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 r34 C. 2. Anno quinto Reginas Elizabeths. A. D. 1562. o.uh before the or Deputies for that Time to be appointed : (2) And that he which fhall enter into the Parliament-houfe Lord Steward or without taking the faid Oath, fhall be deemed no Knight, Citizen, Burgefs nor Baron for that Parliament, liis Dqmty. no r fhall have any Voice, but fhall be to all Intents, Constructions and Purpofes, as if he had never been returned nor elected Knight, Citizen, Burgefs or Baron for that Parliament, and fhall fuffer fuch Pains and Penalties, as if he had prefumed to fit in the fame without Election, Return or Authority. Nnnc of ov above XVII. Provided alway, That forafmuch as the Queen's Majefty is otherwife fufficiently affured of the B^-m fhau'be' 1 Faith and Loyalty of the Temporal Lords of her High Court of Parliament; therefore this Act, nor any compelled to Thing therein contained, fhall not extend to compel any Temporal Perfon, of or above the Degree of a take the laid Baron of this Realm, to take or pronounce the Oath abovefaid, nor to incur any Penalty limited by this Oath. Act, for not taking or refuSing the fame; any Thing in this A£t to the contrary in any wife notwith- standing. Charitable giv- X VIII. Provided, and be it enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That charitable giving of reafonable ingof Alms to ^lms t0 an y f ^g Offender or Offenders above Specified, without Fraud or Covin, fhall not be taken cr be'n" Caui of interpreted to be any fuch Abetment, Procuring, Counfelling, Aiding, Affifting or Comforting, as thereby Forfeiture. the Giver of fuch Alms fhall incur any Pain, Penalty or Forfeiture appointed in this Act. 5'cers offending XIX. Provided alfo, and be it enacted by the Authority of this prefent Parliament, That if any Peer of fhall be tried by this Realm fhall hereafter offend contrary to this Act or any Branch or Article thereof, that in that and all their Peers. ^^ £ a f e anc j Q z { es the y fl la ji De tr; e( } jjy their Peers, in fuch Manner and Form as in other Cafes of Trea- fons they have ufed to be tried, and by none other Means. who only fhall XX. Provided alio further, and be it enacted, That no Perfon fhall be compelled by Virtue of this Aft be compelled to to take the Oath above-mentioned, at or upon the fecond Time of offering the fame, according to the Form "pon the fecond appointed by this Statute, except the fame Perfon hath been, is, or fhall be an Ecclefiaftical Perfon, that had, Tender. hath or fhall have in the Time of one of the Reigns of the Queen's Majefty's moft noble Father, Brother or 'Sifter," or in the Time of the Reign of the Queen's Majefty, her Heirs or Succeffors, Charge, Cure or Of- fice in the Church; (2) or fuch- Perfon or Perfons as had, hath or hereafter fhall have? any Office or Mi, niftry in any Ecclefiaftical Court of this Realm, under any Archbifhop or Bifhop, in any the Times or Reigns aforefaid; (3) or fuch Perfon or Perfons as fhall wilfully refufe to obferve the Orders and Rites for Divine Service, that be authorifed to be ufed and obferved in the Church of England, after that he or they, fhall be publickly by the Ordinary, or fomeofhis Officers for Ecclefiaftical Caufes, admonifhed to keep and obferve the fame; (4) or fuch as fhall openly and advifedly deprave by Words, Writings, or any other open Fact, any of the Rites and Ceremonies at any Time ufed and authorifed to be ufed in the Church of England - y (5) or that fhall fay or hear the private Mafs prohibited by the Laws of this Realm; (6) and that all fuch Perfons fhall be compellable to take the Oath upon the fecond Tender or Offer of the fame, and incur the Penalties for not taking of the faid Oath, and none other. It is not lawful ' XXI. And forafmuch as it is doubtful, whether by the Laws of this Realm there be any Punifhment 10 flay one at- ' f or f uc h as km or f] a y an y Perfon or Perfons attainted in or upon a Praemunire;' (2) Be it therefore enafted; tainted m a Pr<e- ^y Authority aforefaid, That it fhall not be lawful to any Perfon or Perfons, to flay or kill any Perfon or zcEd. 1 ^. Stat. Perfons in any Manner attainted, or hereafter to be attainted, of, in or upon any Praemunire, by Pretence,, 3. e.22. Reafon or Authority of any Judgment given, or hereaf er to be given, in or upon the fame, or by Pretence, Reafon or Force of any Word or Words, Thing or Things contained or fpecified in any Stati e, or Law of Provifion and Pramunirt or in any of them; any Law, Statute or Opinion or Expofition of any Law or Statute to the contrary in any wife notwithftanding. Punifhments in- XXII. Saving always the due Execution of all and every Perfon and Perfons attainted, or to be attainted, fiifted by former f or an y Offence whereupon Judgment of Death now is or ought to be, or hereafter may lawfully be given, by Reafon of this Statute or otherwife : (2) And faving always all and every fuch Pains of Death, or other Hurt or Punifhment, as heretofore might, without Danger of Law, be done upon any Perfon or Perfons that fhall fend or bring into this Realm, or any other the Queen's Dominions, or within the fame, fhall execute any Summons, Sentence, Excommunication or other Procefs againft any Perfon or Perfons, from the Bifhop of Rome for the Time being, or by or from the See of Rome, or the Authority or Jurisdiction of the fame See. Upon whatPrcof XXIII. Provided always, and be it enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That no Perfon or Perfons fhall may bTindYaed. nerea f ter be indicted for Affifting, Aiding, Maintaining, Comforting or Abetting of any Perfon or Perfons_ ' for any the faid Offences, in extolling, letting forth or defending of the ufurped Power and Authority of the Bifhop of Rome, unlefs he or they be thereof lawfully accufed by fuch good and fufficient Teftimony or Proof, as by the Jury by whom he fhall fo be indicted, fhall be thought good, lawful and fufficient, to. prove him or them Guilty of the Said Offences. 23 Eh c. 1. CAP. II. Husbandry. The Statute of 4 H. 7. c. 19. 7 H. 8. c. 1. and 27 H. 8. c. 22. ordained for the keeping in Repair of Towns and Houfes of Hufbandry, and Maintaining of Tillage, fhall be put in Execution. The Statute of 5 &; 6 Ed. 6. c. 5. and 2 & 3 P. & M. c. 2. provided for the re-edifying of Houfes of Hufbandry, and the In- creafe of Tillage, fhall be repealed. Such Lands, or fo much in Quantity, as in any Town, Village, Hamlet, Lordihip, Place known, orParifh, as hath been put in Tillage, and eared in any one Year, and fo kept four Years fithence the Feaft oS St. George the Martyr, Anno 20 H. 8. fhall be eared and kept in Tillage according to the Nature of the Soil and Cuftom of the Country, by the Occupier thereof, upon Pain that every Offender fhall forfeit ten Shillings an Acre yearly, to the next in Remainder or Reverfion, for the Term of Life, Lives or in Tail; for the which he may diftrain, or have A. B. P. or I : And in his