1. BY the Statute of 1 ^o. Eliz. cap. 1. 1 Eliz. cap. 1. Forreign Po­tentate not to exercise power in the Queens Dominions. No Forreign Potentate, or other person, shall exercise any Ecclesiastical Power in the Queens Dominions, but she and her Successors may by Letters Pat­tents authorize any Subject born to exercise the same.

2. For the better observance of this Act, Officers Tem­poral and Ec­clesiastical. every Ecclesiastical and Temporal OFFICER, and such as take Degrees in the University; and all the Queens Servants are in­joyned to take the Oath of Supremacy, recited, in haec Verba, in this Statute, to which, because it is long, you are referred.

3. He that refuseth this Oath, if he be in any Office, Refusing the Oath. shall for­feit such Spiritual or Temporal Office or Promotion during his life; or if he be to be admitted to any such Office, he shall take the afore­said Oath before he be admitted, and if he refuse it, he shall be adjudged uncapable of it.

4. If any have a Temporal Office of Inheritance, Oath. and at first re­fuse this Oath, but afterwards shall take it, he shall be restored.

5. None shall maintain the jurisdiction of any Forreign Prelate or Potentate in the Queens Dominions, Penalty of maintaining any Forregn Potentates power, &c. upon pain of forfeiting all his Goods and Chattels; and if he be not worth twenty pounds at [Page 8] the time of his Conviction, Premunire is to be put out of the Kings pro­tection, and to forfeit all his Goods & Chat­tels, and all lands in Fee. Co. 1. Justit. f. 129. b. 130. a. he shall forfeit all he hath, and suffer a years imprisonment without Bayl; and for the second offence, incur a Praemunire; and for the third offence, be guilty of high Treason, which offence must be prosecuted within one year after it is committed; but if the offence be by Preaching, Teaching, or Words onely; Prosecution by Indictment must be within six months, else the Offender to be set at liberty.

Conviction.6. A Clergy man beneficed upon the first Conviction, for such offence, shall loose his Spiritual promotion.

Peer.7. A Peer of the Realm, guilty of such offence, is to be tryed by his Peers.

8. No persons to be Indicted or Arraigned for the aforesaid of­fences, Witnesses. but by two or more sufficient witnesses produced vivâ voce, and none shall be questioned for relieving, ayding or comforting any such offender as is before mentioned, unless it be proved by two witnesses at least, that at the time of such relief, aid, &c. he had notice of the offence committed.

5. Eliz. cap. 1.1. By this Statute of 5 ^to. Eliz. None shall maintain the Juris­diction of the Bishop or Sea of Rome, within any of the Queens Dominions, upon pain that they and their Accessaries shall incur a Praemunire.

Who may have Oyer and Ter­miner of these Offences.2. Justices of Assize, Justices of the Peace in Sessions, or any two of them (whereof on of the Quorum) have power to hear and determine this offence, and to certifie the presentments into the Kings Bench, within a time limited in the Statute on pain of a hun­dred pound, and Justices of Assize have power as well upon such Certificate, as also before themselves to hear and determine such Offences.

Persons that must take the Oath of Su­premacy.3. All persons appointed by the Statute of 1. Eliz. cap. 1. to take the Oath of Supremacy, and all other persons taking Orders, pre­ferred to any Degree in the Universities, all Schoolmasters publick and private; all that take degrees of Learning, in the Laws, in the Inns of Court, or Chancery; all Attournies, Protonotaries, Phi­lizers, Escheators, &c. All persons admitted to any Ministry or Office belonging to the Common Law, or other Law or Laws; and all Officers and Ministers of every Court, shall take the said Oath before their admittance to the exercise of any such Offices or Pro­fession.

Premunire.4. He that is thus compettable to take the said Oath, if he re­fuse it, incurs a Praemunire, if his default be presented, and he In­dicted within a year after the default.

[Page 9]5. Who have pow­er to give the Oath. Archbishops and Bishops have power in their proper Dioces­ses to minister this Oath; and the Lord Chancellor or Keeper (with­out further Warrant) may grant Commission to tender it.

6. All persons impowered to tender this Oath, Certificate of refusal. are to certifie the Refusals of those Recusants that will not take it, under their hands and seals, into the Kings-Bench, within a limited time in the Sta­tute, on pain of 100 l. See the Statute at large, as to the Time.

7. Those that refuse this Oath upon second Tender, Second offence. or were for­merly convicted of maintaining the Jurisdiction of the Pope or See of Rome, and do commit the like Offence the second time, both they and their Accessaries shall suffer as in case of high Treason, ex­cept in case of corruption of Blood, disinherison of Heirs, forfei­ture of Dower, or prejudice to others beside the Offender, &c. Alms. But none shall be punished as accessary, for giving Alms without fraud to the Offender.

8. This Act is to be published at every Quarter-Sessions, When this Act is to be publish­ed, and where? at eve­ry Leet, and every Term in open Hall in the Innes of Court and Chancery, by the persons appointed thereto.

9. Every Member of the Commons House, Members of the Com. House. is to take this Oath before he sit in Parliament, before the Lord Steward or his Deputy.

10. None of, or above the degree of a Baron is compellable to take this Oath; but a Peer offending herein, Barons and Peers. is onely triable by his Peers.

11. Second tender of the Oath. No Papist is compellable to take this Oath upon second ten­der, or be in danger (by refusal thereof) to incur high Treason, but onely Clergy-men, Officers of Ecclesiastical Courts, such as shall not observe the Rites of the Church of England, &c. Mass. or do say or hear Private Mass.

1. By this Statute, All that obtain or put in ure any Bull of Ab­solution or Reconciliation from the Church of Rome, or absolve, 13 Eliz. cap. 2. Bulls from Rome. or be absolved thereby, both they and their Accessaries before the fact, shall be adjudged guilty of high Treason.

2. Their Comforters and Maintainers shall incur a Praemunire; Comforters, Maintainers, Concealers. and their Concealers, misprision of Treason, unless within six weeks they discover them to some Privy Counsellour, &c.

3. If any bring into the Queens Dominions any Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei, Crosses, &c. Cros­ses, Pictures, Beads, or any such vain and superstitious thing, or de­liver or offer the same to any person to be used; the Person so do­ing, and the Person receiving the same, shall incur a Praemunire; but if the person to whom the tender is made, apprehend the person ten­dring it, and bring him before a Justice of Peace; or being unable [Page 10] so to do, shall within three dayes disclose his name, and aboad, or re­sort unto the Ordinary, or some Justice of Peace within the same County; or having received the same, do within three dayes deli­ver it to some Justice of Peace, he shall incur no prejudice by this Act.

Justices of Peace, Privy Counsel.4. The Justice of Peace shall disclose the Offences, aforesaid, to the Privy Counsel, within fourteen dayes after notice to him, upon pain of Praemunire.

23. Eliz. cap. 3 Withdrawing the Subjects from their obe­dience.1. By this Statute, it is high Treason to have, or pretend to have power, or to put in practice, to absolve, perswade, or withdraw any person within the Queens Dominions, from their natural Obedience to the Queen and her Successors, or to withdraw them, for that in­tent, from the Religion now established, to the Romish Religion; and they also, who shal be so withdrawn wilingly, together with their Procurers and Counsellors, shall be guilty of the same offence.

Aiders and maintainers.2. Their aiders, and maintainers, who discover them not within ten dayes, to some Justice of Peace, or higher Officer, shall be ad­judged guilty of Misprision of Treason.

Saying Masse.3. None shall say or sing Mass, on pain of two hundred Marks, and suffer one years Imprisonment, and not to be enlarged till the fine be paid. Hearing Mass And none shall hear Mass, on pain of a years Impri­sonment, and an hundred Marks.

Forfeitures.4. There shall be a third part of these forfeitures to the Queen, a third part to the poor of the Parish where the offence is commit­ted, and a third part to the Prosecutor.

Covenous Grants.5. All covenous grants to avoid the Queens Interest, or other persons that may claim by this Act, or 13. Eliz. cap. 2. shall be ad­judged void.

27. Eliz. cap. 21. By this Statute, all Jesuites, Seminary Priests, or any Ecclesi­astical persons born within the Queens Dominions, and ordained or made such, by the pretended Jurisdiction of the Sea of Rome, which come into, Jesuites, &c. The receivers, aiders, &c. or remain in, any of the said Queens Dominions, shall be adjudged guilty of high Treason, and their receivers, aiders, and maintainers (knowing them to be such, and at liberty) shall be ad­judged Fellons, without benefit of Clergy.

Persons brought up in Semina­ries beyond Sea.2. All others brought up in Seminaries beyond Sea, and not as yet in Orders, as aforesaid, which do not within six months after Pro­clamation made in London (in that behalf) return into this Realm; and within two dayes after their return, before the Bishop of the Di­ocess, or two Justices of the Peace, of the County where they arrive, submit themselves to the Queen, and her Laws, and take the Oath [Page 11] of Supremacy, they shall be adjudged guilty of high Treason.

3. They who give or send relief to any such Ecclesiastical Person or Seminary, or to any brought up there, as aforesaid, Sending relief to such Semi­naries. shall incur a Praemunire.

4. Where the Of­fences are pu­nishable. These Offences are to be heard and determined in the Kings Bench, or in the County where they shall be committed, or the Of­fender taken.

5. This Act not to extend to any Jesuite, &c. as aforesaid, Submission. who within three dayes after his arrival, shall submit himself to some Arch-Bishop, or Justice of Peace of the County where he lands, and there takes the Oath of Supremacy; and under his hand, acknow­ledges to continue in obedience to her Majesties Laws.

6. He that knows a Jesuite, or Priest, The penalty of knowing a Je­suite or Priest, and concealing him. to remain within any the Queens Dominions, and doth not within twelve dayes discover the same to some Justice of the Peace, shall be fined, and suffer Impri­sonment during pleasure; and the Justice of Peace that doth not within twenty eight dayes after, disclose it to some of the Privy Council, &c. shall forfeit two hundred Marks.

7. All Oaths and Submissions, &c. as aforesaid, Oaths, Sub­missions, &c. to be certified. shall be certified into Chancery, by the party before whom they are taken, within three months, on pain of an hundred pounds.

8. None submitting, as aforesaid, Those that sub­mit not to come to Court within ten years, or within ten miles of it. 29. Eliz. cap. 6 Grants of Pa­pists. shall within ten years after come within ten miles of the Court, on pain to lose the benefit of his submission.

1. By this Statute, the Grants and Incumbrances, or limitation to uses made by Papists not coming to Church, according to the 23. Eliz. cap. 1. and which are revocable by the Offenders, inten­ded for his maintainance, or in consideration whereof he and his Family are to be kept, shall be void against the Queen, &c. to hin­der her for the forfeiture of their not coming to Church, or saying, hearing or being at Mass; but this Act is not to extend to Grants, made Bona Fide, nor to continue the seizure after the death of the Offender, &c.

2. The Queen may seize two parts of the Goods, Two parts of the Goods, and third part of the Lands of Papists. 35. Eliz. cap. 2 Papists after Conviction, to repair to their dwellings. and two third parts of the Lands of such Popish Offenders as shall not, after their Conviction, pay into the Exchequer twenty pounds a month.

1. By this Act, all Popish Recusants above sixteen years Old, shall within forty days after their Conviction, repair to their usual dwel­ling, and not remove above five miles from thence, on pain to for­feit all their Goods, and Lands, and Annuities during life; and if they have no certain aboad, they are to repair where they were born, [Page 12] or where their Fathers and Mothers dwell; and within twenty days after their arrival there, to give in their Names to the Constables, Headborroughs, and Minister; and the Minister is to keep a Book of their names, and he, and the said Constables, and Headborroughs, to certifie the same to the quarter Sessions, &c.

Coppy-holder Papist.2. A Coppy-holder, in this case, shall forfeit his Estate for life (if it continue so long) to the Lord of the Mannor, (if no Recusant, Convict, or seized, or possessed to the use of a Recusant) but if so, then the Queen, &c. shall have it.

Those that af­ter Conviction will not repair to their dwell­ings, &c. shall abjure the Realm.3. A Popish Recusant (being no feme Covert, nor having Lands worth twenty marks per annum. or goods worth forty pounds, which within the time above limited, doth not repair to the place of his aboad, or doth depart above five miles thence, or within three months after his arrival, there doth not make the submission follow­ing hereafter (being required so to do by the Bishop, a Justice of Peace, or the Minister there) shall before two Justices of the Peace, or the Coronor, abjure the Kingdom, which abjuration they are to certifie to the next Assizes, or Goal-delivery.

If he depart not, he shall be a Fellon with­out Clergy.4. If the Popish Recusant depart not the Realm, within rhe time limited, by the said Justices or Coronor, or return without the Queens Licence, he shall be adjudged a Fellon, without benefit of Clergy.

Jesuite refusing to answer. This Act not to extend to those that are urged by process of Law, &c.5. A Jesuite, or Priest, refusing to answer, shall be committed to Prison till he answer, &c. and this Act is not to restrain any Re­cusant (urged by process of Law, without fraud) to travel without the said limits of five miles, so that he return in convenient time; nor shall it restrain him that is compelled by Law, to tender his bo­dy to the Sheriff.

The effect of the submission5. The effect of the submission, whereby they may avoid these penalties, is, That the Popish Recusant submitting, do acknowledge, and testifie in his Conscience, that the Bishop, and Sea of Rome, hath not, nor ought to have, any power or authority over her Majestie, within any of her Dominions, &c. But the Reader is referred to the Statute, to see the submission at large.

Minister of the Parish is to en­ter submissions in a Book.6. The Minister of the Parish where the submission is taken, shall presently enter it into a Book, and within ten dayes certifie it to the Bishop of the Diocess; and if the Offender, after such submission, shall fall to a relaps, he shall have no benefit of his submission.

Married Wo­men.7. Evety married Woman shall be bound by this Act, save onely in the case of Abjuration.

1. Jac. cap. 1:1. By this Statute, all the former Statutes of Queen Elizabeth, [Page 13] are confirmed, and appointed, to be put in due execution.

2. Where the Ancestor dies a Recusant, the Heir being none, The Ancestor dying a Papist, the Heir being none, &c. or conforming himself, and taking the Oath of Supremacy, before the Arch-Bishop, &c. he shall be freed from all the penalties in the a­foresaid Statutes; but if the Heir, after the age of sixteen years, shall continue to be a Recusant, he shall not be freed till conformity, and taking the said Oath: And the King shall have two parts of his Lands to answer the Arrearages of twenty pound a month, according to the Statute of 23. Eliz. cap. 1.

3. None shall send any Child, Children or o­thers sent be­yond Sea to be trained in Po­pery. or other person under their Govern­ment, beyond Sea, to be instructed in the Popish Religion, upon pain of an hundred pound; and they which are so sent, shall be uncapable (as to themselves onely) of any Grant or Inheritance due to them or others to their use.

4. No Child, or Woman, under 21. Who may pass beyond Sea, &c. years of age (except Say­lors, Ship-boys, Merchants-Factors, or Apprentices) shall be suffer­ed, by Officers of Ports, to pass beyond Sea without the Kings Li­cense, or Warrant of six Privy Counsellors under their hands, upon pain of the said Officers forfeiting their Offices, &c. And the for­feitures by this Act, are to be divided between the King and the Prosecutor; See the Statute of 3. Jacobi, cap. 5. Touching Soul­diers and Marriners passing beyond Sea, vide infra.

1. By this Act, The Recusant, that conforms, 3. Jac. cap. 4. must within one year after his conformity, and so once every year (at least) receive the Sacrament, on pain, to forfeit for the first offence twenty pounds, Sacrament. for the second forty pounds, &c.

2. These forfeitures to be recovered before Justices of Peace in their Sessions, or in any Court of Record; Forfeitures. and to be divided be­tween the King and Prosecutors.

The Church-Wardens and Constables of every Parish, or one of them, or (if there be none such, Presentments to be of the monthly ab­sence of Pa­pists from Church.) then the high Constable of the Hun­dred shall present once every year at the general Sessions of the Peace, the monthly absence from Church of every Popish Recu­sant and their Children, (being above the age of nine years) and their Servants, together with the age of their Children, as well as they can be known, on pain respectively to forfeit 20 s. for every default; and this presentment to be entered by the Clerk of the Peace or Town-Clerk, on Record, without Fee, on pain of 40 s. for every default.

4. If the Recusant be convicted upon such presentment, Officers Fees for presenting Recusants. the Of­ficer presenting him shall have 40 s. out of the said Recusants E­state, by order of the Justices of Peace.

[Page 14] VVho have power to pu­nish Recusants5. Justices of Assize, Goal-Delivery, and of the Peace, have power of hearing and determining the Offences of such Popish Re­cusants, as well for their not taking the Sacrament, as for not com­ing to Church, according to this and former Laws and Statutes; and to make Proclamation that they shall tender themselves to the She­riff or Bayliff of the Liberty where they are, before the next Assize, Goal Delivery, or Sessions respectively: Which if they shall not do, that default is to be recorded, and it shall be a sufficient Conviction of them, as well as a tryal by Verdict.

Recusants for­feitures after first Convicti­on for not com­ing to Church.6. Every such Offender after the first Conviction for not com­ing to Church, shall pay into the Exchequer in the Terms of Easter and Michaelmas, next happening after their Conviction, their for­feitures then due at the rate of 20 l. per month, and yearly after that in the same Terms, at the rate of 20 l. per month, unless the King shall please to take two thirds of their Lands and Leases, or that they shall conform.

Conviction to be certified in­to the Exche­quer.7. Every Conviction is before the end of the Term next follow­ing, to be certified into the Exchequer, and the Court is to issue process of seisure thereupon, against the Offenders Goods, and two parts of his Lands, Leases, &c.

Twenty pounds a month, or two thirds of Re­cusants lands, except the Mansion house, &c.8. The King may refuse the twenty pounds a month, and take the two parts of the Lands, as aforesaid, (excepting the Recusants Man­sion-house) and the King may not demise those two parts to a Re­cusant, or to any other, for the Recusants use; and the Kings Lessee of the said two parts, is to give security not to commit waste.

9. The Bishop of the Diocess, or two Justices of the Peace (one being of the Quorum) may out of Sessions tender the Oath of Al­legiance (mentioned in haec verba, Oath of Alle­giance. in this Act (to which the Read­er is referred) to any person, being eighteen years of age (except Noble-men, ☜ and Noble-women) which stand Convicted or Indict­ed of Recusancy, &c. (or passing through the Countrey, and exami­ned on Oath, confesseth) or (at least) denyeth not, that he or she is a Recusant, and the Bishop or Justices are to certifie the Premises, and the name and aboad of the party to the next Sessions, where the Clerk of the Peace or Town Clerk are to record the same: And if they refuse to take the Oath, or to answer upon Oath, they are to bind them to the next Sessions; and if they refuse there to take it again, they incur a Premunirae, Premunire. Women Covert (except Women Covert) who in that case are to suffer Imprisonment till they take it.

Names to be subscribed.10. If they take the Oath, they are to subscribe their Names or Marks, & no Indictment against such as are Recusants, shal be rever­sed [Page 15] for lack of form, but onely by direct Traverse: Indictment not to be reversed for want of form. Who shall go out of the Realm to serve a Forreign Prince. But if they conform, they may be admitted to traverse or discharge it.

11. None shall go out of the Realm to serve any Forreign Prince or State, without taking the said Oath (of Allegiance) and if he have born Office as a Souldier, he shall also enter into Bond to the Kings use, with condition as in this Act is at large expressed in haec Verba, (to which the Reader is referred) or else to be adjudged a Fellon. Bond.

12. The Customers or Comptrollers of Ports onely, Customers and Comptrollers of Ports to take Bonds. and their Deputies, may take such Bonds, and minister the said Oath in this case, which they are every year to certifie into the Exchequer, the Bond, on pain of five pounds, and the Oath, on pain of twenty shil­lings.

13. Withdrawing Kings Subjects from their obe­dien [...]e, High Treason To absolve or withdraw the Kings Subjects from their Natu­ral Obedience, to reconcile them to the Sea of Rome, or to move them to promise it, &c. or to be absolved, withdrawn, reconciled, or make promise, as aforesaid, is high Treason.

14. This Clause of Reconcilement (as to the point of reconcile­ment only) shall not extend to any, that shall return into the Realm, Reconciliation and within six weeks after, shall before the Bishop, &c. submit him­self to the King, and his Laws, and take the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance.

15. The Sheriff, upon a lawful Writ, Excommuni­cate Recusants Action against an Officer for doing his duty, &c. may justifie to break a house for taking an Excommunicate Recusant.

16. If an Action be brought against an Officer, for execution of this Act, he may plead the General Issue, and give the special mat­ter in evidence.

17. None shall be punished for his Wives offence, Wives Offence. nor shall a married Woman be chargeable with any penalty or forfeiture by force of this Act.

18. Six of the Privy Counsel (whereof the Chancellor, Oath of Al­legiance. Noble men, & Noble Women. Treasu­rer, or Principal Secretary to be one) may minister the Oath of Al­legiance to any Noble Man, or Noble Woman (unmarried) of, or a­bove eighteen years of age, and if they refuse it, they incur a Prae­munire.

19. The Warden of the Cinque-Ports, or some by his appoint­ment, shall take the Bond, and minister the Oath, aforesaid, Warden of Cinque Ports. to any person passing beyond Sea out of them, i. e. the Cinque-Ports, or any of their Members.

1. By this Statute, He that within three dayes notice, discovers to a Justice of Peace, any that entertains a Popish Priest, 3. Jac. cap. 5. or any [Page 16] that have heard or said Mass, Entertaining a Popish Priest. Mass. shall have a third part of the forfeiture due for the said offences, if the whole exceed not an hundred and and fifty, then onely fifty pounds thereof to be paid him by the Sheriff, who shall leavy the same.

Convicted Re­cusants not to come to Court, on pain of an 100. l. Convict Recu­sants not to be in London, or ten miles of it, unless he be a Tradesman, on pain of 100. l.2. No Convicted Recusant shall come into Court without com­mand from the King, or Warrant from the Privy Counsel, under their hands, on pain of an hundred pounds, one moiety to the King, the other to the Discoverer.

3. A Popish Recusant, Convict or Indicted for not coming to Church for three months together, and remaining in London, or within ten miles distance, shall within ten days after such Convicti­on or Indictment depart thence, and shall deliver their names (if in London) to the Lord Mayor there, and (if in the Countrey) to the next Justice of the Peace, on pain of an hundred pounds, to be di­vided between the King and the Prosecutor; but this is not to ex­tend to Tradesmen that have no other habitation in, or within ten miles of London.

Licence must be procured by a Recusant, to go about his oc­casions, &c.4. A Recusant may go about his own occasions, by Licence from the King, or three Privy Counsellors under their hands, or four Justices of Peace under their hands and Seals, with the assent in writing of the Bishop, Lievtenant, or Deputy Lievtenant of the same County, notwithstanding the Statute of 35. Eliz. cap. 2. which Licence is not to be granted by the said Justices, till the party makes Oath of the true reason of his Journey, and that he will make no needless stay.

No Convict Recusant may practice Law, Physick, &c. or bear Office in any Castle, &c.5. No Convicted Recusant shall practice the Common Law, Civil Law, Physick, or the Art of the Apothecary; or be an Officer of or in any Court; or bear any Office among Souldiers, or in a Ship, Castle, or Fortress, on pain of an hundred pound, to be divided between the King and the Prosecutor.

Popish Recu­sant Convict, or whose Wife is such, may not bear Office, &c. 6. No Popish Recusant Convict, or whose Wife is a Popish Recusant Convict, shall exercise any publick Office in the Common Wealth by himself, or his Deputy, unless he bring up his Children in the true Religion; and together with his Children and Servants, repair to the Church, and receive the Sacraments, as the Law requires.

What a marri­ed Woman, be­ing a Recusant Convict, shall forfeit.7. A married Woman, being a Popish Recusant Convict, (her Hus­band being none) that doth not conform her self, as aforesaid, by the space of one whole year before her Husbands death, shall forfeit two thirds of her Dower or Joynter, and shall be uncapable of being Exe­cutrix, or Administratrix to her Husband, or enjoying any part of his Goods.

[Page 17]8. A Popish Recusant, after Conviction, A Popish Recusant Convict, shall be an Excommuni­cate Person to all intents, till he conform. shall be (to all in­tents) reputed as a person Excommunicate, until he conform and take the Oath of Obedience or Allegiance, ordained by 3. Jac. 4. Yet he may sue for his Interest, in Lands not seized into the Kings hands.

9. A Popish Recusant Convict, Popish Recusant Convict, must be married by a law­ful Minister, in o­pen Church, on pain of 100 l. married otherwise then in open Church, by a lawful Minister, according to the Church of Eng­land, shall not be Tenant by the Curtesie. A Woman also (in this case) shall lose her Dower, Joynture, Widdows Estate, and all her Husbands Goods; and where a Man cannot be Tenant by the Curtesie, he shall forfeit an hundred pounds, to be divi­ded between the King and Prosecutor.

10. Every Popish Recusant, Their Children to be Baptized by a lawful Mini­ster, on pain of an 100 l. within a month after the Birth of his Child, shall cause it to be Baptized by a lawful Minister, on pain of an hundred pounds, if he outlive the month, if not, his Wife is to pay the forfeiture; the King to have one third part, the Prosecutor another, and the poor of the Parish the third.

11. Every Popish Recusant is to be Buried in the Church, They must be buried in the Church, or in the Church-Yard, on pain of 20 l. or Church-Yard, according to the Church-Laws of this Realm, on pain that his Executor, Administrator, or the party that causes him to be otherwise buried, pay twenty pounds to be divided as next aforesaid.

12. A Child (being no Souldier, Marriner, Merchant, Who may go be­yond Sea, and up­on what Licence, &c. or Ap­prentice, or Factor to a Merchant) shall not be sent, or go be­yond Sea, without the Kings Licence, or six of the Privy Coun­cil, (the principal Secretary being one) on pain thereby to be incapable to injoy any Lands, or Goods, by Descent or Grant, until (being eighteen years of age, or above) he take the Oath of Obedience before some Justice of Peace of the County, The penalties of going beyond Sea, &c. without Licence. where his Parents do or did dwell. And in the mean time, the next of Kin (being no Papist) shall injoy his Lands and Goods, but shall be accomptable to the other, in case he afterwards con­form, as aforesaid; and he that so goes out of the Realm, shall forfeit an hundred pounds to be divided, as aforesaid.

13. A Popish Recusant Convict, Chancellor, &c. of both Universi­ties, shall present to the benefice of a Recusant Con­vict. shall be disabled to present to a Benefice, but in his stead, the Chancellor and Schollars of the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, shall present, within several Counties respectively, as by this Act is at large set forth.

14. A Popish Recusant Convict, shall not be an Executor, Convict Papist, may not be Exe­cutor, &c. Administrator, or Guardian.

[Page 18] None may bring from beyond Sea, or Print, or Sell Popish Books, &c.15. None shall bring from beyond Sea, Print, Sell or Buy any Popish Primmars, Ladies Psalters, Manuals, Rosaries, Portals, Legends, or Lives of Saints in what Language soever they shall be Printed or Written, nor any other Superstitious Books written in the English Tongue, one pain to forfeit forty shillings for every such book, to be divided as aforesaid.

16. Two Justices of Peace, and all Mayors, Bayliffs, and Head-Officers, have power to search the Houses and Lodgings of Popish Recusants Convict, and of every person, whose Wife is a Po­pish Recusant Convict, Power to search Convict Papists Lodgings for Po­pish Books and Reliques. for Popish Books and Reliques, and to lurn and deface such as they shall find in their custody; but such as are of value, in open Sessions, and afterwards restored to the Owner.

The Armour of Recusants Con­vict to be secu­red; and those that refuse to de­liver them to be punished, &c.17. All the Armour, Gunpowder and Ammunition of a Popish Recusant Convict, shall be taken from him, by Warrant from four Justices of the Peace, at the General Sessions (other then such Weapons as shall be allowed him by the said Justices, for defence of his house against Thieves, &c.) which Armour, &c. shall be kept at the costs of such Recusant, in such places as the said Justices shall appoint, and shewed at every Muster, as his Arms, together with his Horse, which he shall buy, provide, and maintain for that purpose, according to his ability, as other Sub­jects do; and the Recusant that refuseth to declare what Ar­mour and Amunition he hath, and deliver it to such persons as shall have power to seize it, he shall forfeit the same to the King; and by Warrant from any Justice of Peace of that Coun­ty, be imprisoned for three months without Bayle.

[...]. Jac. cap. 6. Oath of Obedi­dience.1. By this Statute is set forth, who shall give, and who shall take the Oath of Allegiance, and within what time, and before whom, a Barron or Barronness, of or about eighteen years old, shall take it. See the Statute at large.

Barrons and Bar­ronesses convicted of Recusancy; who may tender this Oath to them2. If a Barron or Barronness stand Presented, Indicted, or Convicted of Recusancy, three of the Privy Council (whereof the Lord Chancellor, Treasurer, Privy Seal, or Principal Se­cretary to be one) shall minister to them the said Oath, but if he be a convicted person under those degrees; or if the Minister, petty Constables, Who to a com­mon person. or Churchwardens of any Parish, or any two of them, shall complain to any Justice of the Peace, of any per­son suspected of Recusancy, then the said Justice may in either of the said cases, minister the said Oath, and upon refusal commit the party to Prison, there to remain until the next Assizes or [Page 19] Sessions, where if he or she again refuse to take it, Premunire. they shall incur a Praemunire, (except Women Covert, who shall onely be Impri­soned in this case) and there remain without Bayl, until they take the said Oath.

3. None refusing, the said Oath, The penalty of refusing the Oath: shall be capable of any Office of Judicature, or other Office (being no Office of Inheritance or Ministerial Function) or to practise the Common Law, Physick, Lawyers, &c. refusing it. Chyrurgery, the Art of Apothecary, or any liberal Science for Gain.

4. If a Married Woman be a convicted Recusant, A married woman convicted of Re­cusancy, her penalty. and do not conform within three months after conviction, she shall be com­mitted to Prison, by a Privy Counsellor; or the Bishop of the Diocess, if she be a Baroness; but if of a lower degree, then she shall be committed by two Justices of Peace (whereof one of the Quorum) and there remain until she conform, unless the Husband shall pay to the King for his Wives offence, ten pounds for every month, or yield a third part of all his Lands: at the choice of such Husbands.

5. None shall go himself, The penalty of going beyond Sea, or sending any thither to be trained in Popery, or sending relief to them. or send any other person whatsoe­ver beyond Sea, to be trained up in Popery, nor give any main­tenance or relief to the party so sent, or to any School, or Reli­ous house there, (on pain after conviction thereof) to be made un­able to prosecute any Suit in any Court of Equity, to be Commit­tee of any Ward, Executor or Administrator, and to be uncapable of any Legacy, or Deed of Gift, or bearing Office within this Realm. And besides, to forfeit all his Goods and Chattels, and his Lands also, during life; but if he or she conform within six weeks af­ter his or her return, according to the Statutes of this Realm, they shall not incur the said Penalties.

1. By this Statute, the Statute of 1. Jac. cap. 1. 3. Car. l. cap. 2. is to be put in due execution.

2. None of the Kings Subjects shall pass, or go, The like penalty as in the next preceding Statute for sending or go­ing beyond Sea to be trained in Popery, &c. or shall con­vey or send, or cause to be conveyed or sent, any Children, or other person, out of any the Kings Dominions, into any parts beyond the Seas, out of the Kings obedience, to the intent to be resident and trained up in any Popish Society, School or Family, or in­structed in the Popish Religion, in any sort to profess the same; Neither shall any convey, or cause to be conveyed any money, or other thing, towards the maintenance of any such Children, or person already gone or sent, or to go, or to be sent, and trained and instructed, as aforesaid, or (under the name of Charity) [Page 20] towards the relief of any such Society or Religious House, on pain, after conviction, in the aforesaid cases, to be disabled to Sue, or use any Action, Bill, Plant, or Information in Law, or Prose­cute any Suit in Equity, &c. As in the next precedent Statute here abstracted and abridged.

This is the Sum and substance of all the Statute-Laws against Jesuites, Priests, and Popish Recusants; which for the benefit of my Countrey men, I have abstracted out of the large Volumn of the Statute-Books, and here brought them to this narrow com­pass; but read them at large for thy better satis­faction. Farewell.