;uch i&s;&s;ue, than to your &s;econd &s;onne of your bodye laufully begoten, and to the heyres of the body of the &s;ame &s;econd &s;onne laufully be+goten: and &s;o from &s;onne and heire male, to &s;onne and heire male, &amp; to the heires of the &s;euerall bodies of euery &s;uch &s;onne and heire male laufully be+goten, according to the cour&s;e of inheritaunce, in like maner and fourme, as is aboue &s;aid.</P>
<P>&para;And for defaute of &s;uch &s;onnes of your body lawfully begotten: and of the heires of the &s;euerall bodies of euery &s;uch &s;onne laufully begoten, that thenne the &s;aide imperiall crowne, and other the premi&s;&s;es, &s;hall be to the i&s;&s;ue female betwene your maie&s;tie and your &s;aide mo&s;te dere and entyer|ly beloued wyfe Queene Iane begoten: And for lacke of &s;uche i&s;&s;ue, than to the heires females of your body, laufully begotten by any other lawfull wyfe: that is to &s;aye: Fir&s;te to the elde&s;te i&s;&s;ue female, and to the heyres of her bodie laufully begotten, and &s;o from i&s;&s;ue female to i&s;&s;ue female, and to their heires of their bodies one after an other by cour&s;e of inheritaunce, according to their ages, as the crowne of Englande hath ben accu&s;tomed and ought to &s;uccede and go, in ca&s;e when there is heire female inheritable to the &s;ame.</P>
<P>&para;And for as moche as it &s;tandeth at this pre&s;ent time in the only plea&s;ure and wyll of almighty god, whether your maie&s;tie &s;hal haue heires begoten and procreated betwene your highnes and your &s;aid mo&s;t dere and entierly beloued wyfe quene Iane, orelles any laufull heires and i&s;&s;ues hereafter of your owne body begoten by any other laufull wife, and if &s;uch heires &s;huld fayle (as god defende) and no proui&s;ion made in your life, who &s;hulde rule and gouerne this realme for lacke of &s;uch heires: that then this realme af+ter your tran&s;itorie lyfe &s;hall be de&s;titute of a laufull gouernour: Or elles parca&s;e encombred with &s;uche a per&s;onne, that wolde couet to a&s;pire to the &s;ame, whome the &s;ubiectes of this realme &s;hall not fynde in their hartes to loue drede and obediently &s;erue as their &s;oueraigne lorde. And if your grace afore it maye be certaynely knowen, whether ye &s;hall haue heires or no, &s;hulde &s;odaynely name and declare any per&s;on or per&s;ones to &s;uccede after your decea&s;e, and for lacke of heyres of your body lawefully begotten, into the royall e&s;tate of the imperiall crowne of this realme: thanne it is to be doubted, that &s;uch per&s;on that &s;hulde be &s;o named, mought happen to take great harte and courage, and by pre&s;umption fal to inobedience &amp; rebellion by occa&s;ion of which premi&s;&s;es greate diui&s;ion and di&s;cention maye be and is very likely to ari&s;e and &s;pringe in this realme, to the greate peryl and di|&s;truction of vs your mo&s;te humble and obedyent &s;ubiectes, and of all oure
<PB REF="12"> po&s;terities, if remedie for the &s;ame &s;huld not be prouided. For reformation and remedie wherof, we your mo&s;te bounden and louynge &s;ubiectes, mo&s;t o|bediently knowleginge, that your maie&s;tie mo&s;t victoriou&s;ly prudently po|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">kely and indifferently hath maynteyned defended gouerned and ruled this realme, in good peace re&s;t quietnes &amp; obedience, during all the time of your mo&s;te gratious reigne, which we mo&s;t hartely de&s;ire moughte conti|nue for euer, puttinge all oure hole tru&s;te and confydence in youre highe|nes, and nothinge doubtynge, but that your maie&s;tie, if ye &s;houlde faylle heyres of your body laufully begotten (which god defend) for the harty loue and feruent affection, that ye beare to this realme, and for auoydinge all the occa&s;ions of diui&s;ion afore reher&s;ed, &s;o erne&s;tly mindeth the welth of the &s;ame, that ye can be&s;t and mo&s;te prudently prouide &s;uche a gouernour for vs and this your realme, as &s;hall and will &s;uccede and folowe in the iu&s;te and right trade of all your procedinges, and maynteyne kepe and defende the &s;ame, and all the lawes and ordinaunces e&s;tabli&s;&s;hed in your mo&s;t gra|tious tyme for the welth of this realme, which al we de&s;ire, wherby we your &s;aide mo&s;te louinge and obedient &s;ubiectes, and our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ours &s;hal and may liue, as nere as may be, in as good peace vnitie &amp; obedience af+ter your dece&s;&s;e, as we haue liued in the time of your mo&s;t gratious reigne, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">o therfore mo&s;t humbly be&s;eche your highnes, that it may be enacted, for auoyding of all ambiguities, doubtes deui&s;ions and occa&s;ions in that be|halfe, by your mo&s;te royall maie&s;tie, by the a&s;&s;ente of vs the lordes &s;piritual and temporall, and the co~mons in this your pre&s;ent parliament a&s;&s;embled, and by auctoritie of the &s;ame, that your highnes &s;hal haue full and plenar power and auctoritie, to giue di&s;po&s;e appoynte a&s;&s;igne declare and limitte by your letters patentes vnder your great &s;eale, or elles by your la&s;te wyll made in writinge, and a&s;&s;igned with your mo&s;t gratious hand, at your one|ly plea&s;ure from time to time, hereafter the imperial crowne of this realme and all other the premi&s;&s;es thervnto belonginge, to be remaine &s;uccede and come after your decea&s;e, and for lacke of laweful heyres of your body to be procreated and begotten as is afore limitted by this acte, to &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion and remaynder, as &s;hal plea&s;e your highnes, &amp; accor|dyng to &s;uch a&s;tate,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Letters pa|te<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> and after &s;uch maner fourme facion order and condici|on, as &s;halbe expre&s;&s;ed declared named and limitted in your &s;aid letters pa|tentes, or by your &s;aid la&s;te wyll. And we your mo&s;te humble and obedient &s;ubiectes do faithfully promi&s;e to your maie&s;tie by one co~mon a&s;&s;ent, that after your decea&s;&s;e &amp; for lacke of heires of your body laufully begotten, as is afore reher&s;ed, we our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ours &s;hall accepte and take, loue drede &s;erue and alonely obey &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons, males or females, as your maie&s;tie &s;hal giue your &s;aid imperial crown vnto by auctoritie of this act, and to none other, and holly to &s;ticke to them as true and faithfull &s;ub|iectes ought to do, to their regall rulers gouernours and &s;upreme heades.</P>
<P>&para;And for &s;ure corroboration therof be it further enacted by auctoritie a|fore &s;aide, that &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ones, as to whome it &s;hall plea&s;e your
<PB REF="13"> maie&s;tie to di&s;po&s;e limitte and a&s;&s;igne your &s;aid crowne, and other the pre|mi&s;&s;es therto apperteininge, by your letters patentes, or by your la&s;te wyll, as is afore&s;aide, &s;hall haue and enioye the &s;ame after your decea&s;e, and for lacke of heires of your bodie lawfully begotten, according to &s;uche a&s;tate, and after &s;uch maner fourme facion order and condition, as &s;halbe therof expre&s;&s;ed mentioned and conteyned in your &s;aid letters patentes, or in your &s;aid la&s;t will, in as large and ample maner, as if &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons had be your laufull heires to the imperiall crowne of this realme, and as if the &s;ame crowne of this realme had be giuen and limitted to them plainely and particularly by &s;pecial names and &s;ufficient termes and wordes by the full and immediate auctoritie of this your mo&s;t high court of parliament.</P>
<P>&para;And it is further enacted by auctoritie afore&s;aid, that if any of your hey+res or children hereafter doo v&s;urpe the one of them vppon the other in the crowne of this realme, or clayme or chalenge your &s;aid imperiall crowne in any other fourme or degree of di&s;cente or &s;ucce&s;&s;ion then is afore lymytted by this act: Or if any per&s;on or per&s;ons, to whom it &s;hal plea&s;e your high|nes of your moo&s;te excellent goodnes, by auctoritie of this acte to giue and di&s;po&s;e your &s;aid crowne and dignitie of this realme, or the heires of any of them, do at any time hereafter demaunde chalenge or clayme your &s;aide crowne of this realme, other wy&s;e or in any other cour&s;e fourme degree or condition, then the &s;ame &s;hall be giuen di&s;po&s;ed and limitted vnto them by your highnes, by vertue and auctoritie of this acte. Or if any &s;uch per&s;one or per&s;ones, to whom your maie&s;tie &s;hal hereafter giue or di&s;po&s;e your &s;aid crowne by auctoritie of this acte, or any of their heires, do interrupte or let any of the heires of your maie&s;tie, that is or &s;halbe begoten, borne, &amp; procre|ated vnder your laufull pure &s;incere and vndouted mariage nowe had and &s;olempni&s;ed betwene your highnes and your &s;aid mo&s;te dere and entierly beloued wife quene Iane, or any other your laufull heyres here after to be begoten of your body by any other laufull mariage, pea&s;ably &amp; quietly to kepe haue and enioye the &s;aide imperiall crowne, and other the premy&s;|&s;es, by cour&s;e of inheritaunce according to the limitation therof, expre&s;&s;ed and declared by this acte, that then all &amp; &s;ingular the offendours in any of the premi&s;&s;es contrary to this acte,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Trea&s;on.</NOTE> &amp; all their abbetours mainteinours fau|tours coun&s;aylours and aydours therin, &s;halbe demed and adiudged high traytours to the realme. And that euery &s;uch offence &s;hall be accepted repu|ted and taken to be high trea&s;on, and the offendours therin, their aidours maynteinours fautours con&s;aylours and abettours and euery of them, for euery &s;uch offence &s;hal &s;uffre &s;uch iudgement and peines of death, lo&s;&s;es &amp; forfaitures of landes goodes and priuileges of &s;ainctuary, as in any ca&s;es of highe trea&s;on. And ouer that as well your &s;ayde heires and children, as euery &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons, to whom your highne&s;&s;e &s;hall limitte youre &s;aid crowne, in fourme as is afore&s;aide, and euery of theyr heyres for euery &s;uche offence aboue &s;pecified, by them or any of them, to be committed, &s;hal lo&s;e and forfaite as well all &s;uche righte title and intere&s;te, that they maye
<PB REF="13"> clayme or challenge in or to the crowne of this realme, as heires by di&s;cent, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> by rea&s;on of any gifte or act that &s;halbe done by your highnes, for his or their aduauncement, by auctoritie of this acte, or other wy&s;e by any maner of meanes or pretence what &s;o euer it be.</P>
<P>&para;And be it further enacted by auctoritie afore&s;aide, that if any per&s;on or per&s;ons, of what a&s;tate degree dignitie or condition &s;o euer they be, at any <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> hereafter, by wordes writinge imprintinge, or by any exterior acte or dede, maliciou&s;ly or willingly procure, or do or cau&s;e to be procured or done directly or indirectly, any thinge or thinges, to the perill of your mo&s;te roy|all per&s;on, or to the perill of the per&s;on of any your heires or &s;ucce&s;&s;ours ha|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters">ng the royall e&s;tate of the crowne of this realme: or maliciou&s;ly or wyl|lingly giue occa&s;ion by wordes writing print deede or acte, wherby youre highnes or any your &s;aide heires or &s;ucce&s;&s;ours, hauyng the royall e&s;tate of the crown of this realme, might be di&s;turbed or interrupted of the crown of this realme: Or by wordes writing print dede or act procure or do, or cau&s;e to be procured or done any thing or thinges, to or for the interruptio~ repele or adnullation of this acte, or of any thing therin conteined, or of any thing that &s;hall be done by your highnes in the limittation and di&s;potion of your crowne by auctoritie of y^e &s;ame. Or by wordes writing print dede or act pro|cure or cau&s;e to be procured or done any thing or thinges, to the preiudice &s;clander di&s;turbance or derogation of the &s;aid laufull matrimony, &s;olemp|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters">i&s;ed betwene your maie&s;tie and the &s;aid quene Iane, or any other your lau+ful wife or wiues hereafter by your highnes to be taken: Or to y^e peril &s;clan+der or di&s;heri&s;on of any of the i&s;&s;ues and heires of your highnes, being ly|mitted by this acte to enherite, and to be inheritable to the crown of this re|alme, in &s;uch forme as is afore&s;aid: Or to the interruption or di&s;heri&s;on of any &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons, to whom your highnes &s;hal a&s;&s;igne and di&s;po&s;e your &s;aid imperiall crowne by auctoritie of this act, as is afore remembred: wherby any &s;uch i&s;&s;ues or heires of your highnes, or &s;uch other per&s;o~ or &abper;|&s;o~s, might be di&s;troied di&s;turbed or interrupted in fame body or title of the inheritance to the crowne of this realme, as to them is limitted in this act, informe aboue reher&s;ed, or as to them &s;halbe limitted and a&s;&s;igned by your highnes, by vertue &amp; auctoritie of this acte. Or if any per&s;on or per&s;ons by wordes writinge imprinting or any other exteriour acte directly or indirect|ly accepte or take, iudge or beleue any of the mariages had &amp; &s;olempni&s;ed betwene the kinges highnes and the &s;aid lady Katharine, or betwene the kinges highne&s;&s;e and the &s;aid late quene Anne, to be good lauful or of any effect. Or by wordes writing printinge or any other exterior acte directly or indirectly, &s;clander interrupte empeche gayn&s;aye or impugne the lawefull iudgementes and &s;entences of the &s;aid mo&s;t reuerende father in god, Tho|mas archebi&s;hop of Canturbury and primate of all England, for and con|cerning the deuorces and &s;eparations of the &s;aide vnlaufull maryages or any of them. Or by wordes writinge print or any other exterior acte directly or indirectly, take, accepte, name, or cal by any pretence any of the children
<PB REF="14"> borne and procreated vnder any of the &s;aide vnlauful mariages, to be legit|timate and lauful children of your maie&s;ty. Or if any per&s;on or per&s;ons craf+tely ymagine inuente or attempt by colour of any pretence to depriue the kinges highnes, the quene, or the heires of their bodies begotten, or any o|ther the heires of the kinges body laufully begotten, or any per&s;on or per|&s;ons, to whom the kinges highnes &s;hall di&s;po&s;e giue and limit the crowne of this realme, by auctoritie of this acte, of any of their titles &s;tiles names degrees or royal e&s;tates or regall power. Or if any per&s;on or per&s;ons at any time hereafter, being required or co~maunded by the kinges highnes, or by &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons, as &s;halbe auctori&s;ed by his grace or his laufull hei|res to make or take an othe, to an&s;were to &s;uch que&s;tions and interrogato|ries, as &s;halbe obiected to them, vpon any clau&s;e, article, &s;entence or worde, conteined in this acte, do contemptuou&s;ly or vtterly refu&s;e to make or take &s;uch oth, or without fru&s;tratorie delay do not make or take the &s;ame oth: or after the making or taking &s;uch othe, do contemptuou&s;ly refu&s;e directly to an&s;were to &s;uch que&s;tions and interrogatories, as &s;hall be obiected con|cerninge the &s;ame or any part therof: that then euery &s;uch per&s;on and per|&s;ones, of what a&s;tate degree or condition &s;o euer he or they be, and their ay|dours, coun&s;ayllours, maynteynours and abettours, and euery of them, for euery &s;uch offence afore declared,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Trea&s;on.</NOTE> &s;halbe adiudged highe traytours. And that euery &s;uch offence afore e&s;pecified, &s;halbe adiudged high trea&s;on, and the offendours therin and their aidours coun&s;ailours mainteinours and a+bettours, and euery of them beinge laufully conuict of any &s;uch offence by pre&s;entment verdite confe&s;&s;ion or proce&s;&s;e, according to the cu&s;tom &amp; lawes of this realme, &s;hal &s;uffre peynes of deathe, as in ca&s;es of high trea&s;on. And that al&s;o euery &s;uch offendour, being conuicte as is afore&s;aid, &s;hal lo&s;e and forfaite to your highnes, and to your heires or &s;ucce&s;&s;ours kynges or regal rulers of this realme, all &s;uch manours landes tenementes rentes annui|ties and hereditamentes, which they had in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion as owners, or were &s;ole &s;ea&s;ed of by or in any right title or meanes, or any other per&s;o~ or per&s;o~s had to their v&s;e of any e&s;tate of enheritance, at the day of &s;uch trea&s;ons &amp; offences by them committed and done. And &s;hal al&s;o lo&s;e &amp; forfaite to your highnes and your &s;aid heires, as well all maner &s;uche e&s;tates of freeholde and intere&s;t for yeres of landes and rentes, as all other goodes cattalles &amp; dettes, which they had at the time of their conuiction or atteinder, of any &s;uch offence: Sauynge alway to euery &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons and bo|dies politike, to their heires a&s;&s;ignes and &s;ucce&s;&s;ours, and to the heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ours of euery of them (other then &s;uch per&s;ons as &s;hall be &s;o conuicte or atteinted, and their heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ours, and all other clayminge to their v&s;es) all &s;uche righte, title, v&s;e, intere&s;t, po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, condition, rentes, fees, offices, annuities, and commens, which they or any of them &s;hall haue in or vpon any &s;uch manours landes tenementes rentes annuities or here|ditamentes, that &s;hall &s;o happen to be lo&s;t and forfaite by rea&s;on of any con+uiction or atteynder, for any the trea&s;ons &amp; offences aboue reher&s;ed, at any
<PB REF="14"> time before the &s;aid trea&s;ons and offences committed.</P>
<P>&para;Be it al&s;o enacted by auctoritie afor&s;aid, that no per&s;on or per&s;o~s, offen+ding in any the trea&s;ons conteined and limitted by this act, or in any other trea&s;ons, &s;hal in any wi&s;e haue and inioy the priuilege or immunitie of any maner &s;ainctuarie within this realme, or els where, within any the kinges dominio~s: but &s;hal vtterly lo&s;e, and be excluded of the &s;ame: any v&s;e, grant,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sainctuary.</NOTE> cu&s;tome, pre&s;cription, confirmation, or any other thinge or thinges to the contrary hereof in any wi&s;e not with&s;tandinge.</P>
<P>&para;And be it al&s;o enacted by auctoritie afore&s;aid, that if your maie&s;tie &s;hall happen to decea&s;&s;e before any &s;uch your i&s;&s;ue and heire male of your body, which &s;huld inherite the crowne of this realme, &s;halbe of his age of .xviii. yeres, or before that &s;uche your i&s;&s;ue and heire female, whiche &s;hulde inhe|rite the crowne of this realme, &s;halbe maried, or be of the age of .xvi. yeres, whiche almyghty god defend) that than the &s;aid i&s;&s;ue and heire male to the crowne, &s;o beinge within the age of .xviii. yeres, or your &s;aid i&s;&s;ue and heire female to the crowne, &s;o beinge vnmaried, or within the &s;aid age of .xvi. ye|res, &s;hall be and remayne, vntyll &s;uche time as &s;uch i&s;&s;ues and heyres &s;hall come to their &s;aid &s;euerall ages afore limitted, at and in the gouernance of their naturall mother, and of &s;uche other your coun&s;aylours and nobles of your realme, as your highnes &s;hall limitte and appoynt by your la&s;te wyll made in writynge, &s;ygned with your moo&s;te gracyous hande, yf it &s;hall be thought by your highnes mo&s;te conuenyent &s;oo to be: or elles the &s;ayd y&s;|&s;ues and heyres &s;hall be at and in the gouernaunce of &s;uche of your coun|&s;aylours and nobles of youre realme, as your maie&s;tie &s;hall name and ap|poynt by your la&s;t wyll made in writynge, and &s;igned with your mo&s;t gra|cyous hande, as is afore&s;aide. And if any per&s;on or per&s;ons, by wrytynge,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Trea&s;on.</NOTE> printing, or exterior dede or act, directly or indirectly, procure or do, or cau&s;e to be procured or done, any thinge or thinges, to the lette or di&s;tourbance of the &s;ame: that than euery &s;uch offence &s;hall be high trea&s;on, and the offen|dours beinge therof conuicted, &s;hall &s;uffre &s;uch peynes of deathe and lo&s;&s;e of inheritaunce, priuileges of &s;ainctuaries, freeholdes, intere&s;tes for yeres, goodes, cattalles, and dettes, in &s;uch maner and fourme as is aboue &s;peci|fied in ca&s;es of trea&s;on afore mencioned.</P>
<P>&para;<HI>AND</HI> for the more &s;ure e&s;tabli&s;hment of the &s;ucce&s;&s;io~ of your mo&s;t roi|all maie&s;tie, accordinge to the tenour and fourme of this acte, Be it further enacted by auctorytie afore&s;ayde, that as welle all the nobles of your re|alme &s;pirituall and temporall, as all other your &s;ubiectes nowe liuing and beinge, or that hereafter &s;hall be at their full ages, by the commaundement of your maie&s;tie, or of your heires or &s;ucce&s;&s;ours,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Othe.</NOTE> at al times hereafter from time to time wha~ it &s;hal plea&s;e your highnes, or your heires or &s;ucce&s;&s;ours to apoynt, &s;hal make a corporal othe in y^e pre&s;ence of your highnes, or your heires or &s;ucce&s;&s;ours, or before &s;uch other as your maie&s;tie, or your heires or &s;ucce&s;&s;ours will a&s;&s;igne for y^e &s;ame, for the kepinge ob&s;eruing defending auowynge and maynteynynge of this acte, and of all thinges that &s;hall be
<PB REF="15"> done by your hyghnes by auctoritie therof, accordinge to the tenour of an othe hereafter en&s;uinge, That is to &s;ay: Ye &s;hal &s;were, to beare faith truthe and obedience all onely to the kinges maie&s;tie, &s;upreme heed in erthe vnder god of the churche of Englande, durynge his lyfe, and to his heires of his body of his mo&s;t diere and entierly beloued lauful wife quene Iane, bego|ten and to be begoten and procreated: And further to the heires of our &s;aid &s;oueraigne lorde, according to the limittation in the &s;tatute made for &s;ure|tie of his &s;ucce&s;&s;ion in the crown of this realme, in the parliament begonne and holden at We&s;tmin&s;ter in the .viii. daye of Iune, in the .xxviii. yere of the kinges mo&s;t gratious reigne. And al&s;o for lacke of &s;uch heires, to &s;uch per&s;on &amp; per&s;ons as the kinges highnes &s;hall limitte and appoint to &s;uc|cede to y^e crown, by vertue &amp; auctoritie of the &s;ame act, and not to any other within this realm, nor foreine auctoritie power or potentate. And in ca&s;e a|ny other othe be made, or hath be made by you to any per&s;on or per&s;ons: y^t then ye to repute the &s;ame as vayne &amp; adnichilate. And that to your coun|ninge writte and vttermoo&s;te of your power, without gyle, fraude, or other vndewe maner, ye &s;hall ob&s;erue kepe maynteine and defende the &s;aide acte of &s;ucce&s;&s;ion made in the &s;aide parliament, begon and holden at we&s;tmyn|&s;ter in the &s;aid .viii. day of Iune, in the &s;aide .xxviii. yere of the kinges mo&s;t roiall reigne, and al the holle effectes and contentes therof, and al thinges that &s;hall be done by the kinges highnes by auctoritie of the &s;ame, and all other actes and &s;tatutes made in confirmation or for executio~ of y^e &s;ame, or of any thing therin conteined: and this ye &s;hal do again&s;t al maner of per|&s;o~s, of what e&s;tate dignitie degree or condition &s;o <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">uer they be: &amp; in no wi&s;e do or attempte, nor to your power &s;uffre to be done or attempted directlie or indirectly any thing or thinges priuily or appertely, to the let hinderaunce damage or derogation therof, or of any parte of the &s;ame, or of any thynge or thinges, that &s;hal be done by the kinges highne&s;&s;e, by vertue or auctori|tie of the &s;aid act, by any maner of meanes, or for any maner of pretence, &s;o helpe you god, al &s;aintes, and the holy Euangeli&s;tis.</P>
<P>&para;And it is al&s;o enacted by auctoritie afore &s;aide, that all maner your &s;ub|iectes, as well &s;pirytuall as temporall, &s;uynge lyuerey, or ou&s;ter le mayne, out of the handes of your highne&s;&s;e, or of your heires or &s;ucce&s;&s;ours, or do|ynge any feyltie to your highne&s;&s;e, or to your heires or &s;ucce&s;&s;ours, by rea|&s;on of tenure of theyr landes, &s;hall &s;were the &s;aide corporall Othe aboue mencyoned. And that they nor any of theym, &s;hall here after haue any ly|uereys, ou&s;tre le mayne, or re&s;tytution out of your handes, nor oute of the handes of your heyres or &s;ucce&s;&s;ours, tylle they &s;hall haue made the &s;aide corporall Othe, in fourme aboue reher&s;ed. And if any per&s;on or per&s;ones, beynge commaunded by auctorytye of this acte, to make the &s;ayde Othe afore lymytted, ob&s;tynately or wylfullye refu&s;e that to doo, or wyll prote&s;te and &s;aye, whan they &s;hall be examyned vpon any interrogatories, that &s;hal be obiected to theym, for or concernynge this acte, or any thyng therin con|teined,
<PB REF="15"> that they be not bounde to declare their thought and con&s;cience, and &s;tyffely theron abyde: that then euery &s;uche per&s;onne &s;oo doynge, for euery &s;uche offence &s;hall be taken and accepted for offendour in hyghe trea&s;on.</P>
<P>And that euery &s;uche refu&s;ell &s;hall be demed and adiudged highe trea&s;on,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Trea&s;on.</NOTE> and the offendour therin, beinge as afore is limitted, lawefullye conuicted or attemted therof, by the lawes of this realme, &s;hall &s;uffre &s;uche peines of death lo&s;&s;es and forfaitures, and al&s;o lo&s;e priuileges of &s;aintuaries, in like maner and fourme as is aboue mentioned, for the trea&s;ons afore limitted by this acte.</P>
<P>&para;And be it further enacted by auctoritie of this pre&s;ent parliamente, that if it &s;hall plea&s;e the kynges maie&s;tie at any tyme here after, by his letters patentes vnder his greate &s;eale, or by his la&s;te wyll made in wrytinge,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Letters pa|tentes.</NOTE> and ligned with his mo&s;t gratious hande, to auaunce any per&s;on or per&s;ons of his mo&s;t royall bloud to any title &s;tyle or name, of any e&s;tate dignitie or ho|nour, what &s;o euer it be, and to gyue to them or to any of them any ca&s;telles honours manours landes teneme~tes liberties fra~che&s;es, or other heredita|mentes, in fee &s;ymple fee tayle or for terme of theyr lyues, or y^e life of any of them: that then al and euery &s;uch letters patentes and la&s;t wyl of his high|nes, &s;o to be made to any &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ones of his blode, &s;hal be good and effectuall to them and euery of them, according to the tenour purpor|&s;es and effectes of euerye &s;uch letters patentes and la&s;te will. And that the &s;aid per&s;one and per&s;ones, and euery of them, &s;hall haue and enioy as well all &s;uche titles &s;tyle and names of honour dignitie and e&s;tate, whiche &s;hall be conteyned, and expre&s;&s;ed in any &s;uch letters patentes or la&s;te wyll of the kynges hyghnes, as &s;uche ca&s;telles honours manours landes tenementes lyberties franche&s;es, and all other hereditamentes, whiche &s;hall be &s;pecify|ed and mencyoned in euery &s;uch letters patentes or la&s;t will in &s;uch maner fourme fation and condicion, and according to &s;uch e&s;tate or e&s;tates in the lawe, as &s;halbe expre&s;&s;ed and limitted in euery &s;uche letters patentes or la&s;t wyll, in as large and ample maner, to all intentes and purpo&s;es, as if the titles &s;tyles and names of honour dygnitie and e&s;tate, and the ca&s;telles ho|nours manours landes tenementes lyberties franche&s;es and other heredi|tamentes, whiche &s;hall be compry&s;ed in any &s;uch letters patentes or la&s;te wyll to be made, were all redye yeuen by good &amp; &s;ufficient letters patentes to &s;uche per&s;onne or per&s;ons, of the kynges blode by theyr &s;peciall names and &s;urnames, and ratyfyed and confyrmed by auctoritie of this pre&s;ente parlyame~te. Or as if the names of &s;uche per&s;onne and per&s;onnes, &s;oo be|yng of the kinges bloudde, and &s;uch titles &s;tiles names ca&s;telles honours manours landes tenementes lyberties franche&s;es or other hereditamen|tes, hadde ben &s;pecyally named and expre&s;&s;ed in this acte, and gyuen to &s;u|che per&s;on and per&s;onnes of the kinges bloude by theyr propre names and &s;urnames, by &s;ufficient wordes termes clau&s;es &amp; &s;entences, immediatly by auctoritie of this pre&s;ent parliament. Sauinge to al and euery per&s;on and per&s;ons and bodyes politike, and to theyr heyres a&s;&s;ignes and &s;ucce&s;&s;ours
<PB REF="16"> other than to the kinges highnes, his heyres or &s;ucce&s;&s;ours, al &s;uch ryghte title intere&s;t po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion rentes annulties fees offices comens rightes intere|&s;tes petitions condicions, &amp; all other hereditamentes, which they or any of them may or mought claime of in or to any the &s;aid titles &s;tiles names, ca|&s;telles honours manours landes tenementes liberties fra~che&s;es and other heredytamentes conteyned or mentioned in any &s;uche letters patentes or la&s;te wyll, in as large and ample maner, as if this acte hadde neuer be had nor made.</P>
<P>&para;<HI>AND BE</HI> it fynally enacted by auctoritie afore &s;aid, that this pre&s;ente acte, and euery clau&s;e article and &s;entence compri&s;ed in the &s;ame &s;hal be ta|ken, and accepted, according to the plaine wordes and &s;entences therin con+teined, and &s;hall not be interpreted nor expounded by colour of any prete~&s;e or cau&s;e, or by any &s;ubtill argumentes inuentions or rea&s;ons, to the hynde|rance di&s;turbance or derogation of this act, or any part therof: Any thing or thinges acte or actes of parlyament here to fore made, or here after to be had done or made to the contrary therof not with&s;tanding. And that euery acte &s;tatute lawe proui&s;ion thinge and thinges heretofore had or made, or here after to be hadde done or made, contrary to the effecte of this &s;tatute, &s;hall be voyde and of no value nor force.</P>
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<DIV1 N="8" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>&para; An acte for continuaunce of the &s;tatutes again&s;te the caryage of bra&s;&s;e latenne and coper out of this realme, And for making of cables and ropes: for the wyndynge of wolles, &amp; agayn&s;t kyllynge of weynelynges vnder the age of two yeres. Cap. viii.</HEAD>
<P>_WHere in the la&s;te parlyamente begonne and holden at Lon|don the thyrde daye of Nouember, in the .xxi. yere of the kin|ges mo&s;t gratious reigne, &amp; frome thens adiorned to we&s;t|min&s;ter, and there holden and continued by diuers proroga|tions, vntyl the di&s;&s;olution therof, it was ordeined and e&s;ta|bli&s;hed amonge&s;t other thinges one acte for re&s;trayning the caryages of bra&s;&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Bra&s;&s;e, laten and copper.</NOTE> latten, and coper out of this realme: And al&s;o one other acte was made in this parliament for the trewe makinge of cables hal&s;ers and ropes:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cables, hal|&s;ers ropes. wynding of wolles. Kyllynge of weinlynges.</NOTE> One other acte for the trewe windinge of wolles: and one other act to re&s;traine killing of weinelinges bullockes &s;teres or he&s;ter, being vn|der the age of two yeres. All whiche foure &s;euerall actes were made to con|tinue and endure to the nexte parliament, as by the &s;aid actes more plainly appereth. For as moch as the &s;aid &s;euerall actes, and euery of them, be ne|ce&s;&s;ary for the common welth of this realm, be it therfore enacted by aucto|ritie of this pre&s;ente parliament, that the &s;aid foure &s;euerall actes, and all clau&s;es articles and proui&s;ions therin conteyned, &s;hall from hen&s;forthe be and &s;tande good and effectuall, and to endure and contynue vntyll the la&s;te daye of the nexte parlyament.</P>
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<DIV1 N="9" TYPE="chapter">
<PB REF="16">
<HEAD>&para;In act for continuance of the &s;tatutes of petiurie, for making of iayles, for pewteres, and for &s;owynge of flaxe and hempe. Cap. ix.</HEAD>
<P>_WHere in the parliament begonne and holden at London the thirde day of Nouembre, &amp; from then&s;e adiourned to we&s;t|min&s;ter, and there holden and continued by prorogatio~ vn|to the .xv. day of Ianuarie, in the .xxiii. yere of the reigne of our mo&s;te dradde &s;oueraigne lorde kynge Henry the .viii.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Atteynt. Periury. Iayle.</NOTE> it was then in that &s;e&s;&s;io~ of the &s;aid parliament one act made and e&s;tabli&s;hed for the atteintes to be &s;ued for puni&s;&s;heme~t of periurye vp|pon vntrue verdictes, which acte was then made to endure to the la&s;t daye of the nexte parliament. And where al&s;o in the &s;aide &s;e&s;&s;ion of the &s;aid par|liament one acte was made and e&s;tabli&s;hed, for making of iayles in diuers &s;hires of this realme, whiche acte was than made to continue and endure for one yere nexte after the ende of the &s;ame parliament. And where al&s;o in the time of the &s;ame parliament,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pewterers</NOTE> one other acte was made concerning pew|terers, which act was al&s;o made to endure to the la&s;t day of the next parlia|ment. And al&s;o in the time of the &s;aid parliame~t one other acte was made concerning &s;owinge of flaxe and hempe,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Flax and hemp.</NOTE> which acte al&s;o was made to con|tinue and indure to the la&s;t day of th nexte parliament, as by the &s;aid foure &s;euerall actes more plainely appereth. For as moch as the &s;aid foure actes be good and beneficiall for the common welth of this realme, be it therfore enacted by auctoritie of this pre&s;ente parliament, that the &s;aid foure actes, and euery of them, and al clau&s;es articles and proui&s;io~s therin conteined, &s;hall &s;tande continue and endure in theyr force and &s;trengthe, and be ob&s;er|ued and kepte to the la&s;te day of the nexte parliamente.</P>
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<DIV1 N="10" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>&para;An acte extingui&s;hing the auctoritie of the bi&s;hop of Rome. Ca. x.</HEAD>
<P>_FOr as moch as not with&s;tanding the good &amp; hol&s;ome lawes ordinances and &s;tatutes heretofore made enacted &amp; e&s;tabli|&s;hed by the kinges highnes our mo&s;te gratious &s;oueraigne lord, and by the hole con&s;ent of his high courte of parliame~t for the extirpation abolution and extingui&s;&s;ment out of this realme, &amp; other his graces dominions &s;eignories and con|treis, of the pretended power and v&s;urped auctoritie of the bi&s;hop of Rome,<NOTE PLACE="marg">By&s;hope of Rome.</NOTE> by &s;ome called the pope, v&s;ed within the &s;ame or elles where, concerninge y^e &s;ame realme dominions &s;egniories or countreis, which dyd obfu&s;cate and wre&s;te goddes holy worde and te&s;tament a longe &s;ea&s;on from the &s;piritual and trewe meanynge therof, to his worldelye and carnall affectyons, as pompe, glorye, auaryce, ambytion, and tyrannye, couerynge and &s;hadow|inge the &s;ame, with his humayne and polytike deui&s;es, traditions, and in|uentions, &s;ette forthe to promote and &s;tably&s;he his onelye domynion, bothe vppon the &s;owles and al&s;o the bodyes and goodes of all Chri&s;tyan people
<PB REF="17"> excluding Chri&s;t out of his kingedome and rule of man his &s;oule, as mo|che as he may, and all other temporall kinges and princes out of theyr do|minions, which they ought to haue by goddis lawe, vppon the bodies and goodes of theyr &s;ubiectes: wherby he dyd not onely robbe the kinges maie|&s;tie, being onely the &s;upreme head of this his realme of Engla~d immediat|ly vnder god, of his honour, righte, and preemynence, due vnto hym by the lawe of god, but &s;poiled this his realme yerely of innumerable trea&s;ure, &amp; with the lo&s;&s;e of the &s;ame, deceiued the kinges louing &amp; obedient &s;ubiectes, per&s;wadinge to them by his lawes, bulles, and other his deceiuable mea|nes, &s;uche dreames, vanities, and fanta&s;ies, as by the &s;ame many of them were &s;educed and conueied vnto &s;uper&s;titious and erronious opinions: &s;o that the kynges maie&s;tie, the lordes &s;pirytuall and temporall, and the com|mons in this realme being ouerweried and fatigated, with thexperience of the infinite abhominations and mi&s;chefes procedinge of his impo&s;tures, &amp; craftilie colouring of his deceites, to the great damages of &s;oules bodyes and goodes, were forced of nece&s;&s;itie for the publique weale of this realme, to exclude that forein pretended power iurisdiction and auctoritie, v&s;ed &amp; v&s;urped within this realme, and to deuy&s;e &s;uch remedies for theyr relife in the &s;ame, as doth not onely redounde to the honour of god, the highe prai&s;e and aduaunceme~t of the kinges maie&s;tie, and of his realme, but al&s;o to the great and ine&s;timable vtilitie of the &s;ame. And not with&s;tandinge the &s;aid hol&s;ome lawes &s;o made, and heretofore e&s;tabli&s;&s;hed, yet it is commen to the knowlege of the kinges highnes, and al&s;o to diuers and many his louing faithfull and obedient &s;ubiectes, howe that diuers &s;edicious and contenti|ous per&s;ones, being impes of the &s;aide bi&s;&s;hoppe of Rome and his &s;ee, and in harte, membres of his pretended monarchy, do in corners &amp; elles where, as they dare, whi&s;per inculke preache and per&s;wade, and from time to time in&s;till in to the eares and heades of the pore &s;imple and vnlettered people, the aduauncement and continuaunce of the &s;aid bi&s;hoppes feined and pre|tended auctoritie, pretending the &s;ame to haue his grounde and original of goddes law, wherby the opinions of many be &s;u&s;pended, theyr iugementes corrupted &amp; deceiued, and diuer&s;itie in opinions augme~ted &amp; encrea&s;ed, to the great di&s;plea&s;ure of almighty god, the high di&s;contentation of our &s;aid mo&s;t dred &s;ouerain lord, and the interruption of the vnitie loue charite co~|corde and agreme~t, that ought to be in a chri&s;ten region and congregation. For auoydynge wherof and repre&s;&s;ion of the folyes of &s;uche &s;edicious per|&s;ones, as be the meanes and authors of &s;uch inconueniences, Be it enacted ordeyned and e&s;tabli&s;hed by the kinge our &s;oueraigne lorde, and the lordes &s;pirituall and temporall, and the commons in this pre&s;ente parliament a&s;|&s;embled, and by thauctoritie of the &s;ame, that if any per&s;o~ or per&s;ons, dwel|ling demurring inhabiting or re&s;iant within this realme, or within any o|ther the kinges dominions &s;eignouries or countreis, or the marches of the &s;ame, or els where within or vnder his obei&s;ance and power of what e&s;tate dygnitie preeminence order degre or condition &s;o euer he or they be, after y^e
<PB REF="17"> la&s;te day of Iuly, which &s;hal be in the yere of our lord god .M.D.xxxvi. &s;hal <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> writinge cifring printing preching or teching, dede or acte ob&s;tinately or <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">aliciou&s;ely holde or &s;tand with, to extoll &s;etforth maynteyne or defend the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ctoritie iurisdiction or power of the bi&s;&s;hop of Rome, or of his &s;ee, hereto <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> claymed v&s;ed or v&s;urped within this realme or in any dominion or cou~|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ye beynge of within or vnder the kynges power or obey&s;aunce, or by any <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">tence ob&s;tinately or maliciou&s;ely inuent any thinge for thextollynge a|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">cement &s;ettyng forth mainteinance or defence of the &s;ame, or any part <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">of, or by any pretence ob&s;tinately or maliciou&s;ely attribute any maner of iurisdiction auctoritie or preeminence to the &s;aid &s;ee of Rome, or to a|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> bi&s;hop of the &s;ame &s;ee for the time beyng, within this realme or in any the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ges dominions or countreyes: that then euery &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;onnes &s;o doynge or offendinge, their aydoues, a&s;&s;i&s;tentes, comforters, abbettours, procurers, maynteyners, fautours, coun&s;aylours, concelours, and euery of the~, being therof laufully conuicted, according to the lawes of this realme, for euery &s;uch defaulte and offence &s;hall incurre and runne in to the daun|gers penalties peines and forfaitures ordeyned and prouided by the &s;tatute of proui&s;io~ and premunire, made in the .xvi. yere of the reigne of the noble &amp; valiaunt prince king Richarde the &s;econde, ayen&s;t &s;uche as attempte pro|cure or make proui&s;io~ to the &s;ee of Rome or els where, for any thing or thin|ges to the derogation or contrary to the prerogatiue royall or iurisdiction of the crowne and dignitie of this realme.</P>
<P>&para;And to the entente that this acte at all tymes may be wel and trewly ex|ecuted, and the offendoues therof haue and receyue condigne puni&s;hement according to their demerites, It is enacted by the auctoritie afore &s;ayde, that as well iu&s;tyces of a&s;&s;i&s;e in their circuites,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iu&s;tices of a&s;&s;y&s;e and peace.</NOTE> as iu&s;tyces of peace within the limittes of their commi&s;&s;ion and auctorities, or two of euery &s;uch iu&s;ti|ciers of peace at the lea&s;t, wherof one to be of the quorum, &s;hall haue ful po|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> and auctoritie to enquere of all offences contemptes &amp; tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions, parpetrated committed or doone contrary to this acte, in like maner and fourme as they may of other offences ayen&s;t the kinges peace: And &s;hall certifie euery pre&s;entment afore them or any of them had or made, concer|nynge this acte or any parte therof, before the kinge in his benche, within xl. dayes nexte after any &s;uch pre&s;entment had or made, if the terme be then open: And if not, thanne at the fir&s;te day of the terme, nexte folowynge the &s;aide .xl. dayes, vpon peyn that euery of the iu&s;ticiers of a&s;&s;i&s;e, or iu&s;ticiers of peace, before whom &s;uch pre&s;entment &s;hall be made, makynge defaulte of &s;uch certificat contrary to this &s;tatute, to lo&s;e and forfaite forty poundes to the kynges highnes.</P>
<P>&para;And it is enacted by the auctoritie afore &s;ayde,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Certificat.</NOTE> that the Iu&s;ticiars of the kinges bench, as well vpon euery &s;uch certificat as by enquery before them &s;elfes within the limittes of their auctorities, &s;hal haue ful power and aucto+ritie to here ordre and determine euery &s;uch offence, done or commytted con|trary this acte, accordinge to the lawes of this realme, in &s;uche like maner
<PB REF="18"> and fourme to all intentes and purpo&s;es, as if the per&s;on or per&s;ons, ayen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> whom any pre&s;entment &s;halbe had vpon this e&s;tatute, had be pre&s;ented v+pon any mater or offence expre&s;&s;ed in the &s;aid e&s;tatute, made in the &s;aid .xv<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> yere of king Richarde the &s;econde.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Vi&s;itations.</NOTE>&para; And it is al&s;o enacted by the auctoritie afore &s;aid, that al and euery arc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">+by&s;hoppes by&s;hops and archedeacons within this realme, their commi&s;&s;a|ries, vycars generall, and other their mini&s;ters, in euery their vi&s;itation <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">+&s;eanes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Seanes.</NOTE> &s;hall make diligent in&s;earche, enquerie, and examination of al &amp; e|uery eccle&s;ia&s;ticall and religious per&s;onne within and of their iurisdiction, which &s;halbe &s;u&s;pected accu&s;ed or demed to be a tran&s;gre&s;&s;our or offendour of this acte. And if vpon &s;uch &s;erche enquirie and examination any eccle&s;i|a&s;ticall or religious per&s;ons &s;hall be pre&s;ented &s;u&s;pected accu&s;ed, or founde culpable by witnes or confe&s;&s;ion, of any offence contrary to this acte, and be pre&s;ente at the time of &s;uch pre&s;entmente examination or accu&s;ation: that then euery the archbi&s;&s;hoppes bi&s;hoppes and archedeacons, their commi&s;|&s;aries, vicars general, and other their mini&s;ters, afore or to whom any &s;uch per&s;onne &s;halbe pre&s;ented &s;u&s;pected accu&s;ed or founde culpable (as is afore &s;aide) &s;hall committe euery &s;uche per&s;one &s;o pre&s;ented &s;u&s;pected accu&s;ed or founde coulpable, if he be pre&s;ente (as is afore&s;aid) to the next common iaile of the &s;hyere, where &s;uch enquitie examination or accu&s;ation &s;halbe had or made, or elles by good &amp; &s;ufficient &s;ureties, to be bounden by obligation to the kinges v&s;e, &s;hall lette euery &s;uch per&s;onne to bayle by their di&s;cretions, to appere before the kinge and his coun&s;aile in the &s;terre chaumbre at we&s;t|myn&s;ter, within .xv. dayes nexte after &s;uche enquirie pre&s;entment or accu&s;a|tion, if the terme be then open and kepte, or elles in the fir&s;t day of the terme nexte folowynge after the &s;ame enquerie pre&s;entment or accu&s;ation. And at the &s;ame day lymitted for &s;uch apparaunce, they &s;hall certifie in to the &s;aide &s;terre chamber by writinge vnder their &s;eales, as well the &s;aide bonde and obligation taken for &s;uch apparance, as the pre&s;entment examination ac|cu&s;ation or conuiction of euery &s;uch per&s;onne, and all depo&s;ytions and cir|cum&s;taunces therof, and the name of the iayle, where vnto they haue com|mitted the &s;aide per&s;onne. And if any &s;uche eccle&s;ia&s;ticall or religious per|&s;one, beinge pre&s;ented &s;u&s;pected or accu&s;ed in any &s;eane or vi&s;itation, be not pre&s;ent at the tyme of the &s;aid &s;eane or vi&s;itation, as is afore &s;aid, that then neuer the le&s;&s;e euery the &s;aid archebi&s;&s;hoppes bi&s;hoppes and archedeacons, their commi&s;&s;aries, vicars generall, and all other their mini&s;ters, afore or to whom any &s;uche pre&s;entement &s;u&s;pection or accu&s;ation &s;halbe had or made, &s;hall certifie euery &s;uch pre&s;entement &s;u&s;pection and accu&s;ation, and al cir|cum&s;tance therof (as is afore &s;aid) in to the &s;terre chaumbre at we&s;tm~ with|in .xv. dayes nexte after &s;uche pre&s;entment &s;u&s;pection or accu&s;ation had or made, or in the fir&s;t day of the terme next folowinge after &s;uch pre&s;entment &s;u&s;pection or accu&s;ation, in &s;uch maner &amp; fourme as is afore reher&s;ed. And in ca&s;e any eccle&s;ia&s;ticall or religious per&s;on, being pre&s;ented &s;u&s;pected or accu&s;ed of any offence done or attempted contrary to this e&s;tatute, be therof
<PB REF="18"> conuicted by confe&s;&s;ion or witnes before any archebi&s;&s;hoppe bi&s;&s;hop or arch+<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">n, or before any the commi&s;&s;aries, vycars general, or other their mini|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">, in their &s;eanes or vi&s;itations, or before the kynges coun&s;ayle in the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Chaumbre at we&s;tmin&s;ter: that then euery &s;uch &s;pirituall and religi|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> per&s;on, &s;o being conuicte, &s;hal &s;uffre &s;uche peynes penalties and forfai|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">s, as be expre&s;&s;ed in the &s;aid &s;tatute made in the &s;aide .xvi. yere of kinge <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">harde the &s;econde.</P>
<P>&para;It is al&s;o enacted by the auctoritie afore &s;aide,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Iuge.</NOTE> that if any eccle&s;ia&s;ticall <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ge or vi&s;itatour, do voluntarily concele cloke hyde or colour any pre&s;ent|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> accu&s;ation or confe&s;&s;ion,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Vi&s;itour.</NOTE> that &s;halbe made to hym concerning this &s;ta|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">, and do not certifie euery &s;uch accu&s;ation pre&s;entment or confe&s;&s;ion be|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> the kinge and his coun&s;ayle in the &s;terred chaumbre at we&s;tmin&s;ter, in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ch maner and fourme as is aboue &s;pecified in this e&s;tatute: that then e|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ry &s;uch eccle&s;ia&s;ticall iudge and vi&s;itatour, &s;o wilfully offendynge, for e|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ry &s;uch default &s;hal forfaite .xl. li. the one halfe therof to the kinges high|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">s, the other halfe to &s;uch per&s;on as will &s;ue for the &s;ame by original wryt <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> plainte or information in any of the kinges courtes, in whiche &s;uite no <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">yne protection or wager of lawe &s;hall be admitted nor allowed.</P>
<P>&para;<HI>AND FOR</HI> &s;tronger defence and mainteynaunce of this acte, it is or|deyned and enacted by auctoritie afore &s;aide, that all and euery eccle&s;ia&s;ti|call iudge, ordynary, chauncellour, commi&s;&s;arye, offycyall, vycar generall, and other eccle&s;ia&s;ticall officer or mini&s;ter, of what dignitie preeminence or degree &s;oo euer they &s;hall be. And all and euery temporall iudge, iu&s;ticyar, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">yer, bayliffe, &s;hereffe, vnder&s;hereue, e&s;chetour, alderman, iurate, con&s;ta|ble, hedborowe, Thyrdborow, bor&s;older, and euery other laye officer and mini&s;ter, to be made created elected or admitted within this realme or any other the kinges domynyons, of what e&s;tate ordre degree or condition &s;o e|uer he &s;halbe, from and after the &s;aide la&s;t daye of Iuly, &s;hal before he take vpon him the execution of &s;uche office,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Othe.</NOTE> make take and receyue a corporall othe vpon the Euangely&s;tes, before &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ones, as haue or &s;hal haue auctoritie to admit him, that he from hen&s;forth &s;hall vtterly renounce refu&s;e relynqui&s;&s;he or for&s;ake the bi&s;hop of Rome, and his auctoritie power and iurisdiction: And that he &s;hal neuer con&s;ent nor agree, that the bi&s;&s;hop of Rome &s;hal practi&s;e exerci&s;e or haue any maner of auctoritie iurisdictio~ or power within this realme, or any other the kinges dominions, but that he &s;hall re&s;i&s;te the &s;ame at all times to the vttermoo&s;te of his power.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Supreame heade of the Churche of Englande.</NOTE> And that from hensforth he &s;hall accepte repute and take the kynges maie&s;tie to be the onely &s;upreme hedde in erthe of the church of England. And that to his cunninge wytte and vttermoo&s;te of his power, without gyle fraude or other vndew meane, he &s;hall ob&s;erue kepe maynteyne and defende the holle effec|tes and contentes of all and &s;ynguler actes and &s;tatutes made &amp; to be made within this realme, in derogation extirpation and extynguy&s;hemente of the bi&s;hoppe of Rome and his auctoritie. And al other actes and &s;tatutes made and to be made in reformatio~ and corroboration of the kinges power of &s;u|preme
<PB REF="19"> hede in earth of the church of Englande: and this he &s;hall do ayen&s;te all maner of per&s;onnes, of what e&s;tate dignitie degree or condition they be, and in no wi&s;e do nor attempt, nor to his power &s;uffer to be done or attemp|ted directly or indirectly any thing or thinges pryuely or apartly, to the let hinderaunce damage or derogation therof, or of any part therof, by any ma+ner of meanes, or for any maner of pretence. And in ca&s;e any oth be made or hath bene made by him to any per&s;on or per&s;onnes in maynteynaunce de|fence or fauour of the bi&s;&s;hoppe of Rome or his auctoritie iurisdiction or power he repute the &s;ame as vayne and adnichilate, &s;o helpe him god all &s;aintes and the holy Euangeli&s;te.</P>
<P>&para;And it is al&s;o enacted by the auctoritie afore &s;aide, that all and euerye per&s;onne and per&s;onnes &s;pirituall and temporall, &s;uyng lyuere re&s;titutions or vtter le mayne out of the kinge, his heires, or &s;ucce&s;&s;ours handes, or do|ynge any fealtie to his highnes his heires or &s;ucce&s;&s;ours, or whiche &s;hall be &s;worne to the king his heires or &s;ucce&s;&s;ours, or that &s;hal haue any office fee or roume of the mo&s;te gratious gifte of the kinges maie&s;tie, his heyres or &s;ucce&s;&s;ours, or &s;hall be reteyned in &s;eruice with his grace his heires or &s;uc|ce&s;&s;ours, &s;hall make take and receyue the &s;aide othe. And that al&s;o all and euery religious per&s;onne, at the time of his or their profe&s;&s;ion or entree into religion, and euery other eccle&s;ia&s;ticall per&s;onne at the time of his takinge of orders, and all and euery other per&s;onne, which &s;halbe promoted or pre|ferred to any degree of lernyng in any vniuer&s;itie within this realme or o|ther the kinges dominions at the time of his promotion or preferment, and euery of them, &s;hall make take and receiue the &s;aid othe before his or their &s;oueraigne, ordinary, or the commi&s;&s;arie of &s;uch vniuer&s;itie.</P>
<P>&para;<HI>AND IT IS ALSO</HI> enacted by the auctoritie afore &s;aide, that if any per&s;onne or per&s;onnes, lymitted or commaunded by auctoritie of this act to make the &s;aide othe, or commaunded by any other per&s;onne or per&s;onnes, auctori&s;ed by the kinges highne&s;&s;e commi&s;&s;ion vnder his greate &s;eale, or his &s;eale ordeined for cau&s;es eccle&s;ia&s;ticall,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Trea&s;on.</NOTE> to make the &s;aid othe, ob&s;tinate|ly refu&s;e that to do: that then euery &s;uch offence and contempt &s;halbe high trea&s;on, and the offenders therof being laufully conuicted, &s;hall &s;uffre pey|nes of death and other forfaitures penalties and lo&s;&s;es, as is limitted and accu&s;tomed in ca&s;es of high trea&s;on by any lawes or &s;tatutes of this realme heretofore made.</P>
<P>&para;<HI>PROVIDED</HI> alwayes and be it enacted, that this acte nor any thing or thinges in the &s;ame reher&s;ed mentioned or compri&s;ed, be in any wi&s;e pre|iudicial hurtefull or derogatorie to the ceremonies v&s;es and other laudable and politike ordinaunces,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ceremonies.</NOTE> for a tranquilitie, di&s;cipline, concorde, deuo|cion, vnitie, and decent ordre heretofore in the church of Englande v&s;ed in|&s;tituted taken and accepted, nor to any per&s;on or per&s;ons accordingly v&s;ing the &s;ame or any of them.</P>
<P>&para;Prouided alway and be it enacted by auctoritie of this pe&s;ente parlia|mente, that this acte, concernynge the by&s;&s;hoppe of Rome or any thynge
<PB REF="19"> to be done by his v&s;urped auctoritie, &s;hall no further bynde nor extende to and vppon the kinges &s;ubiectes of his yle of Ier&s;ey, Gerne&s;ey,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ier&s;ey and Gern&s;ey.</NOTE> and Alder|ney, in any other maner fourme or condition, than it &s;hall plea&s;e the kinges highne&s;&s;e, with the adui&s;e of his moo&s;te honourable coun&s;ayle, vppon con|&s;ideration and examination of the &s;tate and di&s;po&s;ition of his &s;aide Iles, and the common welthe of the &s;ame hereafter to e&s;tabli&s;he, ordeyne, and de|clare vnto them by his gratious letters pate~tes, vnder his great &s;eale: And that the &s;aid letters patentes and euery thinge therin to be conteyned, &s;hall be of the &s;ame effecte, &s;trengthe, and vertue, as if they had bene pa&s;&s;ed and enacted by auctoritie of parliament, any thinge in the &s;aid acte conteyned to the contrary in any wi&s;e not with&s;tandinge.</P>
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<DIV1 N="11" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>&para;An acte for re&s;titution of the fir&s;te fruites in time of vacation to the next Incumbent. Cap. xi.</HEAD>
<P>_FOr as moch as in the &s;tatute of the payement vnto the kin|ges maie&s;tie, his heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ours,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Fir&s;t fruites.</NOTE> of the fir&s;t fruites of &s;pirituall promotions, offices, benefyces, and dignities within this realme, and other the kinges dominions, expres mention and declaratio~ is not had ne made, from what time the yere &s;hall be accompted, in which the fir&s;t fruites &s;hall be dewe and paiable to his highnes, that is to witte, whether immediately from the dethe re&s;ignation or depriuation of euery incumbente, or from the time of admi&s;&s;ion or newe takynge of po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion in euery &s;uche promotion. And al&s;o by rea&s;on that in the &s;ame &s;tatute it is not declared, who &s;hal haue the fruites tithes and other profittes of the &s;aide benefices offices promo|tions and dignities &s;pirituall, durynge the time of vacation thereof, dy|uers of tharchebi&s;&s;hoppes and bi&s;hoppes of this realme, haue not onely whan the time of perceiuynge and takynge of tithes, (that is to &s;aye, wolle, lambe, corne, and haye, and tithes v&s;uallye payde at the holye tyme of Ea|&s;ter) hath approched, differred the collation of &s;uche benefices, as haue ben of their owne patronage, but al&s;o haue vpon pre&s;entations of clerkes made vnto theym by the iu&s;te patrones, protracted and deferred, to in&s;titute, in|ducte, and admitte the &s;ame clerkes, to the entente that they myghte haue and perceyue to theyr owne v&s;e, the &s;ame tythes growinge, durynge the vacation: Soo that through &s;uch delayes (ouer and aboue the fir&s;te fruy|tes, which be iu&s;tely dewe to the kynges highnes) they haue bene con&s;tray|ned al&s;o to lo&s;e all, or the mo&s;te part of one yeres profites of their benefices and promotions, and to &s;erue the cure at their and their frendes propre co|&s;tes and charges, or vtterly to for&s;ake and giue ouer their benefyces &amp; pro|motions, to theyr greate lo&s;&s;e and hynderaunce. For reformation wherof, it is ordeyned and enacted by the kinge oure &s;oueraigne lorde, with the a&s;|&s;ente of the lordes &s;pirituall and temporalle, and the commons in this pre|&s;ent parliament a&s;&s;embled, and by the auctoritie of the &s;ame, that the &s;ayde
<PB REF="20"> yere,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Vacation.</NOTE> in whiche the fir&s;te fruites &s;hall be payde to the kinges grace, &s;ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> beginne and be accompted immediately after the auoydaunce or vacatio<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> of any &s;uch benefice or promotion &s;pirituall afore reher&s;ed. And that th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> tithes, fruites, oblations, obuentions, emolumentes, commodities, ad+uauntages, rentes, and all other what &s;o euer reuenues, ca&s;ualties, or pro+fites certayne and vncertayne, affering or belonginge to any archedeacon|ry, deanry, prebende, per&s;onage, vicarage, ho&s;pitalle, wardeyne&s;hippe, prouo&s;te&s;hippe,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chantries.</NOTE> or other &s;pirituall promotion, benefice, dignitie, or office, (chauntries onely excepte) within this realme, or other the kynges dominy|nions, growinge, ry&s;inge, or comminge, durynge the time of vacation of the &s;ame promotion &s;pirituall, &s;hall belonge and affere to &s;uch per&s;onne, as &s;hall be thervnto next pre&s;ented, promoted, in&s;tituted, inducted, or ad|mitted, and to his executours, towarde the payment of the fir&s;te fruites, to the kinges highnes, his heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ours: Any v&s;age, cu&s;tome, lyber|tie, priuilege, or pre&s;cription to the contrary had v&s;ed or beinge in any wi&s;e notwith&s;tandinge.</P>
<P>&para;<HI>AND IT IS</HI> al&s;o enacted by thauctoritie afore&s;aid, that if any arche|bi&s;&s;hoppe, bi&s;&s;hoppe, archedeacon, ordynary, or any other per&s;onne or per|&s;ones, to their v&s;es and behoofe, at any tyme heretofore &s;ythe the fir&s;t daye of May la&s;te pa&s;te, haue perceyued, receiued, or taken, or at any time here|after do perceyue, receyue, or take the fruites, tythes, obuentions, oblati|ons, emolumentes, commodities, reuenues, rentes, aduauntages, profittes or ca&s;ualties, commynge, growinge, or belongynge, or whiche hereafter &s;hall comme growe affere or belonge to any archedeaconrye, deanrye, pre|bende, per&s;onage, vycarage, ho&s;pitall, wardeyne&s;hippe, prouo&s;t&s;hippe, or o|ther &s;pirituall promotion, benefyce, dignitie, or office (chauntries onelye excepted) within this realme or other the kinges dominions, durynge the vacation of &s;uche archedeaconry, deanry prebende, per&s;onage, vycarage, ho&s;pitall, wardeyne&s;hippe, prouo&s;te&s;hippe, or other &s;pirituall promotion, benefice, dignitie, or office (chauntries onely excepted) And the &s;ame vp|pon rea&s;onable reque&s;te from hen&s;forth to be made, doth not render, re&s;tore, &s;atisfie,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Incumbent.</NOTE> contente, and paye to the nexte Incumbent, beynge laufullye in|&s;tituted, inducted, or admitted to &s;uche archdeaconrye, deanrye, prebende, per&s;onage, or vycarage, or other promotion, benefice, dignitie, or office &s;piri|tuall, excepte before excepted: or do let or interrupte the &s;aide Incumbente to haue the &s;ame: that then euery archebi&s;&s;hop, bi&s;hoppe, archedeacon, or|dinarie, or other per&s;on &s;o doinge, &s;hall forfaite and lo&s;e the treble value of &s;o much as he &s;hall then haue receyued of the fruites of euery prebend, per|&s;onage, vycarage, ho&s;pitall, wardeyne&s;hippe, prouo&s;te&s;hippe, or other &s;pi|rituall promotion, wherof he &s;o &s;hall perceyue, receyue, or deteyne, lette, or interrupte the Incumbent, to perceyue, receyue, and haue the fruites, ty|thes, obuentions, oblations, emolumentes, commodities, reuenues, rentes, aduantages, profittes, or ca&s;ualties: The moytie of whiche forfayture &s;hall be to the kinge our &s;oueraigne lorde, and the other moytie therof to the In|cumbent
<PB REF="20"> of the &s;ame prebende, per&s;onage, or vicarage, or other &s;pirituall <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">tion, to be recouered in any of the kinges courtes by action, bylle, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">nte, information, or other wy&s;e, in which action or &s;uite the defendante <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ll not be admitted to wage his lawe, nor any protection or e&s;&s;oine &s;hal be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> the defendaunte allowed.</P>
<P>&para;Prouided alway, that it &s;hall be lefull to euery archebi&s;hop, bi&s;hop, arch|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">con, and ordinary, their officers and mini&s;ters, to reteine in his or their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">todie, &s;o moche of the tithes, fruites, obuentions, oblations, emolumen|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">s, commodities, aduauntages, rentes, reuenues, ca&s;ualties, and profites, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">s &s;hall amount to pay vnto &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons, as hath or &s;hall &s;erue <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> kepe the cure of &s;uche archedeaconry, deanry, prebende, per&s;onage,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Salary.</NOTE> or vi|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">age, or other &s;pirituall promotion, durynge the vacation, his or their re|&s;onable &s;typende, or &s;alarie. And al&s;o for the collection gathering and leui|ng of &s;uch tythes, fruites, emolumentes, rentes, and other profittes, ry|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ge and growing duryng the vacation afore&s;aid: any thing in this acte <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">teyned to the contrary in any wy&s;e notwith&s;tandyng.</P>
<P>&para;Prouided al&s;o, and be it further enacted by the auctoritie afore&s;aide, that in ca&s;e any of the incumbentes afore&s;aid, happen to dye,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Glebe la~des.</NOTE> and before his death hath cau&s;ed any of his glebe landes to be manured and &s;owen at his propre co&s;tes and charges with any corne or grayne: that then in that ca&s;e all and euery of the &s;ame incumbentes may make and declare theyr te&s;ta|mentes of all the profites of the corne, growynge vpon the &s;ame glebe lan|des &s;o manured and &s;owen: Any thynge conteyned in this pre&s;ente acte in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> wi&s;e notwith&s;tandinge.</P>
<P>&para;And where al&s;o before this tyme diuers and manye per&s;onnes, vicars, and other &s;pirituall per&s;onnes, beynge &s;ea&s;ed, for terme of their lyues, of and in the &s;aide &s;pirituall promotions afore named,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lea&s;es.</NOTE> as well for greate &s;ommes of money to them before hande paide, as for other cau&s;es and con&s;iderations, haue let in ferme for terme of yeres, by &s;ufficient writinges, their &s;aide per&s;onages, vycarages, and other &s;pirituall promotions, or part therof, vnto dyuers and many of the kynges &s;ubiectes, and after &s;uch lea|&s;es by them &s;o made, the lea&s;&s;ours therof haue often tymes v&s;ed to re&s;igne their &s;aide benefices or &s;pirituall promotyons, &s;o demy&s;ed and letten in ferme:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Per&s;onage or vycarage, let to ferme.</NOTE> by rea&s;on of whiche re&s;ignation and other the actes of the &s;aid lea&s;|&s;ours, the &s;aide benefices and other &s;pirituall promotions haue ben voide, and the title and intere&s;tes of the &s;aid lea&s;&s;es, hath bene therby adnychy|late, and of none effecte in the lawe, contrary to ryght and good con&s;cience. For reformation wherof, and for a quietne&s;&s;e the better hereafter to be had and contynued betwene the kinges &s;ubiectes. Be it enacted by auctoritie of this pre&s;ente parliament, that from the fore&s;aide fir&s;te daye of Maye la&s;te pa&s;&s;e, no maner of &s;uche lea&s;e, by &s;ufficient wrytinge heretofore made, nor hereafter to be made by any &s;piritual per&s;onne within this realme of Eng|lande, Wales, or the marches of the &s;ame, to any lay per&s;onne, of any per&s;o|nage, vycarage, or other &s;pirituall promotion afore&s;aide within this realme
<PB REF="21"> vpon which lea&s;&s;e the rent and &s;eruices re&s;erued, with other the yerly char<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ges of the lea&s;&s;e, as in &s;eruynge the cure and otherwy&s;e, &s;hall amount with+in fortye &s;hillinges by the yere, of as moche as the &s;aide per&s;onage, vyca|rage, or other &s;pirituall promotion afore&s;aide, &s;o letten, is rated and vale|wed at, vpon the kynges bokes, for payinge the fir&s;te fruites, &s;hall be adiu|ged voyde adnichilate or determyned, by rea&s;on of any &s;uche re&s;ignation or other auoydance of the &s;ayd benefice or &s;pirituall promotion &s;o letten by the onely acte of the &s;aide lea&s;&s;our, but that euery &s;uch lea&s;&s;ee or grauntee of any &s;uch benefices or &s;pirituall promotions afore&s;ayde, their executours or a&s;&s;ignes, &s;hall haue and may enioye their termes and intere&s;tes of and in the &s;ame, for y^e terme of &s;yxe yeres to be accompted next and immediate|ly after the &s;aide auoydance, yf the &s;aide lea&s;&s;our doo &s;o long lyue, and the lea&s;e &s;o by him before made, do &s;o longe contynue and indure. And that af|ter &s;uch auoydaunce, the &s;ucce&s;&s;our or &s;ucce&s;&s;ours of euery &s;uche lea&s;&s;our, &s;hall and may di&s;treyne for the rent and &s;eruices &s;o re&s;erued, and haue their actions of dette and all other aduantages by way of action entre or other|wy&s;e, agayn&s;t the &s;aide le&s;&s;ee, his executours, or a&s;&s;ignes, for recouerye of the &s;aide rent and couenauntes vppon the &s;aid lea&s;e re&s;erued, as the le&s;&s;our therof myghte haue had, if no &s;uche auoydance had ben had.</P>
<P>&para; And further be it enacted by the auctoritie afore &s;aide, that if hereafter it happen any &s;uch le&s;&s;our to decea&s;&s;e and dye before the ende of the terme by hym &s;o made, and that there be one yere at lea&s;te to come of the &s;ayde terme: that then it &s;hall be lawefull to the le&s;&s;ee therof, his executours or a&s;&s;ignes, to holde and enioy their &s;aid lea&s;&s;e to thend of the &s;ame yere, wher+in he is &s;o entered at the time of his &s;aide le&s;&s;ours death, if his &s;aide lea&s;e do &s;o longe continewe, bearinge and payenge vnto the &s;ucce&s;&s;oure of euery &s;uche le&s;&s;our all &s;uch rent and &s;eruices, as for the remenaunce of the &s;ayde yere, &s;hall vpon euery &s;uche lea&s;e be dewe: for the recouerie wherof the &s;aide &s;ucce&s;&s;our &s;hall and maye haue all &s;uche waies and aduauntages as before is limitted and gyuen to the &s;ucce&s;&s;oure, where his predece&s;&s;our maketh &s;uche lea&s;e and re&s;ygneth.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Man&s;yon <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ou&s;e of per|&s;onage or vy+rage.</NOTE>&para;Prouided alway, that euery &s;ucce&s;&s;our after the deth of his predece&s;&s;our maye and &s;hall haue vpon one monethes warnynge after the time of his in+duction, the mancyon hou&s;e of euery &s;uch per&s;onage, vicarage, or other &s;pi|rituall promotion afore&s;aide, with the glebe belonginge to the &s;ame not be|inge &s;owen at the time of his &s;aid predece&s;&s;ours death, for mayntenaunce of his hou&s;eholde, deductinge therfore in his rent as heretofore hath bene borne for the &s;ame, or as it is rea&s;onably worth: any thinge in this &s;aid act conteyned to the contrary not with&s;tandinge.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Fruites of vacation.</NOTE>&para;Prouided alway, that yf the fruites of the vacation of the &s;aide &s;piritu|all promotions be not &s;ufficient to pay the curates &s;typende and wages for &s;eruyng the cure the vacation time,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Curate.</NOTE> that then the &s;ame to be borne and paid by the nexte incumbent within .xiiii. dayes nexte after that he hath the po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ion of any of the &s;aide promotions &s;pirituall.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="12" TYPE="chapter">
<PB REF="21">
<HEAD>&para;An acte declarynge the lymittes of the kynges palayce of we&s;tmyn&s;ter. Cap. xii.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_FOR AS MOCHE AS THE KYNGES</HI> palayce at We&s;tmyn&s;ter, buylded and edyfyed there,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Kynges par|lee &s;a<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">ce at we&s;tm~.</NOTE> before the tyme of mynde, by and nygh vnto the mona&s;terie, and abbey of &s;aynt Peter of We&s;tmyn&s;ter, in the countie of Myddel&s;ex, is and of longe tyme hath ben in vtter ruyne and decaye; And that our mo&s;te drad &s;ouerayne lorde kynge <HI>HENRY</HI> the eight, kynge of Englande and of Fraunce, defendour of the Faythe, lorde of Ire|lande, and Supreme head in erthe of the Churche of Englande, hath late|ly opteyned and pourcha&s;ed one great man&s;ion place and hou&s;e, &s;ometime parcel of the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions and inheritance of the Archebi&s;hopriche of yorke, &s;ytuate and beinge in the towne of we&s;tmyn&s;ter, in the &s;ame countie, not moch di&s;taunte from the &s;ame auncyent Palayce. And the kinges highnes as we of late vppon the &s;oyle of the &s;aid man&s;ion place, and hou&s;e, and vp|pon the grounde therevnto adioyninge, mo&s;te &s;umptuou&s;ely and curiou&s;e|ly hath builded and edified many and di&s;tincte beautyfulle co&s;tely and ple|&s;aunte lodgynges, buyldynges, and man&s;yons, for his gracys &s;yngular plea&s;ure, comforte, and commodytie, to the greatte honour of his hyghnes and of his realme, and thereunto adioyninge hath made a Parke, walled and enuyronned with brycke and &s;tone, and therin hath deuy&s;ed and ordey|deyned many and &s;yngular commodious thinges, plea&s;ures, and other ne|ce&s;&s;aries, mo&s;t apte and conuenient to appertaine only to &s;o noble a prince, for his &s;ingular comforte, pa&s;time, and &s;olace: Be it therfore enacted by the auctoritie of this pre&s;ent parliament, that all the &s;aide &s;oyle grounde man|&s;ion and buyldinges, and the &s;ayde parke, with all other thynges commo|dyties and pla&s;ures thervpon made buylded and deuy&s;ed, as is afore&s;aid, and al&s;o the &s;oyle of the &s;aid auncient palaice, &s;halbe from hen&s;forth y^e kin|ges hole palaice at We&s;tmin&s;ter, and &s;o to be taken demed reputed called &amp; named the kinges palaice at we&s;tmin&s;ter for euer. And that y^e &s;ame palaice &s;hall from hen&s;forthe extende and be as well within the &s;oyle and places a|fore limited and appoynted for the &s;ame, as al&s;o in all the &s;trete or waye le|dinge from Charinge Cro&s;&s;e, vnto the &s;eintuarie gate at we&s;tmin&s;ter afore &s;aid, and in all the hou&s;es buyldinges landes and tenementes on both the &s;ides of the &s;ame &s;trete or way, from the &s;aid Cro&s;&s;e vnto we&s;tmin&s;ter halle, &s;ituate lyinge or being betwene the water of the Thames of the ea&s;te part, and the &s;aide parke walle of the we&s;te parte, and &s;o forthe throughe all the &s;oyle precincte and limittes of the &s;aide olde palays.</P>
<P>&para;<HI>AND THAT</HI> the &s;aide palayce nowe made by the auctoritie of this acte, &s;hal from hen&s;forth haue and enioy within the precincte, limittes, and boundes before expre&s;&s;ed and declared of and for the &s;ame, al &s;uch and like prerogatiues, lyberties, preemynences, iurisdyctions, and pryuyleges, as to the kynges aunciente palaice within this realme, haue at any tyme here|tofore
<PB REF="22"> belonged v&s;ed or of right apperteined. And that the &s;ame olde and auncie~t palace of we&s;tmin&s;ter from hen&s;forth be reputed demed and taken only as a me~bre &amp; parcel of the &s;aid newe palaice, made by this act, as is a|fore&s;aid: any pre&s;cription recorde or v&s;age heretofore had v&s;ed or allowed to the contrary notwith&s;tanding. Sauinge to al and &s;ingular per&s;on and per&s;ons, bodies polyke and corporate, theyr heyres and &s;ucce&s;&s;ours, and e|uery of them, al &s;uch right title intere&s;t po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion rentes reuertion remain|dre di&s;tre&s;&s;e actio~ lea&s;e lea&s;es grau~tes annuiries &s;uites petitions and con|ditions in &s;uch maner and fourme as they or any of them, their heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ours, or the heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ours of any of them, haue had, &s;hulde, myghte, or ought to haue had in the premy&s;&s;es or any parcell therof, if this acte had neuer ben had ne made: any thynge in this acte conteyned to the contrary not with&s;tandynge.</P>
<P>&para;Prouided alwaies that this pre&s;ent act, nor any thing therin conteined, be in any wy&s;e preiudicyall or hurtfull to Wyllyam Babyngton, keper of oure olde palaice of we&s;tmyn&s;ter, his heires nor a&s;&s;ignes, for or concerning his &s;aid office, but that it &s;hall be lefull to the &s;aide Wyllyam Babington, his heyres, and a&s;&s;ignes, to haue holde, occupye, exercy&s;e, and enioye the &s;ayde office of keper of the &s;ayde palaice at we&s;tmyn&s;ter, with all comodi|ties, profytes, aduauntages, and other emolumentes, ry&s;ynge or growinge of the &s;ame office, in as large and ample maner as if this pre&s;entt acte had not benne made: any thinge in this pre&s;ente acte to the contrary heretofore not with&s;tandynge.</P>
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<DIV1 N="13" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>&para; An acte compellynge &s;pirituall per&s;ons to kepe re&s;idence vppon their benefices. Cap. xiii.</HEAD>
<P>_WHere as in the parliament begonne at London, the their day of Nouembre, in the .xxi. yere of the reine of our &s;oue|rayne lord king Henry the .viii. and from thens adiorned and proroged to y^e palaice of We&s;tmin&s;ter, the .xvii. daye of Decembre than nexte en&s;uinge, amonge&s;t other good actes and ordinances, then and there by the auctoritie of the &s;ayde parlyament, it was e&s;tably&s;hed, ordeyned, and enacted, that as wel euery &s;piritual per&s;on, then being promoted to any archdeconry dean|ry or dignitie in any mona&s;tery or cathedrall churche, or other churche con|uentual or collegial or being beneficed with any per&s;onage or vicarage, as al and euery &s;piritual per&s;on &amp; per&s;ons, which &s;huld after the fea&s;t of &s;aint Mychaell tharchaungell, whiche was in the fore&s;aide .xxi. yere of the reine of our &s;aide &s;oueraigne lorde kinge Henry the .viii.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Re&s;idence.</NOTE> be promoted to any of the &s;aid dignities or benefices with any per&s;onage or vicarage, &s;huld from the &s;aide fea&s;te of &s;ainte Mychaell tharchaungell, be per&s;onally re&s;idente and abydinge at and vpon his &s;aid dignitie prebende or benefice or at one of them at the lea&s;t. And in ca&s;e any &s;uch &s;piritual per&s;on, at any time after
<PB REF="22"> the &s;aide fea&s;te, kepte not re&s;idence at one of his &s;aid dignities prebende or <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ices (as is afore &s;aid) but ab&s;ent him &s;elfe wilfully by the &s;pace of one <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">eth together, or by the &s;pace of two monethes, to be accompted at &s;eue|rall tymes in any one yere, and make his re&s;idence and abidinge in any o|ther places by &s;uch tyme: that then he &s;hall forfayte for euery &s;uch defaulte <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;terlynge, as in the &s;ame acte more playnely dothe appere. In whiche a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e amonge other proui&s;ions conteined and &s;pecyfyed in the &s;ame, it was <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">uided, that the &s;aid acte of none re&s;idence &s;hulde not in any wi&s;e extend <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> be preiuditiall to any &s;cholar or &s;cholars,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Scholars</NOTE> beinge conuer&s;aunte and abi|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ynge for &s;tudye without fraude or couyne at any vnyuer&s;ytie within this realme or withoute, as by the &s;ame prouy&s;yon dothe al&s;o appere more at <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ge. Sythens the makynge of whiche good acte and &s;tatute, dyuers and manye per&s;onnes, beinge benefyced with cure of &s;oule (as is afore &s;ayde) and beyng not apte to &s;tudy, by rea&s;on of theyr age or other wy&s;e, ne neuer <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">tending before the making of the &s;aid act to trauaile in &s;tudy within any of the &s;aide vniuer&s;ities for the encrea&s;e of lerninge, but rather mynding &amp; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">tending theyr owne ea&s;e, &s;inguler lucre, &amp; plea&s;ure, by the &s;ame proui&s;ion <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ourably to defraude the &s;ame good &s;tatute, &amp; ordinaunce, do dayly &amp; co~|monly re&s;orte and repayre to the &s;aid vniuer&s;ities of Oxen~ and Cambrige and to either of them, where they vnder the &s;aid pretence and colour of &s;tu|dy doth contynue and abyde, lyuinge di&s;&s;olutely, nothing profitinge them &s;elfes by &s;tudy at all in lerning, but con&s;ume the time in ydelnes, and in o|ther pa&s;tymes and in&s;olente plea&s;ures, giuinge occa&s;ion and euylle exam|ple therby to other yonge men and &s;tudentes within the &s;aid vnyuer&s;ities, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">tell or nothinge regardinge theyr cure and charge of &s;owle, contrarye to the mindes and entente of the makers of the fore&s;aid good &s;tatute &amp; orde|naunce. And al&s;o diuers and many old beneficed men haue &amp; do continu|ally remayne there, neuer exerci&s;ynge nor practi&s;ynge theyr lerninge, to the example of vertue and mayntenaunce of the common weale, in dy&s;charge of their con&s;cience, according to theyr duetie, hauing neuertheles and occu|pieng &s;uch romes and commodities, as were in&s;titute and ordeined for the mayntenaunce &amp; reliefe of poore &s;colers, to the great hinderance and detri|ment of the &s;ame. Be it therfore enacted by the kinge our &s;oueraygne lorde, with the a&s;&s;ente of y^e lordes &s;piritual and temporall, and the co~mons in this pre&s;ent parliament a&s;&s;embled, that all and &s;ingular &s;pirituall per&s;one and per&s;ones, whiche nowe be or hereafter &s;hall be to any benefice or benefices promoted as is afore&s;aid, being aboue the age of .xl. yeres, the chancellour, vychancellour, co~mi&s;&s;ary of the &s;aid vniuer&s;ities, or any of them, wardens, deanes, prouo&s;tes, pre&s;identes, rectours, ma&s;ters, principals and other head rulers of colleges, halles, and other hou&s;es or places corporate, within the &s;aid vniuer&s;ities, or any of them, doctors of the chaire, reders of diuinitie in the comon &s;choles of diuinitie, in any of y^e &s;aid vniuer&s;ities onely excep|ted, &s;halbe re&s;ide~t &amp; abiding at &amp; vpon one of their &s;aid benefices, according to the entent &amp; true meaninge of the &s;ayd former act, vpon &s;uch peyne and
<GAP DESC="duplicate" EXTENT="1 page"><PB REF="23">
<GAP DESC="duplicate" EXTENT="1 page"><PB REF="23">
<PB REF="24"> penalties as be conteyned in the &s;aide former acte,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Benefices per&s;ons.</NOTE> made and apoynted for &s;uch beneficed per&s;ons for theyr none re&s;ydence. And that none of the &s;aide beneficed per&s;ons, being aboue the age afore&s;aid, except before except, &s;hall from hen&s;forth be excu&s;ed of theyr none re&s;idence vpon the &s;aide benefices, for that they be &s;tudentes or re&s;iaunt within the &s;aid vniuer&s;ities or any of them, any proui&s;o, or any other clau&s;e or &s;entence &s;pecyfyed or conteyned in the &s;aid former acte of none re&s;idence, or any other thinge or thinges to the contrary hereof in any wy&s;e not with&s;tandinge.</P>
<P>&para;And ouer this be it enacted by thauctoritie before&s;aid, that al and &s;ingu|lar &s;uch beneficed per&s;ons being vnder the age of .xl. yeres, re&s;iante and a|biding within the &s;aid vniuer&s;ities, or any of them, &s;hall not enioye the pri|uilege &amp; libertie of none re&s;idence conteined in the proui&s;o of y^e &s;aid former act, made for the &s;cholars &amp; &s;tudentes of the &s;aid vniuer&s;ities or any of the~, onle&s;&s;e he or they be pre&s;ente at the ordinary lecture and lectures, as well at home in theyr hou&s;es as in the co~mon &s;chole or &s;choles, and in theyr propre per&s;ons kepe &s;ophemes, problemes, di&s;putatio~s, and other exerci&s;es of ler|ninge, and be apponente and re&s;pondent in the &s;ame, according to the ordi|nances and &s;tatutes of eyther of the &s;aid vniuer&s;ities, where he or they &s;hal be &s;o abydinge or re&s;iaunt, any thynge conteyned in the &s;aid proui&s;o or for|mer acte to the contrary not with&s;tandynge.</P>
<P>&para;Prouided alway that this acte &s;hall begynne to take effecte at the fea&s;te of &s;aynct Mighel tharchaungell nexte comynge, and not before.</P>
<P>&para;Prouided alway, that this acte, nor any thinge therin conteyned, &s;hal ex|tende to any per&s;on or per&s;ons, which nowe is or hereafter &s;hall be readers of any publique or common lecture in diuynitie, lawe cyuile, phi&s;yke, phi|lo&s;ophy,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Reeders of Publique, Lectures.</NOTE> humanitie, or of any of the lyberall &s;ciences, or publyke or co~mon interpretours, or techers of the Ebrewtong, Caldey, or Greke, in what&s;oe|uer college or place of any of the &s;aide vniuer&s;ities the &s;aid per&s;ons for the tyme beinge, &s;hal rede the &s;aide co~mon or publique lectures: Nor yet to a|ny per&s;on or per&s;ons, which after or about the age of .xl. yeres, which &s;hall re&s;orte to any of the &s;aid vniuer&s;ities to procede doctours in diuinitie, lawe ciuile, or phi&s;ike, for the tyme of their &s;aide procedinges, and executynge of &s;uche &s;ermons di&s;pucions or lectures, which they be bound by the &s;tatutes of the vniuer&s;ities there to do for the &s;ayde degrees &s;o obteyned.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="14" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>&para;An acte lymyttinge the prices of wynes. Cap. xiiii.</HEAD>
<P>_BE it enacted by auctoritie of this pre&s;ent parliament, that no per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;hal &s;ell any Ga&s;coyne Guyon or Fre~|che wynes aboue .viii. d. the galon,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Price of wi|nes.</NOTE> that is to &s;aye, a penye the pynte .ii. d. the quarte .iiii. pence the potel, and .viii. pen|ce the galon, vpon payne of forfaiture for euery pinte to be &s;old aboue the &s;aid price .iiii. d. and for euery quarte &s;old a|boue the &s;ayd price .viii. d. and for euery pottel &s;o &s;olde aboue the &s;aid price
<PB REF="24"> xii. d. And for euery galon &s;o &s;olde aboue the &s;aide price afore limitted .ii.s~. And that no Malme&s;eys, romneys, &s;ackes, nor other &s;wete wynes, &s;hall be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">de by retayle aboue .xii. d. the galo~ .vi. d. the potel .iii. d. the quarte, and .i. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> the pynte, vppon peyne to lo&s;e and forfayte .iii.s~.iiii. d. for euerye ga|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> .xx. d. for euery potell .xii. d. for euery quarte, and .vi. d. for euery pynte that &s;hall be &s;olde contrary to this acte.</P>
<P>&para;Prouided alwaye, that the lorde Chancellour, lorde Trea&s;ourer, lorde Pre&s;ident of the kynges mo&s;t honourable coun&s;ayle, lord Priuie &s;eale, and the two chiefe Iu&s;tices of eyther benche, or .v.iiii. or .iii. of them, &s;hal haue power and auctoritie by theyr dy&s;cretyons, to &s;ette the prices of all kinde of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ynes, that is to &s;aye, of the pryces of the butte, tonne, pype, hogges head, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">cheon. teers, barrell, or rundelet, when it &s;hall be &s;olde in gro&s;&s;e, &s;o that they or any of them cau&s;e the prices by them &s;et to be written, and open pro|clamation therof to be made in the kynges courte of Chancery openly in the terme tyme, or elles, in the cytie boroughe or towne, where any &s;uch wy|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">s &s;hall be &s;olde in gro&s;&s;e: any thynge conteyned in this acte to the con|trarye hereof not with&s;tandynge.</P>
<P>&para;And it is further enacted, that if any per&s;on or per&s;ons, after &s;uch prices be&s;et and put in writinge by the &s;aid lord Chauncellour, lord Trea&s;ourer, lorde Pre&s;ident of the kinges mo&s;t honorable coun&s;aile, lord Priuie &s;eale, and the .ii. chiefe iu&s;tices, or by .v.iiii. or .iii. of them, and proclamation ther if hadde (as is afore &s;aide) do &s;ell any wines in gro&s;&s;e by any fraude or co|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">, contrary to the &s;aid prices &s;o &s;ette and proclaimed:<NOTE PLACE="marg">wines &s;olde in gro&s;&s;e.</NOTE> that thenne euery offendour in that behalfe &s;hall lo&s;e and forfayte for euery ve&s;&s;elle by them &s;olde in gro&s;&s;e contrary to the &s;aid prices .xl.s~. the one halfe of al which for|faitur<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> be to the kinge our &s;oueraigne lord, and the other halfe ther of, if it be within any cytie borowghe or towne corporate, to be to the mayres, &s;hireffes, bailiues, or other head rulers of &s;uch cities boroughes or townes corporate. And if it be without citie, boroughe, or towne corporate, then to be to &s;uche of the kinges &s;ubiectes as wyll &s;ewe for the &s;ame. And that eue|ry &s;uche forfaiture &s;hall be recouered by originall writte of det, byll, plaint, or information, In whiche &s;uyte no wager of lawe &s;hall be admitted, nor a|ny protection or e&s;&s;oyne allowed.</P>
<P>&para;And it is al&s;o enacted,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iu&s;tices of peace. Head offy|cers.</NOTE> that the Iu&s;tices of peace in euery &s;hyre of this pre&s;ent realme, and all maires &s;hereues bailyues and other head officers in cyties boroughes and townes corporate, that is to &s;aye, euery of them w^tin the limitties of theyr co~mi&s;&s;ions and auctorities, as well within fraunche|&s;es as without, &s;hal haue power and auctoritie to examine here inquire and determine the defautes of &s;uch as &s;hal attempte to &s;ell any wines in gro&s;e or by retayle contrary to this act, and to puny&s;he the offendours by impry|&s;onment or otherwy&s;e by theyr di&s;cretions.</P>
<P>&para;And where as in the parlyament holden at we&s;tmyn&s;ter in the fyr&s;t yere of the reigne of kinge Rycharde the thyrde,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Tonne of wyne.</NOTE> amonge other thinges it was e&s;tably&s;hed, ordeyned, and enacted, that euery tonne of wine &s;huld conteine
<PB REF="25"> CClii. galons, euerye butte of Malme&s;ey &s;houlde conteyne .Cxxvi. galons, euery pype .Cxxvi. galons, euery tercyan or poncheon .lxxxiiii. galons, eue|ry hogges head .lxiii. galons, euery teerce .xli. galons, and euery barrel .xxxi. galons, and di~. &amp; euery rondelette .xviii. galons, and di~. And that no ve&s;&s;el &s;hulde be putte to &s;ale, tille it were gauged, vppon peyne of forfayture, as by the &s;ame &s;tatute it doth appere more at large. Neuer the le&s;&s;e great dy&s;|ceyte is dayely v&s;ed in &s;ellinge of wines and oyles in ca&s;kes and ve&s;&s;elles, not bearinge the contentes aboue limitted, to the great lo&s;&s;e of the kinges poore &s;ubiectes. For remedye wherof, it is enacted by the auctoritie of this pre&s;ent parliament, that the &s;aide e&s;tatute made in the fyr&s;te yere of kynge Rycharde the third, and al other e&s;tatutes heretofore made for trewe gaw|ginge and mea&s;uringe of wines,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gaugynge of wynes and other licours.</NOTE> oyles, hony, or any other lycours, whiche e&s;tatutes afore this tyme be not repelled nor expyred, &s;hall &s;tande in theyr &s;trength and vertue, and be put in due execution, according to theyr tenors and effectes in euery behalfe.</P>
<P>&para;<HI>AND</HI> ouer that be it enacted by auctoritie of this pre&s;ent parlyament, that euery gauger within this realme &s;hall trewelye and effectually within the limittes of his offyce, gauge all the &s;aide tonnes, buttes, pipes, ter&s;es, poncheons,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gaugeour.</NOTE> tercyans, barrelles, hogges head, and rundlettes, and &s;hall playnely and trewly make vppon the head of euerye &s;uche ve&s;&s;ell the con|tent of the &s;ame, vppon peine to forfaite to the partie, to who&s;e v&s;e the wine oyle or other thynge therin beinge &s;hall be &s;old, foure tymes the value of that that y^e ve&s;&s;ell &s;o marked &s;hall lacke of his laufull contente aboue wri|ten: the &s;ame forfayture to be recouered ouer and be&s;ydes the co&s;tes of the &s;ure, by the kinges originall writte, or by byll in any of the kinges courtes of his common lawes, or in any competente courte, hauynge iurisdyciyon in the place, where that offence &s;hal be committed, by action or bill of dette, in which action or &s;uite, none e&s;&s;oyn, protection, nor wager of lawe &s;halbe accepted admitted or allowed to the defendant or defendantes. And that e|uerye marchaunte or other per&s;onne, &s;ellinge the &s;aide wine, oyle, or other thynge conteyned in the &s;aid ve&s;&s;ell marked, &s;hall allowe of the price ther|of to the byer of the &s;ame, for euery quantitie of wine, oyle, or other thynge conteyned in the &s;aide marked ve&s;&s;ell, the ful valewe of the lacke therof, beynge by rea&s;on of defaute of full gauge of the ve&s;&s;elle, marked, or of defaute of fyllynge of the &s;ame ve&s;&s;ell, or by rea&s;on of defaute of any of them, after the rate of the hole price of the wine, oyle, or other thinge, &s;o be|ynge &s;olde by that ve&s;&s;ell marked: and that vpon peyne of forfayture to the &s;ame byer the dowble value of the &s;ame ve&s;&s;elle and wine, oyle, or other thynge therin beynge &s;o &s;olde: the &s;ame forfayture to be recouered to ge|ther with the co&s;tes of the &s;uyte, in maner and fourme as the forfayture la&s;te before written is lymytted to be recouered.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="15" TYPE="chapter">
<PB REF="25">
<HEAD>&para;An acte for puny&s;hement of pyrotes and robbers on the &s;ea. Capit. xv</HEAD>
<P>_WHere traytours, pirotes, theues, robbers, murtherers,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pyrates.</NOTE> and confederatours vpon the &s;ea, many tymes e&s;cape vnpuni&s;|&s;hed, bicau&s;e the triall of their offences hath heretofore ben ordered, iudged, and determined before the Admiral,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Admyrall.</NOTE> or his lieutenaunt or commi&s;&s;arie, after the cour&s;e of the ciuile la|wes, the nature wherof is, that before any iugement of deth canne be yeuen agayn&s;t the offendours, eyther they mu&s;t playnely confe&s;&s;e their offences (which they will neuer do, without torture or peynes) or elles their offences be &s;o playnely and directly proued by witne&s;&s;e indifferente,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Robbers on the &s;ea.</NOTE> &s;uch as &s;awe their offences committed, whiche canne not be gotten, but by chaunce at fewe times, bycau&s;e &s;uch offendours commytte their offences vpon the &s;ea, and at many times murdre and kylle &s;uch per&s;onnes, beynge in the &s;hippe or bote, where they committe their offences, whiche &s;houlde wytne&s;&s;e ayen&s;t them in that behalfe: and al&s;o &s;uche as &s;huld beare witnes be commonlye maryners and &s;hipemen, whiche bycau&s;e of their often vy|ages and pa&s;&s;ages in the &s;eas, depart without longe tarienge and protrac|tion of time, to the great co&s;tes and charges, as well of the kinges highnes as &s;uche as wolde pur&s;ue &s;uch offendours. For refourmation wherof, be it enacted by the auctoritie of this pre&s;ent parliament, that all trea&s;ons, felo|nies, robberies, murders, and confederacies hereafter to be commited in or vpon the &s;ea, or in any other hauen riuer, creke, or place, where the admyral or admiralles haue or pretend to haue power auctoritie or iurisdiction, &s;hal be inquired tried harde determyned and iudged in &s;uch &s;hyres &amp; places in the realme, as &s;hall be limitted by the kynges commi&s;&s;ion or comi&s;&s;ions to be directed for the &s;ame, in like fourme and condition, as if any &s;uch offence or offences had ben committed or done in or vpon the lande, and &s;uch com|mi&s;&s;ions &s;halbe had vnder the kynges great &s;eale, directed to the Admirall or admiralles, or to his or to their lieutenaunt deputie &amp; deputies,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chancelloure of England,</NOTE> and to iii. or .iiii. &s;uch other &s;ub&s;tantiall per&s;ones, as &s;hall be named or appoynted by the lorde Chauncellour of Englande, for the time beynge, from tyme to tyme, and as ofte as nede &s;hall require, to here and determine &s;uche offen|ces, after the common cour&s;e of the lawes of this lande, v&s;ed for trea&s;ones, felonies, robberies, murders, and confederacies of the &s;ame done and com|mitted vpon the lande within this realme.</P>
<P>&para;And be it enacted by the auctoritie afore &s;aide, that &s;uche per&s;onnes, to whom &s;uche commi&s;&s;ion or commi&s;&s;ions &s;hall be directed, or .iiii. of theym at the lea&s;t, &s;hall haue full power and auctoritie to enquere of &s;uch offences and of euery of them, by the othes of twelue good and lauful inhabitantes in the Shire, limitted in their commi&s;&s;ion: in &s;uche like maner and forme, as if &s;uche offences hadde benne committed vppon the lande within the &s;ame Shyre. And that euery inditement founde and pre&s;ented before &s;uch
<PB REF="26"> commi&s;&s;ioners of any trea&s;ons, felonies, robberies, murders man&s;laugh|ters, or &s;uch other offences, commytted or done, in or vpon the &s;eas, or in or vpon any other hauen ryuer or creke, &s;halbe good and effectual in the lawe. And if any per&s;on or per&s;ons happe~ to be indited for any &s;uch offence done or hereafter to be done vpon the &s;eas, or in any other places aboue limitted, that then &s;uch orders proce&s;&s;e iudgement &amp; execution &s;hal be v&s;ed had done and made to and agayn&s;t euery &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons, &s;o beinge indic|ted, as agayn&s;te traytours, felons, and murderers, for trea&s;on, felony, rob|bery, murder, or other &s;uch offences done vpon the lande, as by the lawes of the realme is accu&s;tomed. And that the triall of &s;uch offence or offences, if it be denyed by the offendour or offendours, &s;halbe had by twelue lauful men, inhabited in the &s;hire limitted within &s;uch commi&s;&s;ion, whiche &s;hall be directed as is afore&s;ayde, and no chalenge or chalenges to be had for the hundred.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Challenge.</NOTE> And &s;uch as &s;hall be conuicte of any &s;uch offence or offences, by verdicte confe&s;&s;ion or proces, by auctoritie of any &s;uche commi&s;&s;ion, &s;hall haue and &s;uffre &s;uche peynes of death, lo&s;&s;es of landes goodes &amp; cattalles, as if they had ben attaynted and conuicted of any trea&s;ons, felonies, rob|beries, or other the &s;aid offences, done vpon the landes.</P>
<P>&para;And be it enacted by auctoritie afore&s;aide, that for trea&s;ons robberies felonies murders &amp; confederacies, done vpon the &s;ea or &s;eas, or in any place aboue reher&s;ed,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Clergy. Sainctuary.</NOTE> the offendours &s;hal not be admitted to haue the benefite of his or their clergie, but be vtterly excluded therof and from the &s;ame, and al+&s;o of the priuilege of any &s;ainctuary.</P>
<P>&para;Prouided alway, that this acte extende not to be preiudiciall or hurtfull to any per&s;on or per&s;ons for taking any vittaile, gables, ropes, ankers, or &s;ayles, whiche any &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons (compelled by nece&s;&s;itie) taketh of or in any &s;hippe, which may conueniently &s;pare the &s;ame, &s;o the &s;ame per+&s;one or per&s;ones pay out of hande for the &s;ame vittaile, gables, ropes, an|kers, or &s;ayles money or money worth, to the value of the thinge &s;o taken, or to delyuer for the &s;ame a &s;ufficient byll obligatorie to be payde in forme folowing,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Straictes of Marrocke.</NOTE> That is to &s;ay: if the taking of the &s;ame thinges be on this &s;ide the &s;traytes of Marroke, then to be paide within .iiii. monethes. And if it be beyonde the &s;aide &s;traites of Marroke, then to be payde within .xii. mo|nethes next en&s;uynge the makyng of &s;uch billes. And that the makers of &s;uche bylles well and truely paye the &s;ame dette at the daye to be limitted within the &s;aid billes.</P>
<P>&para;Prouided alwaye, that whanne &s;o euer any &s;uche commi&s;&s;ion for the puny&s;hement of the offences afore&s;aide, or of any of them, &s;hall be directed or &s;ent to any place within the iurisdiction of the fyue portes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Fyue portes.</NOTE> that then eue|rye &s;uch commi&s;&s;ion &s;hall be directed vnto the lorde wardayne of the &s;ayde portes for the time beinge, or to his deputie, and vnto thre or foure &s;uche other per&s;on or per&s;ons, as the lorde chauncellour for the tyme beynge &s;hal name and appoynte: Any thynge in this pre&s;ent acte to the contrary not+with&s;tandynge.</P>
<PB REF="26">
<P>&para;Prouided alway, that whan &s;o euer any commi&s;&s;ion &s;hal be directed vn|to the fiue portes, for the inqui&s;ition and trialles of any the offences expre&s;|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> in this acte, that euery &s;uch inqui&s;ition and triall to be hadde by vertue of &s;uch commi&s;&s;ion &s;halbe made and had by the inhabitantes in the &s;aide <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e portes or the membres of the &s;ame: any thing in this act to the contra|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> therof not with&s;tandinge.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="16" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>&para;An acte for the relea&s;e of &s;uch as haue obteyned pretended lycences and di&s;pen&s;ations from the &s;ee of Rome. Capi. xvi.</HEAD>
<P>_WHere the bi&s;&s;hoppe of Rome and his predece&s;&s;ours,<NOTE PLACE="marg">By&s;hoppe of Rome.</NOTE> of his and theyr couetous and ambitious myndes, to thentent to aduaunce and enriche them &s;elfes and the &s;ee of Rome, to the greate em|poueri&s;&s;hynge of this realme of Englande, and other the kyn|ges domynyons, contrary to goddes lawes, the lawes and &s;tatutes of this realme, and in derogation of the imperiall crowne of this &s;ayde realme, haue heretofore wrongefully pretended, extorted, v&s;ed, and exerci&s;ed within the &s;ame diuers and many v&s;urped powers, iurisdictions, and auctorities, durynge and by the which tyme the &s;ayd by&s;&s;hoppe and his predece&s;&s;ours, arrogantly and iniu&s;tly haue taken vpon them for great &s;ummes of money and other profittes to them giuen, to grau~t vnto the kynges &s;ubiectes, and other inhabitauntes within this realme, and other the kinges dominions, many diuers &amp; &s;undry auctorities immunities faculties priuileges lycen|ces indulgences and preeminences, of diuers kindes natures and quali|ties: which all thoughe they proceded by an iniu&s;te and v&s;urped auctory|tie, haue bene vnto nowe of late by the &s;ubiectes of this realme temerously and ignorauntly accepted receyued v&s;ed &amp; erronyou&s;ly put in excerci&s;e and execution: the which v&s;urped auctoritie iurisdiction and power is nowe iu&s;tely trulye and ought to be clerely and ab&s;olutely extynguy&s;hed extirped and aboly&s;&s;hed within this realme and other the kynges domynions. And for as moch as all and euery &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons bodies polytyke and corporate, which vnlawefully and without any maner of auctoritie or iu&s;te grounde, heretofore haue temerou&s;ly and ignorantly accepted receyued v|&s;ed &amp; erroniou&s;ly put in execution and exerci&s;e the &s;aid faculties immunities auctorities priuileges lycences indulgences and preeminences, haue nowe &s;incere pure and perfite intelligence and knowlege of the &s;aid v&s;urped auc|toritie iurisdiction and power. And that the &s;aid faculties, auctorities, pri|uileges, licences, and indulgences, &s;o as is afore&s;aide accepted receyued v|&s;ed and erroniou&s;ly exerci&s;ed, were &amp; ben to all intentes and purpo&s;es clere+ly voyde fru&s;trate and of none effecte. All be it if they &s;hulde be impeached or interrupted of &s;uch priuileges liberties preemine~ces auctorities iurisdi|ctions profittes and other commodities, which they now haue v&s;e and ex|erci&s;e by colour of &s;uch vayne and voyde licences di&s;pen&s;ations and facul|ties,
<PB REF="27"> it &s;hulde be to their intollerable inquietations and vtter vndoynge. Wherfore be it enacted by auctoritie of this pre&s;ent parliament, that al bul|les breues faculties and di&s;pen&s;ations,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Bulles. Breues. Faculties. Dy&s;pen&s;aty|ons.</NOTE> of what names natures or qualy|ties &s;o euer they be of, heretofore had or opteyned of the bi&s;hoppe of Rome, or of any his predece&s;&s;ours, or by the auctoritie of the &s;ee of Rome, by or to any &s;ubiectes re&s;iantes or bodies politike or corporate of or in this realme, or of or in any other the kinges dominions, &s;hall from hen&s;forth be clerely voyde and of no value force &s;trength nor vertue, and &s;hall neuer here after be v&s;ed <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">dmitted allowed pleaded or alleged in any places or courtes of this realme, or of any other the kinges dominions, vpon the peynes contey+ned in the &s;tatute of proui&s;ion and premunire, made in the .xvi. yere of the reigne of king Richarde the &s;econde. Yet not with&s;tandinge at the moo&s;te humble petition and interce&s;&s;ion of the lordes &s;pirituall and temporal, and the commons in this pre&s;ent parliament a&s;&s;embled, it maye plea&s;e the kin|ges maie&s;tie, of his mo&s;te gratious benignitie goodnes and ble&s;&s;ed di&s;po|&s;ition, that it maye be enacted by auctoritie of this parliament, that al ma|riages had and &s;olempni&s;ed within this realme, or in any other the kinges dominions,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Maryages.</NOTE> before the thirde day of Nouember, in the .xxvi. yere of the kin|ges mo&s;te gratious reigne, wherof there is no deuorce or &s;eparation had by the eccle&s;ia&s;ticall lawes of this realme, &amp; which mariages be not prohibited by goddes lawes, limitted and declared in the act made in this pre&s;ent par|lyament for the e&s;tabli&s;hement of the kinges &s;ucce&s;&s;io~, or otherwy&s;e by holy &s;cripture, &s;hall be by auctoritie of this pre&s;ent parliament good laufull and effectual, and &s;halbe from the beginning of &s;uch mariages reputed e&s;temed taken adiudged receyued approued &amp; allowed by the auctoritie of this pre|&s;ent parliament, to al and &s;ingular purpo&s;es effectes and ententes, as good as &s;ufficient and as vayleable, as though no impediment of matrymony had euer ben betwene them that haue contracted and &s;olemny&s;ed &s;uch ma|riages: And that all children procreated and to be procreated in and vnder &s;uch mariages, &s;hall be laufull to all intentes and purpo&s;es.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Archebi&s;hop|pes, and by|&s;hoppes.</NOTE>&para;And that it may be al&s;o enacted by the auctoritie of this pre&s;ent parlya|ment, that all archebi&s;hoppes and bi&s;hoppes of this realme, or of any the kynges dominions con&s;ecrated, and at this pre&s;ent time taken and repu|ted for archebi&s;&s;hops and bi&s;&s;hops, may by auctoritie of this pre&s;ent parly|ament, and not by vertue of any proui&s;io~ or other foreyne auctoritie licence facultie or di&s;pen&s;ation, kepe, enioy, and reteyn their archebi&s;hoprikes &amp; by|&s;hoprikes, in as large &amp; ample maner, as if they had ben promoted elected confirmed &amp; con&s;ecrated, according to the dewe cour&s;e of the lawes of this realme. And that euery archeby&s;hoppe and by&s;hoppe of this realme, and of other the kinges dominions, may mini&s;ter v&s;e and exerci&s;e all and euerye thyng and thinges, perteyning to thoffice or ordre of an archebi&s;&s;hop &amp; by|&s;hop, with al tokens in&s;ignes and ceremonies therunto laufully belonging. And that al eccle&s;ia&s;ticall per&s;ons of the kinges realme &amp; dominions, which at this time be taken had and reputed for abbottes priours, abba&s;&s;es, prio|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;&s;es,
<PB REF="27"> and other heades of religion (whiche be not nother &s;hall be excluded from their dignities by the late acte of &s;uppre&s;&s;ion) and the religious per|&s;ons lyuinge vnder their obedience, and all per&s;ons now taken and repu|ted as may&s;ters pre&s;identes prouo&s;tes and wardeynes of cathedrall chur|ches and colleges, with the companies and felow&s;hippes of the &s;ame, al pre+&s;tes and clerkes, which haue receyued any of the eccle&s;ia&s;ticall orders, all archedeacons and deanes, and other hauynge offices cures and dignities &s;pirituall, may by auctoritie of this act, and not by the vertue of any forein power or auctoritie, admini&s;ter v&s;e and exerci&s;e all thinges perteininge to their dignities offices ordres cures religions and felow&s;hippes, and maye laufully hereafter v&s;e al tokens in&s;ignes, and ceremonies, which they haue ben accu&s;tomed to v&s;e in times pa&s;te (&s;o it be not expre&s;ly agayn&s;t the lawes of god and this realme) any thing or thinges conteyned in any act or actes, made &s;ithen the beginninge of this pre&s;ent parliament to the contrary of any the premi&s;&s;es in any wi&s;e not with&s;tanding.</P>
<P>&para;And where diuers and many of the kinges &s;aid &s;ubiectes haue purcha|&s;ed and obteyned many di&s;pen&s;ations bulles breues and faculties of the bi|&s;hoppe of Rome for the tyme beynge, or by auctoritie of the &s;ee of Rome, as pluralities, vnyons, trialities, appropriations, commendams, exemptions, and other bulles breues and faculties, for diuers cau&s;es and matters, other than be afore expre&s;&s;ed, which be of no &s;trength or vertue: it may therfore plea&s;e the kynges maie&s;tie, that it may be enacted by auctoritie afore &s;aide, that all and euery his &s;aid &s;ubiectes durynge the time of one hole yere next after the fea&s;t of &s;aincte Michaell the archaungell nexte comminge, maye enioy v&s;e and haue by auctoritie of this pre&s;ent acte, and not by the vertue of the &s;aid bulles breues and faculties, al &amp; euery the effectes conteyned &amp; &s;pecified in &s;uch bulles breues and faculties, in all &s;uch ca&s;es onely as may be di&s;pen&s;ed with by the archebi&s;hoppe of Canturbury, by auctoritie of the lawes and &s;tatutes of this realme.</P>
<P>&para;And that it maye be further enacted by auctoritie afore&s;aid, that all and euery the kinges &s;aid &s;ubiectes, bryngyng rendrynge and delyuerynge to &s;uch per&s;ons of his coun&s;ell, or of the mai&s;ters of his chancery, as the kin|ges highnes &s;hall name and appoynt, any bulles breues or any other facul|ties concerninge any the premi&s;&s;es: that then if it &s;hall appere to &s;uch per|&s;ons as the kinges highnes &s;hall &s;o name and appoynt to receyue &s;uch bul|les faculties and breues, after dewe examination therof had, that the effec|tes conteyned and &s;pecified in &s;uch bulles faculties and breues or any part therof, maye be laufully graunted by the &s;aide archeby&s;hoppe, of Cantur|bury, by auctoritie of the lawes and &s;tatutes of this realme: that then &amp; in euery &s;uch ca&s;e the kinges &s;aide &s;ubiectes, makinge humble &s;uite to haue the effectes conteyned in the &s;aid bulles breues and faculties to be granted vnto them,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chauncellor of Englande.</NOTE> &s;hall haue receyue and obteyne of the chauncellour of Englande or keper of the great &s;eale for the time beinge, by &s;ufficient writing in dewe fourme to be made, and to be &s;ealed vnder the kinges great &s;eale, all and e|uery
<PB REF="28"> &s;uch effectes conteyned and &s;pecified in &s;uch bulles breues and fac<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">+ties,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Archebi&s;&s;hop of Cant.</NOTE> as may be laufully graunted by the &s;ayde archebi&s;&s;hoppe of Cant<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">+bury, by auctoritie of the lawes and &s;tatutes of this realme, paying onel<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> for the &s;ealinge of euery &s;uch writinge .xx. &s; .iiii. d. And ouer that for t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> rea&s;onable co&s;tes for peynes of the writinge therof .iii. &s; iiii. d. and not <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">+boue, and for the peyne taken for dewe examynation of euery &s;uche bulles breues and faculties .iii. &s; .iiii. d. and not aboue. And that this pre&s;ent act<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;halbe &s;ufficient and immediate warrant to the chancellour or keper of the greate &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">, for then&s;ealing and deliuerie of &s;uch licences faculties di&s;pen|&s;ations and other writinges, which &s;hall be made graunted and &s;ealed vn|der the kinges greate &s;eale by vertue and auctoritie of this acte.</P>
<P>&para;And it is al&s;o enacted by auctoritie afore &s;ayd, that all and euery &s;uche lycence di&s;pen&s;ation facultie confirmation or other writing, to be had made or graunted vnder the kinges great &s;eale out of the &s;aid court of chauncery by auctoritie of this acte, in fourme as is aboue reher&s;ed, &s;hall be good and effectuall to the &s;aide parties &s;uing for the &s;ame, according to the tenor and effectes therof, and &s;hall be admitted, accepted, and allowed in all courtes and places of this realme, and in all other the kinges dominions: any v|&s;age, pre&s;cription, foreyne lawes, cu&s;tomes, or ordynaunce to the contrary therof notwith&s;tandinge.</P>
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<HEAD>&para;An acte giuinge auctoritie to &s;uche as &s;hall &s;uccede to the crowne of this realme, whan they come to the age of .xxiiii. yeres to make fru&s;trate &s;uch actes as &s;hall be made afore in their time. Capitulo .xvii.</HEAD>
<P>_FOr as moche as lawes and &s;tatutes may happen hereaf|ter to be made within this realme, at parlyamentes hol|den at &s;uch time as the kinges of the &s;ame &s;hall happen to be within age, hauynge &s;mall knowledge and experi|ence of their affaires, to the great hynderance and dero|gation of the imperiall crowne of this realme, and to the vniuer&s;all damage of the common welthe of the &s;ub|iectes of the &s;ame, Be it therfore enacted by auctoritie of this pre&s;ente par|lyament, that if the imperiall crowne of this realme, after the decea&s;&s;e of the kynges moo&s;te royall maie&s;tie (who&s;e lyfe our lorde longe pre&s;erue) di|&s;cende, comme, or remayne, to the heires of oure &s;aide &s;oueraigne lorde, or to any per&s;one to be limitted by his highnes, as of very right it mu&s;te and ought to do,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Actes of par|lyament.</NOTE> according to the lawes of this realme e&s;tabli&s;hed for the &s;ame, the &s;aide heires or &s;uche per&s;onne beinge within the age of .xxiiii. yeres, and that then any acte or actes of parliament &s;hall happen to be made and e&s;ta|bly&s;hed in any parliament, that then &s;hall be holden, before &s;uche heyre or heires per&s;on or per&s;ones then being in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the &s;aid crowne, &s;hall be of their full ages of .xxiiii. yeres: that then euery &s;uch heire or heires of
<PB REF="28"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">de &s;oueraigne lorde, or &s;uch per&s;one &s;o po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of the crowne, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> within the &s;ame age of .xxiiii. yeres, &s;hall haue full power and au|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> at all tymes after they &s;hall come to theyr &s;aide full ages of .xxiiii.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Letters pa|tentes.</NOTE> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> by theyr letters patentes, vnder the greatte &s;eale of Englande, to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e, adnulle, and repeale all and &s;yngular &s;uche actes, made and e&s;ta|bli&s;hed by their royall a&s;&s;entes in any parlyament holden during the time <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> they were within their &s;aide age of .xxiiii. yeres, theyr royall a&s;&s;entes <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">de to the &s;ame, durynge the tyme that they were within the &s;aid age of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> yeres,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Reuocation of actes.</NOTE> or any acte or actes hereafter to be made to the contrary therof notwith&s;tandinge.</P>
<P>&para;And be it al&s;o enacted by auctoritie afore&s;aid, that euery &s;uch repeale ad|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ation and reuocation of any acte or actes, that &s;halbe made and e&s;tabli|&s;hed in any parlyament, holden before the time that &s;uch heires or per&s;on, po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of the crowne, &s;hall be of the &s;aide age of .xxiiii. yeres, &s;hall be as <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">d and effectuall to al intentes and purpo&s;es, as though it had ben done <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> auctoritie of parlyament.</P>
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<HEAD>&para;An acte concerning trea&s;on in certayne ca&s;es. Cap. xviii.</HEAD>
<P>_BE it enacted by auctoritie of this pre&s;ent parliame~t, that if any man, of what e&s;tate, degree, or co~dition &s;o euer he be, at any time hereafter, take vpon him to e&s;pou&s;e, mary, or take to his wyfe any of the kynges childre~, being laufully borne or otherwi&s;e, commonly reputed or take~ for his children, or any of the kynges &s;y&s;ters or auntes of the part of y^e father or any the laufull childre~ of y^e kinges brethren or &s;i&s;ters, or contract mariage with any of them, without the e&s;peciall licence a&s;&s;ent con|&s;ent &amp; agrement fir&s;t therevnto had and obteined of the kinges highnes in writinge vnder his gracis great &s;eale, or defyle or deflour any of the~ not be|inge maryed, &s;hall be demed and adiuged a traitour to the king and to his realme. And that euery &s;uche offence here after to be done made or perpetra+ted, contrary to this acte, &s;hall be adiudged and demed to be highe trea&s;on.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Trea&s;on,</NOTE> And that euery man &s;o offendinge, and their abettours, procurers, comfor|ters, coun&s;aylours, and ayders, being laufully conuycte of any &s;uche of|fence accordinge to the lawes of this realme, &s;hal haue and &s;uffre &s;uch and like peines and execution of death, lo&s;&s;es of priuileges of &s;ainctuary and for faytures of landes tenementes and hereditamentes to al intentes and pur|po&s;es, as in ca&s;es of high trea&s;on apperteyneth.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sainctuary.</NOTE> Sauynge to all and euery per&s;on and per&s;ons, bodies politike and corporate, their heires and &s;ucce&s;|&s;ours, and to the heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ours of euery of them, other tha~ the lord Thomas Howarde, and his heires, and all other per&s;ons, which &s;hall for|tune hereafter to be atteinted by auctoritie of this acte, and their heires and euery of them, all &s;uche right, tytle, intere&s;te, po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, lea&s;es, annuities, rentes, &s;eruices, reuercions, remaynders, offices, fees, commons, conditi|ons
<PB REF="29"> &amp; other commodities profites &amp; hereditamentes, in &s;uch maner fourme qualitie &amp; condition, as they or any of them haue had, &s;huld or mighte haue had, if this acte had neuer ben had nor made: Any thing in this pre&s;ent act to the contrary therof notwith&s;tandinge.</P>
<P>&para;Prouided alway and be it enacted, that in euery &s;uche ca&s;e before reher|&s;ed, the woman after the la&s;te day of this parlyament &s;o offendynge, beinge within the degrees before &s;pecified, &s;hall incurre like daunger and penaltie as is before limitted, and &s;hall &s;uffre &s;uche lyke dethe and puny&s;hemente, as is before appoynted to the man offendyng in maner and fourme expre&s;|&s;ed in this acte.</P>
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