or town corporate where the faid offence or offences was fo committed, made or done, there to remain without bail or mainprise, by the space of three months then next enfuing, and further to the next quarter-feflions to be holden within the faid fhire, city, borough, liberty or town corporate, next after the end of the faid three months; (2) at which faid quarter-feffions, the faid perfon or perfons fo committed to the gaol as is aforefaid, upon his or their reconciliation and repentance in that behalf before the faid juftices of peace at the faid feffions, shall be delivered and discharged out of prison and gaol, upon fufficient furety of his good abearing and behaviour, to be then and there taken by the said juftices for one whole year then next ensuing, as by the difcretion or discretions of the faid juftices then and there being, or of the more part of them, fhall be thought meet and convenient: (3) and if the faid perfon or perfons fo in Godbolt 246. gaol as is aforefaid, will not be reconciled and repent at the faid pl. 343. quarter-feffions, that then the faid perfon or perfons immediately in time convenient shall be further awarded and committed to the faid gaol by the faid juftices, or by the more part of them, there to remain without bail or mainprife, until he or they fo committed and awarded to gaol as is aforefaid, fhall be reconciled, and be penitent for his or their faid offence or offences. arreit. VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, The penalty That if any perfon or perfons at any time or times after the for rescuing faid xx. day of December, of their own authority and power, an offender, or willingly and unlawfully do rescue any offender or offenders fo difturbing the apprehended, taken or arrested as is aforefaid, or will disturb, hinder or let the faid offender or offenders fo offending as is aforefaid, to be apprehended, taken or arrested, that then every one of the faid refcuers or difturbers fhall fuffer like imprisonment as is aforefaid, and further fhall pay, forfeit and lofe for a fine, for every of his or their faid offences, five pounds to the Queen's majefty, her heirs and fucceffors. VIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, The penalty if That if any of the offenders aforefaid be not taken, apprehended an offender be or arrested immediately in time convenient, as is aforefaid, but not taken, but do escape or go away, that then the faid efcape fhall be law- doth escape. fully prefented before the juftices of peace, in the faid fhire, city, borough, liberty or town corporate, at the next quarterfeffions to be holden where the faid escape was made and fuffered, and that then the inhabitants of the parish where the faid efcape was so suffered, shall forfeit and lose to the Queen's majefty, her heirs and fucceffors, for every fuch efcape five pounds, to be levied and taken as other like amerciaments and fines before this time hath been levied and taken upon any village, hun- 13 Ed. 1. ftat. dred or town, for the escape of any murderer or other felon, for 2. c. I. not making purfuit upon hue and cry, according to the eftatute of 3 H. 7. c. 1. Winchester, and the eftatute made and provided in the third year of the worthy King Henry the Seventh. IX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That What magiall and fingular juftices of peace, juftices of aflife, juftices of ftrates shall Oyer have authority Oyer and Determiner, and all and fingular mayors, bailiffs and to enquire of justices of peace within any city, borough or town corporate in and punish the offenders. any parts within this realm, within the limits of their commiffion or commiffions, fhall have full power and authority by virtue of this act, after the faid xx. day of December, to enquire of all and fingular the offences and mifdemeanours aforefaid, and to hear and determine the fame, and to fet the fines and amerciaments of the said offender or offenders as is aforefaid. faved. The jurifdicX. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the authority tion of the law aforefaid, That this act, or any thing therein contained fhall ecclefiaftical not in any wife extend to abrogate and take away the authority, jurifdiction, "power and punishments of the ecclefiaftical laws, now standing and remaining in their force, of or for the punishment of any the offences and misdemeanours aforesaid, but that the authority, power, jurifdictions and punishments of the faid ecclefiaftical laws of and for any the offences and misdemeanours aforefaid shall stand in full power and strength, and to be used and exercised in all and in every thing, as though this act had never been had and made; this prefent act, or any thing therein contained to the contrary thereof in any wife notwithstanding. There fhall be but one pu per XI. Provided always, and be it enacted, That whatsoever fon offending in the premiffes, fhall for any of the offences nishment for afore recited receive punishment of the ordinary, having a teftione offence. monial thereof under the faid ordinary's feal, fhall not for the fame offence eftfoons be convicted before the juftice: (2) and in like wife receiving for the faid offences punishment by the juftice, he fhall not for the fame offence eftfoons receive punishment of the ordinary; any thing in this act to the contrary notwithstanding. CAP. IV. An act touching certain writings made from the fixth of July W II. Nevertheless the fame her Highness most lawful possession was for a time difturbed and difquieted by the traiterous rebellion and ufurpation of the lady Jane Dudley, wife unto Guilford Dudley, Efq; otherwife called the lady Jane Grey, and other her complices, during the time of the which faid rebellion and ufurpation, divers eftatutes, recognifances, indentures, obligations, acquittances, grants, patents, evidences and other writings, were made and devifed between and to fun dry dry of the fubjects of this realm, whereupon divers questions, fuits and doubts may hereafter arife, grow and enfue to many of the Queen's bighness true loving fubjects: for the avoiding of all which ambiguities and doubts which by reason thereof may be stirred and moved, &c. Obligations, writings, &c. made from the fixth of July laft, and before the first of August, fhall be good and effectual, excepting fuch as were made by the lady Jane Dudley. No patents, grants, writings, &c. made by the lady Jane Dudley fince the fixth day of July last shall be good. CAP. V. An act for the limitation of prescription in certain cafes. ftatute of li WH HERE at a parliament holden at Weftminster the twenty- Certain writs fourth day of July in the thirty-fecond year of the reign of the and acts late King of famous memory, King Henry the Eighth, it was enacted, whereunto the That no manner of perfon or perfons should from thenceforth fue, have mitation made or maintain any writ of right, or make any prefcription, title or claim 32 H. 8. c. 2. of, to or for any manors, lands, tenements, rents, annuities, commons, thall not expenfions, portions corrodies or other hereditaments of the poffeffion of tend. his or their ancestor or predeceffor, and declare and alledge any further feifin or poffeffion of his or their ancestor or predeceffor but only of the feifin or poffeffion of his ancestor or predeceffor which hath been, or then was or fhall be, feifed of the said manors, lands, tenements, rents, annuities, commons, penfions, portions, corrodies or other hereditaments within threefcore years next before the teste of the fame writ, or next before the faid prefcription, title or claim, fued, commenced, brought, made or had after the making of the fame act: 8. c. 2. II. And where alfo it was further enacted by the authority afore- A rehearsal of faid, amongst other things, That no perfon or persons should after that part of the itat. of 32 H. make any avowry or cognisance for any rent, fuit or fervice, or alledge any feifin of any rent, fuit or fervice, in the fame avowry or cognisance, touching limiin the poffeffion of his or their ancestors or predeceffor or predeceffors, tation of preor in his own poffeffion, or in the poffeffion of any other whofe eftate he fcription. fhould after that pretend or claim to have, above fifty years next be•fore the making of the faid avowry or cognisance. III. And where by the fame act it was also further enacted amongst other things, That if any perfon or perfons at any time after that, did fue any of the faid actions or writs for any manors, lands, tenements or other hereditaments, or make any avowry, cognisance, prefcription, title or claim of or for any rent, fuit, fervice or other hereditaments, and could not prove that he or they, or his or their ancestors or predeceffors were in actual poffeffion and feifin of and in the fame manors, lands, tenements, rents, fuits, fervices, annuities, commons, penfions, portions, corrodies or other hereditaments, at any time or times within the years before limited and appointed in the fame act, in manner and form as is aforefaid; (2) that if the fame feifin were traversed or denied by the party plaintiff, demandant or avowant, or by the party tenant or defendant, that then and after fuch trial therein had, all and every fuch perfon and perfons and their heirs, fhould from thenceforth be utterly barred for ever of all and every the faid writs, actions, avowries, cognisance, prescription, title and claim after that to be fued, had or made of and for the fame manors, lands, tenements, hereditaments or other the premises, or any part of the fame, for the which the Certain doubts the fame action, writ, avowry, cognisance, prescription, title or claim, fhould at any time be had, fued or made: IV. Upon which faid act doubt and ambiguity hath risen and been moved upon moved, whether a writ of right of advowson, a Quare Impedit, the faid ftatute Jure Patronatus, or affife of Darein prefentment, may be mainof 32 H. 8. c. 2. tained by any perfon or perfons, bodies politick or corporate, whereas and acts whereunto the fhall not ex faid ftatute tend. the fame perfon or perfons, bodies politick or corporate, their ancestor or predeceffor, or he or they by whom he or they do claim, cannot lay the Efplees, feifin or prefentment, in him or themselves, or the ancestor or predeceffor of them or any of them, or in him or them by whom he or they do claim, within threefcore years_next before the tefte of the fame writ of right of advowson Quare Impedit or affife of Darein prefentment, and Jure patronatus: (2) and alfo whether any person. or perfons, bodies politick or corporate, having a feigniory by reafon of any caftles, honours, manors, lands, tenements or hereditaments of him or them holden by knights fervice, may maintain a writ of right of ward, or a writ of ravishment of ward, for any caftles, honours, manors, lands, tenements or hereditaments holden by knights fervice, or for the body of any ward that he or they claim by reafon of any fuch tenure by knights fervice, whereas he or they have not been feifed of the fame fervices within threescore years next before the teste of any Certain writs fuch writs: (3) for the explanation and plain declaration whereof, and in avoiding of the faid ambiguities and doubts, be it enacted and declared by the Queen's highness, with the affent of the lords fpiritual, and temporal and the commons in this prefent parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That the faid former act made the faid xxxii. year of the reign of the faid late King Henry, or any article, claufe, fentence or matter therein contained, fhall not extend to any writ of right of advowfon, Quare Impedit or affife of Darein Prefentment, nor Jure Patronatus; (4) nor to any writ of right of ward, writ of ravifhment of ward, for the wardship of the body or for the wardfhip of any caftles, honours, manors, lands, tenements or hereditaments holden by knights fervice, nor to the seisor of the wardship of the body of any ward or wards, or to the feifor or wardship of any caftles, honours, manors, lands, tenements or hereditaments holden by knights fervice; (5) But that all and every perfon and perfons, bodies politick and corporate, their heirs and fucceffors, and the heirs and fucceffors of every them, fhall and may have, maintain and purfue all and fingular the faid writs of right of advowfon, Quare Impedit, affife of Darein Prefentment, fure patronatus, writs of right of ward, ravishment of ward, and alfo feife the wardship both of the body and of the caftles, honours, manors, lands, tenements and hereditaments, holden by knights fervice, in like manner and form, to all intents, conftructions and purposes, as they or any of them fhould or might have done, made or purfued, before the making of the faid act made in the faid xxxij. year, as though the fame act had never been had or made; any thing in the said former act to the contrary notwithstanding. 21 Jac. 1. c. 16. CAP, CAP. VI. An act that the counterfeiting of strange coins being current within this realm, the Queen's highness fign manual, fignet or privy feal, to be adjudged treafon. FOR ORASMUCH as by the laws of this realm fmall and no due and condign punishment is at this prefent time provided for fuch evil difpofed perfons as fball counterfeit or forge fuch kind of gold or silver of other realms, as is not the proper coin of this realm, and yet permitted and fuffered by the Queen our fovereign lady's confent, and heretofore hath been permitted and fuffered by the confent of her most noble progenitors, to be currant in payment within this her realm, nor for fuch perfons as fhall counterfeit the Queen's highness fign manual, or privy fignet or privy feal; by reafon whereof divers evil difpofed perfons are encouraged and boldned daily to perpetrate and commit the faid feveral offences: currant in this II. For remedy whereof be it enacted by our faid fovereign Treafon to lady the Queen, the lords fpiritual and temporal, and the com- forge the coin mons in this present parliament affembled, and by the authority of other realms of the fame, That if any perfon or perfons hereafter falfly realm, or the forge and counterfeit any fuch kind of coin of gold or filver as King's fign is not the proper coin of this realm, and is or shall be currant manual, &c. within this realm by the confent of the Queen, her heirs or fuc- 25 Ed. 3. ceffors (2) Or if any person or perfons at any time hereafter ftat, 5. c. 13. do falfly forge or counterfeit the Queen's fign manual, privy fignet or privy feal; (3) that then every fuch offence thall be deemed and judged high treason: (4) and the offenders therein, their counsellors, procurers, aiders and abettors, being convict according to the laws of this realm of any of the said offences, fhall be likewise deemed and adjudged traitors against the Queen, her heirs and fucceffors, and the realm, and fhall fuffer and have fuch pains of death, forfeiture of lands, goods and chattels, and alfo lose the privilege of all fanctuary, as in the case of high treafon is used and ordained. CA P. VII. An act touching proclamations upon fines. WHEREAS upon fines levied with proclamations doubts have of Fines levied late arifen by reafon of adjournment of terms, in which pro- before the jufclamations should have been made according to the form limited for pro- tices of the clamations upon fines by the ftatute made in the fourth year of King shall be of Henry the Seventh, and were not by reafon of fuch adjournments had force notwithne made, according to the purvey of the fame eftatute: common pleas standing proclamations be not made, by reafon of ad II. Be it therefore enacted, That all fines, as well heretofore levied as hereafter to be levied, before the justices of the common place, of any manors, lands, tenements or other heredita- journments. ments, whereupon the proclamations have not or fhall not, by 4 H. 7. C. 24 reafon of adjournment of any term by writ, be duly made, thall be of as good force, effect and strength to all intents, conftructions and purposes, as if any term heretofore fo adjourned, or that at any time hereafter fhall be fo adjourned, had been holden |