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 2o8 C. 2-5. Anno decimo tertio Caroli II. A. D. 1661. CAP. II. An Ad for Repeal of an A61 of Parliament, intituled, Jn A£l for difenabling all Perfons in Holy Orders to exercife arty Temporal JurifdiStion or Authority. i6 Car. I. e. 17. ' T X 7 H E R E A S at the Parliament begun at Weflminjler the third Day of November in the fixteenth c yy Year of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lord King Charles of ElefTed Memory, fince deceafed, ' an A&. of Parliament was made, intituled. An Aii for aifenahling all Perfons in Holy Orders to exercife ■' any Tetnporal Jurifdiciion or Authority ; (2) which A<ft hatn made feveral j^.l 'aerations prejudicial to the ' Conftitution and antient Rights of Parliament, and contrary to the Laws Ci this Land, and is by Ex- ' perience found otherwife inconvenient ;' (3) Be it enacted by the King's moil excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords and Commons in this prelent Parliament aflembled, and by the Authority of the fame. That the faid A<5t, intituled. An Acl for difenabling all Perfons in Holy Orders to exercife any Temporal Jurifdi£fion or Authority, and every Claule, Matter and Thing therein con- tained, ihall be and is hereby from henceforth repealed, annulled and made void to all Intents and Purpoles whatfoever. CAP. in. £ X p. II Car. 1. c. II. An A<5V for the Declaring, Vefting and Settling of all fuch Monies, Goods and other Things, in liis MajelKr, which were received, levied or collefted in thefe late Times, and are remaining in the Hands or Pofleffion of any Treafurers, Receivers, CoUeftors or others, not pardoned by the Ad: of Oblivion. Goods and Monies levied fince the thirtieth oi January 1642. and not pardoned, are veiled in his Ma- jefty. The Revenues of the Churches in Tf^les to be accounted for. Commiffions for Difcovery. Perfons accountable enabled to fue for and levy all Arrears, Provifo, none to be queftioned but upon feme Profecution begun before the twenty-fourth of ya»^ 1662. GAP. IV. An A6t for a free and voluntary Pcefent to his Majefty. EXP. Provifo, declar- V. AND be it hereby declared. That no Commiffions or Aids of this Nature can be ifllied out or ing no Commif- ^ £^ levied, but by Authority of Parliament ; and that this Adt, and the Supply hereby granted, Ihall turTbuVby Au- ^°' ^^ drawn into Example for the Time to come, i R. 3. cap. 2. tMoriry of Par- Jiament. C A P. V. An Aft againft Tumults and Diforders, upon Pretence of preparing or prefenting publick Petitions, or other Addrefles to his Majefty or the Parliament. Tumultuous and' T 7 HE RE AS it hath been found by fad Experience, that tumultuous and other diforderly foli- diforderiyprepa- < yy citing and procuring of Hands by private Perfons to Petitions, Complaints, Remonftrances and K',"eirocca°"on * ' Declarations, and other Addreffes to the King, or to both or either Houfes of Parliament, for Alteration of the Lite Wars ' of Matters ellablilhed by Law, Redrefs of pretended Grievances in Church or State, or other publick and Calamities. « ConcernmeiUs, have bteen made Ufe of to ferve the Ends of faflious and feditious Perfons gotten into ' Confulions and Calamities in this Nation ;' for preventing the like Mifchiefs for the Future, No Perfon after H- ^^ '^ ena<5ted by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Confent of the Lords and the iftof Aug. Commons affembled in Parliament, and by the Authority of the fame. That no Perfon or Perfons what- i66i. ihiilfoli- foever ihall from and after the firft of Aiigujl one thoufand fix hundred fixty and one, folicite, labour any Peution/* °'' procure the getting of Hands, or other Confent, of any Perfons above the Number of twenty or &c. for altering more, to any Petition, Complaint, Remonftrance, Declaration, or other Addrefs to the King, or both or »"y ^l^'p^*^ t either Houfes of Parliament, for Alteration of Matters eftablift-ied by Law in Church or State, unlefs the or State. ""^^ Matter thereof have been firlt confented unto and ordered by three or more Juftices of that County, or Nov lor. by the major Part of the Grand Jury of the County or Divifion of the County where the fame flatter iCr. 37. j^j]j arife, at their publick Aflizes, or General Quarter-Seflions, or if arifing in London, by the Lord P°°oIi.^' Mayor, Aldermen and Commons in Common-Council affembled ; (2) and that no Perfon or Perfons whatfoever Ihall repair to his Majefty, or both or either of the Houfes of Parliament, upon Pretence of prcftnting or delivering any Petition, Complaint, Remonftrance or Declaration, or other Addreffes, ac- companied with exceffive Number of People, nor at any one Time with above the Number of ten Per- fons ; upon Pain of incurring a Penalty not exceeding the Sum of one hundred Pounds in Money, and tliree Months Imprifjnment without Bail or Mainprize for every Offence ; which Offence to be pru- fecuted at the Court of King's Bench, or at the Affixes or General Quarter-Seffions, widiin fix Months after the Offence committed, and proved by two or more credible Witnelles. Ffovifo. Iljf- Provided always, That this A'% or any Thing therein contained, (hall not be conftrued to extend to debar or hindsr an ^' Perfon or Perfons, not exceeding the Number of Twenty aforefaid, to i^refent any publick or private Grievance or Complaint to any Member or Members of Parliament after his Eletition, and during the Continuance of the Parliament, or to the King's Majefty, for any Remedv to ' be
 * Power, to the Violation of the publick Peace, and have been a great Means of the late unhappy Wars,