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 614. C. 6. Anno xviii Reginas Elizabeths. A. D. 1576. or bchv' no.-ifuit' whereof every fuch Defendant fhall immediately upon the fame Cofts, Charges and Damages affigned, have tec. * ' his Capias ad fathfnc. Fieri facias, or Elegit, to be awarded unto him out of the fame Court in which the 2 Leon. 116. fame fhall be fo affigned as is aforefaid, as in other Cafes of Execution. Sl "' S.°- IV. And be it alfo enacted, That if any Perfon or Perfons (except the Clerks of the Court only, for ThePiinifiimsnt ma ^ ,n S out of Procefs otherwife than is above appointed) fhall offend in fuing out of Procefs, making of of an informer Compofition, or other Mifdemeanour, contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Statute, or fhall by miibehnying Colour or Pretence of Procefs, or without Procefs, upon Colour or Pretence of any Matter of Offence himieif in the againft any penal Law, make any Compofition, or take any Money, Reward or Promife of Reward for Ls Suit ,0 &c himfelf, or to the life of any other, without Order or Content of fome of her Majefty's Courts at Weft- minfter; that then he or they fo offending, being thereof lawfully convicted, fhall ftand en the Pillory in fome Market-Town next adjoining where the fame Offence fhall be committed, in the open Market-time, and there remain by the Space of two "Hours; (2) and fhall from and after fuch Conviction for ever be dif- abled topurfue, or be Plaintiff or Informer in, any Suitor Information upon any Statute popular or penal; (3) and mall alfo for every fuch Offence forfeit and lofe ten Pounds of lawful Englifl) Money, the one Half thereof to the Queen's Majefty, her Heirs and Succeffors, and the other Half to the Party grieved thereby, to be recovered in any Court of Record, by Action of Debt or Information; in which no tffoin, What Trices Protection, Injunction or Wager of Law fhall be permitted or allowed : (4) And that Juflices of Oyer and may hear and Terminer, Juftices of Affize in their Circuits, and Juftices of Peace in their Quarter-Seffions, fhall have determine thefe f L ,n Power and Authority to hear and determine all Offences to be committed or done contrary to the true o.rences. Intent and Meaning of this prefent Act. . Purfuing upon V. Provided always, and neverthelefs be it enacted, That it fhall and may be lawful to and for any Per- th. e - S o 1 '.", i:e - . f° n or Perfons grieved by means of any Manner of Maintenance, Champerty, Buying of Titles or Im- rfa'ice Cham'-" hracery, to purfue upon any the Statutes provided and fet'forth againft Maintenance, Champerty, Buying perty,'&c. °f Titles or Imbracery, as he or they might have done before the Making of this Act; any Thing in this Act contained to the contrary in any wife notwithftanding. Penalties given VI. Provided alfo. That this Act fhall not extend to any Suit already depending, (2) nor fhall reftrain to Perfons cei- any certain Perfon, Body Politick or Corporate, to whom or to whofe Ufe any Forfeiture, Penalty or Suit is or fhall be fpecially limited or granted by Virtue of any Statute, and not generally to any Perfon that will fue, but that every fuch certain Perfon, Body Politick or Corporate, which might fue or inform, as if this Act were not made, may in fuch Cafe fue, inform and purfue, as he or they might have done if this Act were never had nor made. to'eTibk'i, 5 VII. And provided alfo, That neither this Act, nor any Thing therein contained, fhall in any wife formation. ' " extend to any fuch Officers of Record, as have in reipect of their Offices heretofore lawfully ufed to exhibit 2iia-w,P.c.c.z6. Informations or fue upon penal Laws, (2) nor to any Officers informing or purfuing for Matters only con- cerning his or their Offices, (3) but that they and every of them may inform and purfue in that Behalf, as they rrjight have done before the making of this Act; any Thing in this Act contained to the contrary in any wife notwithftanding. VIII. This Act to take Force and Effect from the Feaft of E 'after next coming, and from thenceforth to endure unto the End of the firPc Seffion of the next Parliament. [Made perpetual by 27 Eliz. c. 10. 31 Fwthin.Prc- Eliz. C. 5.] vjhns relating to Informers, 29 El. c. 5. §.21. 21 Jic, 1, c. 4. 4 £f 5 W. & M . c. 18. and <} Ann, c. 20. CAP. VI. An Act for Maintenance of the Colleges in the Univerfities, and of Winchefter and Eaton. tain, and not generally lvieaaow or i aicure aocn or man appsream, except mar. rne one tnxu rart ac the lean 01 rne oia ivenr. De referved and paid in Corn for the faid Colleges, Cathedral Church, Halls and Houfes; that is to fay, in good Wheat, after fix Shillings and eight Pence the Quarter or under, and good Malt at five Shillings the Quarter or under, to be delivered yearly upon Days prefixed, at the faid Colleges, Cathedral Church, Halls or Houfes; (3) and for Default thereof, " to pay to the faid Colleges, Cathedral Church, mim- x~i:ii!S or nuuics; ^ •(,/ anu joi ueiuuti. uiereoi, to pay iu uic unu v^uiieges, v_.iiuicuiai ^,11 Halls or Houfes, in ready Money, at the Election of the faid Leffees, their Executors, Ad fixators and Affigns, after the Rate of the heft Wheat and Malt in the Market of Cambridge, for the Rents that are to be paid to the Ufe of the Houfe or Houfes there; and in the Market of Oxford, for the Rents that are to be paid to the Ufe of the Houfe or Houfes there; and in the Market of Winchejhr, for the Rents that are to be paid to the Ufe of the Houfe or Houfes t:.ere; and in the Market of JVindfor, for the 3 Rents