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 Offender or Offenders for his or their Offences or Disobedience, contrary to any Article or Clause contained in the said Grant or Act, to any Ward, Gaol or Prison, within the same City and Precinct (the Tower of London, except) That then from time to time, the Warden, Gaoler or Keeper, Wardens, Gaolers, or Keepers of the Wards, Gaols and Prisons within the City or Precinct aforesaid, (except before excepted) shall receive into his or their Prisons all and every such Person and Persons so offending, as shall be so sent or committed, to him or them, as is aforesaid; and there shall safely keep the person or persons so committed, in any of their Prisons, at the proper Costs and Charges of the said Person or Persons so committed, without Bail or Mainprise, until such time as such Offender or Offenders or Disobedient be discharged of the said Imprisonment by the said President, and such Persons as by the said College shall be thereto authorised; upon Pain that all and every such Warden, Gaoler and Keeper, doing the contrary, shall lose and forfeit double of such Fine and Amerciament as such Offender and Offenders or Disobedients, shall be assessed to pay, by such as the said President and College shall authorise as aforesaid, so that the same Fine and Amerciament be not at any one time above the sum of xx li. the Moiety thereof to be employed to the use of our Sovereign Lady the Queen, her Heirs and Successors, the other Moiety unto the said President and College: all which forfeitures to be recovered by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, in any of the Queen's, her Heirs and Successor's Courts of Record, against any such Warden, Gaoler or Keeper so offending; in which Suit no Essoin, Wager of Law, nor Protection shall be allowed nor admitted for the Defendant.

V. And further, be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, for the better Execution of the Search and view of Poticary Wares, Drugs and Compositions, according to the Tenor of a Statute made in the xxxii Year of the Reign of the said late King Henry the Eighth, That it shall be lawful for the