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High Treason.
High Treason, as well in the Offenders, as in the Procurers, Abettors
and
Counsellors to the Fact. |
Chap. 140. |
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" If any persons shall obtain or get from the Bishop
of Rome, or any
" his Successors or See of Rome, any manner of Bull, Instrument
or Writing
" Written or Printed, containing any matter or thing whatsoever; or
shall
" publish or put in ure any such Bull, Instrument or Writing; the Offender
" shall be adjudged guilty of High Treason, and forfeit accordingly. |
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And all Aiders, Comforters and Maintainers of any
such Offender, after
the Fact, shall incur a Præmunire. |
Ibid. |
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To conceal such Bull (or Writing) or such absolution
offered them,
and not within six weeks to disclose it to some of the Kings Privy
Council,
is misprison of Treason. |
13 El. 2.
P. Rom. 4. |
§. 12.
Pramunire. |
To purchase or pursue (in the Court of Rome,
or elsewhere) any Excommunication,
Bull or other Instrument, against the King, his Crown,
or Realm; or to bring them within this Realm; or to receive them, or
to
make notification or any other execution thereof, within this Realm, or
without, every such Offender, their Procurers, Maintainers, Abettors and
Counsellors, shall incur the danger of a Præmunire, 16 R.
2. cap. i5. |
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To practise (beyond the Seas or upon the Seas, or
elsewhere within the
Kings Dominions) to absolve, perswade or withdraw any Subject, or any
within any hi Highness Dominions, from their Obedience to His Majesty;
or to reconcile them to the Pope, or to draw them to the Romish Religion
(by Argument, Books or otherwise) for that intent; or to move them to
promise Obedience to the See of Rome, or to any other Prince, State
or
Potentate; every such Person, and their Procurers, Aiders, Counsellors,
and Maintainers, knowing the same are all in case of High Treason. |
34 El. 1.
3 Jac. 4.
P. Rome 7.
23 El. 1.
3 Jac. 4. |
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To be willingly absolved, perswaded, withdrawn or
reconciled, as aforesaid,
or to promise any such Obedience, every such person, and their Procurers,
Counsellors, Aiders and Maintainers (knowing the same) shall be
adjudged Traytors, except they submit themselves, according to the Statute,
within six days after their return into this Realm, &c. Videa
antea, tit.
Recusants. " Except in cases of Treason and Misprison, 23 El.
1. |
23 El. 1.
3 Jac. 4.
F. Recus.
49.
P. Rom. 7.
P. Rom. 8. |
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To conceal any such Offence, and not within 20 days
to disclose it to
some Justice of Peace or other higher Officer, is misprison of Treason
by
the Stat. 23 El. 1. P. Rome 8. |
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§. 13.
Jesuits. |
Again, for any Jesuit, Priest or other Ecclesiastical
Person (born within
any the Kings Dominions) and made by any Authority from the Bishop of
Rome, to come into, be or remain, in any of the Kings Dominions,
contrary
to the Statute, is High Treason. |
27 El. 2.
P. Jesuits
2. |
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To receive, relieve, aid or maintain any such Jesuit,
&c. (being at liberty,
and knowing him to be a Jesuit, &c.) is Felony, without benefit of
Clergy, 27 El. cap. 2. " But that clause relates to such as
had before that
" time taken Orders. See the Statute. |
P. Jesuits
2. 101. |
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To conceal such a Jesuit, &c. sc. not
to discover them to some Justice of
Peace, or other higher Officer, within twelve days, is punishable by
Fine
and Imprisonment. |
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And the Justice of Peace or other such Officer,
to whom such a person
shall be discovered, if within 28 days they give not information thereof
to
some of the Kings Council, &c. they shall forfeit 200 marks.
See plus,
tit. Recusants. |
27 E. 2.
P. Jesuits 4. |
| Bulls. |
' The Popes Bulls in Latin called Bullæ,
are so called, Quod Bullis plimbeis
' obsignentur; and in which consilium & voluntas Papæ
continentur. |
Consilium. |
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' What the ancient law was for concealing of High
Treason, Bract. lib.
' 3. fol. 418. Sheweth us, saying, Si sit aliquis, qui alium
noverit inde esse culpabilem, |
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