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AN ACT AND DECLARATION For putting the LAWES againſt Prieſts and Jeſuites in ſpeedy and effectuall Execution.

Munday, March 12. 1659.

ORdered by the Parliament, That this Act and Declaration be forthwith Printed and Publiſhed.

THOMAS St. NICHOLAS, Clerk of the Parliament.

seal of the Commonwealth

LONDON, Printed by John Streater, and John Macock, Printers to the Parliament, 1659.
AN ACT AND DECLARATION FOR Putting the Lawes againſt Prieſts and Jeſuites in ſpeedy and effectuall Execution.

FOr as much as the Lawes have not of late time been effectually put in Execution againſt Seminaries, Ieſuits, and Romiſh Prieſts, whereby they have lately, more than heretofore, taken the boldneſs to come into this Commonwealth in great numbers, to the intent to ſtirr up and move Sedition, Rebellion, and open Hoſtility therein, to the endangering of the peace of this Nation, and ſeducing of the good People thereof from the true Religion eſtabliſhed in this Commonwealth, to the Romiſh Idolatry and Superſtition. The Parliament taking the ſame into their conſideration, do hereby Publiſh and Declare, That all Laws and Statutes in force againſt all Ieſuits, Seminary-Prieſts, or other ſuch Prieſts, Deacons, or Religious or Eccleſiaſticall Perſons whatſoever, made, ordained, or profeſſed, or hereafter to be made, ordained, or profeſſed by any Authority or Iuriſdiction, derived, challenged, or pretended from the See of Rome, by or of what Name, Title, or Degree ſoever the ſame ſhall be called or known, ſhall be put into ſpeedy and effectual Execution, and againſt the Harbourers, Concealors, Abettors, and Aiders of them. And the Parliament doth hereby further require all Iudges, Iuſtices, Magiſtrates, Sheriffs, and other Officers and Miniſters intruſted with the Execution of the Laws, to take notice hereof, and to put the ſame in Execution accordingly. And for the more effectual putting the premiſſes in Execution, and better encouragement of any diſcovery of any the perſons aforeſaid: Be it hereby Enacted and Declared, That he or they that ſhall hereafter firſt diſcover to any Iudge or Iuſtice of Peace any the Perſons aforeſaid, and that by reaſon thereof any of the ſaid Offenders be taken, convicted, or attainted, That then he or they, that have made ſuch Diſcovery, ſhall, immediately after ſuch Conviction, have a Certificate from the Iudge or Iuſtice, before whom ſuch Conviction ſhall happen, to be directed to the Sheriff, or other Officer of any County, Limit, or Place where ſuch Conviction ſhall be; commanding the Sheriff, or other Officer, to pay him or them that ſhall firſt make ſuch diſcovery, twenty pounds; which Warrant and Payment ſhall be effectual in the Law for that purpoſe, and a ſufficient diſcharge in that behalf for the Sheriff or other Officer, upon his Accompt, and that the Diſcoverer of ſuch perſons ſhall be free from the Penalties which he may have incurred by any of the ſaid Laws and Statutes.

Munday, March 12. 1659.

ORdered by the Parliament, That this Act and Declaration be forthwith Printed and Publiſhed.

THOMAS St. NICHOLAS, Clerk of the Parliament.