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L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
May 22
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Name and intended Place of Abode of such Popish Priest and Jesuit
shall be given in, shall enter the same among the Records of such
County, and transmit a Certificate thereof, on the Twenty-ninth Day
of September yearly, to the Clerk of the Council, for the Time being,
to be by him safely and securely kept.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if
any itinerant Popish Priest or Jesuit, after his coming into or arriv-
ing in this Province, and before the Entry of his Name, and intended
Place of Residence, with the Clerk of the County Courts, as above-
mentioned, shall presume to preach, pray, or say Mass, either Public
or Private, to any Number or Congregation of Persons whatever, he
shall forfeit and pay, for such Offence, and being convicted thereof,
the Sum of One Hundred Pounds Current Money.
And for the better Discovery of such Persons, who are Popish
Priests or Jesuits, and may conceal themselves, and travel about
in Disguise, Be it further Enacted, That if any Person, who shall be
suspected to be a Jesuit, Seminary or Massing Priest, being examined
by any Person of Credit and Repute, shall refuse to answer directly
and truly whether he be a Jesuit, or a Seminary or Massing Priest,
as aforesaid, every such Person, so refusing to answer, shall be taken
up and carried before the next Justice of the Peace for the County
where he shall be so taken, and if he persists in refusing to give
Answer directly and truly before such Magistrate, whether he be a
Jesuit, Seminary or Massing Priest, shall, for his Disobedience and
Contempt in that Behalf, be committed to Prison by such Justice as
aforesaid, and thereupon shall remain and continue in Prison, with-
out Bail or Mainprize, until he shall make direct and true Answer
to the said Questions, whereon he shall be so examined.
And be it further Enacted, That all such Armour, Gunpowder,
and Ammunition, of whatsoever Kinds, as any Papists whatever,
within this Province, hath or shall have in his House or Houses, or
elsewhere, or in the Hands and Possession of any other Person at
his or their Disposition, shall be taken from such Papist or Others,
which have or shall have the same to the Use of such Papist, by
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p. 295
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Warrant of any Four Justices of the Peace of the County where
such Papist shall be Resident (other than such necessary Weapons
as shall be thought fit by the same Justices to remain and be allowed
for the Defence of the Person or Persons of such Papists, or for the
Defence of his, her or their Houses), and that such Armour and
Ammunition, so taken, shall be kept and maintained in such Places
as the Justices of the Peace, for the said County, shall, at their next
County Court, direct and appoint.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any
such Papist, having, or which shall have, any such Armour, Gun-
powder, and Ammunition, or any of them, or if any other Person
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