| Chap. 81. |
Recusants.
' to have the custody of a Child, or be Guardian in Chivalry, Soccage,
' or Nurture, and the next of Kin, to whom the Estate cannot descend,
' that comes to Church usually, and received the Communion three times
' that year, before he shall be Guardian, &c. |
193 |
| 37 El. 2. |
' Any Justice of Peace, within the County, in which
any Jesuit, or
' Popish Priest, or other Ecclesiastical Person, shall arrive, or land
within
' three days after their landing, may take their Submission Oath, and Acknowledgment
' touching their obedience to the Kings Majesty, and His
' Laws, provided in Cases of Religion; but if it be any other subject,
who
' is not Priest, &c. and yet brought up in any Seminary, they must
make
' their Submission and take the Oath, &c. before two Justices, &c.
See
' more in this Title. |
§. 53.
Jesuits. |
| 17 El. 2. |
' Every Subject knowing any Jesuit or Popish Priest,
to be within the
' Kings Dominions, ought to discover the same to some Justice of Peace,
' or other higher Officer, within twelve days, &c. And such Justice
of
' Peace, ought within Eight and twenty days, after such discovery made
' to him, to give information thereof to one of the Kings Privy Council,
&c.
' Upon pain of Two hundred marks, and upon such information given
' by the Justice of Peace, he shall have redelivered to him a note in writing,
' subscribed by such Privy Counsellor, &c. with his own hand, testifying,
' that such information was made unto him. |
§. 54.
Discovery
of Priests. |
| 13 El. 2. |
' If any Person to whom any Agnus Dei, Cross,
Picture, Beads, or such
' Superstitious things shall be delivered or offered, do disclose such
deliverer
' or offerer to any Justice of Peace, &c. That Justice of Peace
within
' fourteen days, must declare the same to one of the Kings Privy Council,
' or else he shall incur the danger of a Premunire. |
§. 55.
Superstitious
things. |
| 35 El. 2. |
' If any Person suspected to be a Jesuit, Seminary,
or Massing Priest,
' being examined by a person having Authority so to do, shall refuse to
answer
' directly whether he be so, shall be the person examining him, be
' committed to prison without Bail, till he answer directly. |
§. 56.
Answer. |
| 1 Jac. 5. |
' The party that doth first discover to any Justice
of Peace, any Recusant,
' or other person, entertaining or relieiving any Jesuit, Seminary,
' or Popish Priest, or any Mass to have been said, or any of them that
' were present thereat, and the Priest that said the same, within three
days
' after the offence: And by reason of his discovery any of the offenders
' be taken and convicted, shall be freed from danger of the offence, if
he
' be an offender therein, and have the third part of the forfeiture which
' shall be forfeited by such offence, 3 Jac, c. 4. if it exceed
not 150 l. Or
' if above, he shall have 50 l. and the discoverer shall have
a Warrant from
' the Sheriff or Officer that shall seise or levy the Forfeiture, to pay
him
' out of the Mony levied 50 l. |
§. 57.
Discovery. |
3 Jac. 4.
3 Jac. 5. |
' No person shall bring from beyond the Seas, nor
Print, Sell or Buy,
' any Popish Primers, Ladies Psalters, Manuals, Rosaries, Catechisms, Missals,
' Breviares Portals, Legends; and Lives of Saints, containing Superstitious
' matter in any Language, nor any Superstitious Books in English,
' upon pain of 40 s. for every Book. A third part to the
King, a third
' part to the Prosecutor, a third part to the Poor, where such Book shall
' be found (not bound as in the Print) &c. |
§. 58.
Books. |
| 23 El. 1. |
' If any person shall say or sing Mass, being thereof
convicted shall
' forfeit Two hundred marks, and be committed to the next Gaol for a
' year, and from thence forth till he hath paid the Two hundred marks.
' And every person who shall willingly hear Mass, shall forfeit 200 l.
and
' suffer imprisonment for a year. |
§. 59.
Mass. |
|
' Recusants confined to five miles, may be Licensed
by any four Justices |
§. 60.
Licence. |
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