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§. 34.
Submission
after Reconciling. |
Recusants.
' Such persons as have been reconciled to the Pope,
if they shall return
' into the Realm; and thereupon within six days next after their return,
' shall submit themselves to His Majesty, and His Laws, before any two
' Justices of Peace; joyntly or severally, of the County where they shall
' arrive; the said Justices may take such Submission, and withal may take
' their Oath of the Supremacy, and their Oath of Allegiance. And
the
' said Oaths so taken, the said Justices shall certifie at the next Quarter
' Sessions, upon pain of 40 l. |
Chap. 81.
37 El.. 2. |
§. 35.
Seminary.
Submission. |
' Any two Justices of Peace of the County where
any of His Majesties
' Subjects (not being a Jesuit, or other Popish Priest, &c.) brought
' up in any Seminary shall arrive within six months next after Proclamation
' to be made in that behalf in the City of London, under the
' Great Seal of England, may within two days next after such return)
receive
' his Submission to his Majesty, and His Laws, and take his Oath to
' the Supremacy. |
37 El. 2. |
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' The Justice or Justices of Peace, that shall receive
or take any Submission
' or Oath as aforesaid, by force of the Statute 37 El. c. 2. shall
certifie
' the same into the Chancery, within three months after such Submission
' upon pain to forfeit 100 l. 37 El. c. 2. P. Jesuits
11. |
37 El. 2. |
§. 36.
Women. |
' If any Married Woman under the degree of a Baronness,
being lawfully
' convicted as a Popish Recusant, shall not within three months after
such
' Conviction, repair to the Church and receive the Communion, &c.
Any
' two Justices of peace, (the one being of the Quorum) may commit
her
' to prison, there to remain without Bail, until she shall conform her
self,
' &c. unless her Husband shall pay the King for the Wives offence for
' every month 10 l. Or else the third part of his Lands and
Tenements
' at the Husbands choice, for so long as she remaining a Recusant convict,
' shall continue out of prison; during which time, and no longer, she may
' have her liberty. |
7 Jac. 6. |
§. 37.
Presentments. |
' The Churchwardens and Constables of every Town,
Parish, or Chappel,
' or some, or one of them; or if none, then the Constables of the Hundred,
' as well in places exempt, as not exempt, shall once every year present
the
' monthly absence of all Popish Recusants for the Church, and the names
' of their Children 9 years of Age and upwards, abiding with their Parents;
' and their Age, and the names of their Servants at the Quarter Sessions,
' which shall be received and entred without Fee, by the Clerk of the
' Peace or Town Clerk respectively; or else every Churchwarden, Constable,
' or High Constable, shall for every default of presenting lose
' 20 s. And every Clerk of the Peace or Town Clerk,
for not recording
' 40 s. And if upon such Presentment, the party shall be Convicted
' (being not before convicted) the party making such Presentment, shall
'have 40 s. of the Recusants Goods and Estate, to be levied in such
form
' as the major part of the Justices, by Warrant under their Hands and Seals,
' shall appoint. |
3 Jac. 4. |
§. 38.
Serving
beyond Sea. |
' Every person going beyond Seas to serve any Foreign
Prince, State,
' or Potentate, and shall not take the Oath before the Customer or
' Comptroller of the Poor, or their Deputy or Deputies, shall be adjudged
' a Felon, 3 Jac. 4. If any Gentleman or person of higher
degree, or
' any person that hath born, or shall bear any office or place of Captain
' Lieutenant, or any other office or charge in Camp, Army, or Company
' of Souldiers, or Conductor of Souldiers, shall go voluntarily out of
' the Realm to serve any Foreign Prince, State, or Potentate, or shall
' serve them before they shall with good Sureties become bound in 20 l.
' with condition not to be reconciled, &c. nor to enter into any
practice |
3 Jac. 4.
3 Jac. 4. |
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