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438 enacted That the said statute shall be put in due execution, And be it further enacted by the king’s most excellent majesty and the lords spiritual and temporal and commons in this present parliament assembled and by the authority of the same That in case any person or persons under the obedience of the King his heirs and successors or any time after the end of this session of parliament shall pass or go or shall convey or send or cause to be sent or conveyed any child or other person out of any of the king’s dominions into any the parts beyond the seas out of the king’s obedience to the intent and purpose to enter into or be resident or trained up in any priory abbey nunnery popish university college or school or house of Jesuits priests or in any private popish family and shall be there by any Jesuits seminary priests friar monk or other popish person instructed persuaded or strengthened in the popish religion in any sort to profess the same or shall convey or send or cause to be conveyed or sent by the hands or means of any person whatsoever any sum or sums of money or other thing for or towards the maintenance of any child or other person already gone or sent or to go or to be sent and trained and instructed as is aforesaid or under the name or colour of any charity benevolence or alms towards the relief of any priory abbey nunnery college school or any religious house whatsoever: every person so sending conveying or causing to be sent and conveyed as well any such child or other person as any sum or sums of money or other thing and every person passing or being sent beyond the seas being thereof lawfully convicted in or upon any information presentment or indictment as is aforesaid shall be disabled from thenceforth to sue or use any action bill plaint or information in course of law or to prosecute any suit in any court of equity or to be committee of any ward or executor or administrator to any person or capable of any legacy or deed of gift or to bear any office within this realm, and shall lose and forfeit all his goods and chattels and shall forfeit all his lands tenements and hereditaments rents annuities offices and estate of freehold for and during his natural life.

“II. Provided always That no person sent or conveyed as aforesaid that shall within six months after his return into this realm conform himself into the present religion established in this church of England and receive the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper according to the statutes made concerning conformity in other cases required from popish recusants shall incur any the penalties aforesaid.

“III. And it is enacted that all and every the offences against this statute may be enquired heard and determined