reside in Ireland, or if in Great Britain, to one of his majesty's principal secretaries of state; and in case any person shall offend in the premises, he shall forfeit and pay to his majesty, for every calendar month during which he shall remain in the united kingdom without having delivered such notice or statement as is herein before required, the sum of fifty pounds. XXIX. And be it further enacted, that if any jesuit, or member Jesuits, &c. of any such religious order, community, or society as aforesaid, the realm, to coming into shall, after the commencement of this act, come into this realm, he be banished. shall be deemed and taken to be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being thereof lawfully convicted, shall be sentenced and ordered to be banished from the united kingdom for the term of his natural life. into the XXX. Provided always, and be it further enacted, that in case Natural born any natural born subject of this realm, being at the time of the com- ing jesuits, subjects, bemencement of this act a jesuit, or other member of any such religious may return order, community, or society as aforesaid, shall, at the time of the kingdom and commencement of this act, be out of the realm, it shall be lawful for be registered such person to return or to come into this realm; and upon such his return or coming into the realm he is hereby required, within the space of six calendar months after his first returning or coming into the united kingdom, to deliver such notice or statement to the clerk of the peace of the county or place where he shall reside, or his deputy, for the purpose of being so registered and transmitted, as hereinbefore directed; and in case any such person shall neglect or refuse so to do, he shall for such offence forfeit and pay to his majesty, for every calendar month during which he shall remain in the united kingdom without having delivered such notice or statement, the sum of fifty pounds. secretaries cences to to come into same. XXXI. Provided also, and be it further enacted, that, notwith- Theprincipal standing any thing hereinbefore contained, it shall be lawful for any of state may one of his majesty's principal secretaries of state, being a protestant, grant liby a licence in writing, signed by him, to grant permission to jesuits, &c. any jesuit, or member of any such religious order, community, or the kingdom; society as aforesaid, to come into the united kingdom, and to remain and may therein for such period as the said secretary of state shall think revoke the proper, not exceeding in any case the space of six calendar months; and it shall also be lawful for any of his majesty's principal secretaries of state to revoke any licence so granted before the expiration of the time mentioned therein, if he shall so think fit; and if any such person to whom such licence shall have been granted shall not depart from the united kingdom within twenty days after the expiration of the time mentioned in such licence, or if such licence shall have been revoked, then within twenty days after notice of such revocation shall have been given to him, every person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and being thereof lawfully convicted shall be sentenced and ordered to be banished from the united kingdom for the term of his natural life. licences to be XXXII. And be it further enacted, that there shall annually be Accounts of laid before both houses of parliament an account of all such licences laid before as shall have been granted for the purpose hereinbefore mentioned parliament. within the twelve months then next preceding. Admitting persons as members of such religi ous orders deemed a XXXIII. And be it further enacted, that in case any jesuit, or member of any such religious order, community, or society as aforesaid, shall, after the commencement of this act, within any part of the united kingdom, admit any person to become a regular ecclesimisdemeanor astic, or brother or member of any such religious order, community, or society, or be aiding or consenting thereto, or shall administer or cause to be administered, or be aiding or assisting in the administering or taking, any oath, vow, or engagement purporting or intended to bind the person taking the same to the rules, ordinances, or ceremonies of such religious order, community, or society, every person offending in the premises in England or Ireland shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and in Scotland shall be punished by fine and imprisonment. Any person 60 admitted a member of a religious to be banished. The party offending majesty; XXXIV. And be it further enacted, that in case any person shall, after the commencement of this act, within any part of this united kingdom, be admitted or become a jesuit, or brother or member of any other such religious order, community, or society as aforesaid, such person shall be deemed and taken to be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being thereof lawfully convicted shall be sentenced and ordered to be banished from the united kingdom for the term of his natural life. XXXV. And be it further enacted, that in case any person senmay be ban- tenced and ordered to be banished under the provisions of this act ished by his shall not depart from the united kingdom within thirty days after the pronouncing of such sentence and order, it shall be lawful for his majesty to cause such person to be conveyed to such place out of the united kingdom as his majesty, by the advice of his privy council, shall direct. and if at large after XXXVI. And be it further enacted, that if any offender, who three months shall be so sentenced and ordered to be banished in manner aforemay be trans- said, shall, after the end of three calendar months from the time ported for life. Nottoextend to female societies. Penalties how to be recovered. Act may be altered this session. Commence such sentence and order hath been pronounced, be at large within any part of the united kingdom, without some lawful cause, every such offender being so at large as aforesaid, on being thereof lawfully convicted, shall be transported to such place as shall be appointed by his majesty, for the term of his natural life. XXXVII. Provided always, and be it enacted, that nothing herein contained shall extend or be construed to extend in any manner to affect any religious order, community, or establishment consisting of females bound by religious or monastic vows. XXXVIII. And be it further enacted, that all penalties imposed by this act shall and may be recovered as a debt due to his majesty, by information to be filed in the name of his majesty's attorney general for England or for Ireland, as the case may be, in the courts of exchequer in England or Ireland respectively, or in the name of his majesty's advocate general in the court of exchequer in Scotland. XXXIX. And be it further enacted, that this act, or any part thereof, may be repealed, altered, or varied at any time within this present session of parliament. XL. And be it further enacted, that this act shall commence and ment of act. take effect at the expiration of ten days from and after the passing thereof. Sacrilege, SACRILEGE. 7 & 8 GEORGE 4, CAP. 29, SEC. 10.—An act for consolidating and amending the laws in England relative to larceny and other offences connected therewith. X. Be it enacted, that if any person shall break and enter any when capital. church or chapel, and steal therein any chattel, or having stolen any chattel in any church or chapel, shall break out of the same, every such offender, being convicted thereof, shall suffer death as a felon. 9 GEORGE 4, CAP. 55, SEC. 10.—An act for consolidating and amending the laws in Ireland relative to larceny, and other offences connected therewith. Stealing in or from a church, with breaking in or out, felony, with death. c. 29. X. Be it enacted, that if any person shall break and enter any church, meeting house, chapel, or other place of divine worship, and shall steal therein or therefrom any chattel, or having stolen any chattel in or from any church, meeting house, chapel, or other place of divine worship, shall break out of the same, every such offender, being convicted thereof, shall suffer death as a felon. 5 & 6 WILLIAM 4, CAP. 81.—An act for abolishing capital punishments in cases of letter stealing and sacrilege. Whereas 7 & 8 G. 4, by an act passed in the seventh and eighth years of the reign of king George the fourth, intituled an act for consolidating and amending the laws in England relative to larceny and other offences connected 9 G. 4, c. 55. therewith, and by another act made and passed in the ninth year of his said majesty's reign, intituled an act for consolidating and amending the laws in Ireland relative to larceny and other offences connected therewith, it is amongst other things enacted, that if any person shall break and enter any church or chapel, and steal therein any chattel, or having stolen any chattel in any church or chapel shall break out of the same, every such offender, being convicted thereof, shall suffer death as a felon: and whereas it is expedient that a lesser punishment than that of death should be provided for the punishment of the offenders convicted of any of the offences so specified in the said act of the fifty-second year of the reign of his late majesty king George the third, and in the said act of the seventh and eighth years of the reign of king George the fourth: be it therefore enacted by the king's most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same. So much of that so much of each of the said acts as inflicts the punishment of death upon persons convicted of any of the offences therein and herein before specified shall be and the same is hereby repealed, and of death for that from and after the passing of this act every person convicted of of the offences in the said act so specified, or of aiding or abetting, counselling or procuring the commission thereof, shall be liable to be transported beyond the seas for life, or for any term not less tion substi- than seven years, or to be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, in the common gaol or house of correction for any term not exceeding four years. the recited acts as inflicts the punishment letter steal ing and sa crilege re transporta tuted. any SANCTUARIES. 21 HENRY 8, CAP. 2.—An act that abjured persons shall be marked in the right hand with the sign of an A.-See Title—“ ABJURATION,” vol. i. p. 66. 22 HENRY 8, CAP. 14.-For abjurations and sanctuaries.-See Title- ABJURATION," vol. i. p. 67. 26 HENRY 8, CAP. 13, Sec. 3.—An act whereby offences be made high treason, and taking away all sanctuaries for all manner of high treasons. III. To the intent that all treasons should be the more dread, hated and detested to be done by any person or persons, and also because it is a great boldness and an occasion to ill disposed persons, to adventure and embrace their malicious intents and enterprises, which all true subjects ought to study to eschew: be it No offender therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, that none offender in in high treaany kinds of high treasons whatsoever they be, their aiders, con- have the senters, counsellors nor abettors, shall be admitted to have the sanctuary. benefit or privilege of any manner of sanctuary, considering that matters of treasons touch so nigh both the surety of the king our sovereign lord's person, and his heirs and successors. son benefit of being a great ders, rapes, 27 HENRY 8, CAP. 19.-An act limiting an order for sanctuaries, and sanctuary persons.-Where upon trust of sanctuaries, and the Sanctuaries licentious liberties that heretofore have been and yet daily be used encouragein the same, divers persons have been the more bold to perpetrate ment to murand commit many detestable murders, rapes, robberies, thefts, and robberies,&c. other mischievous, detestable and abominable deeds, for that they have been always relieved, aided and succoured by the sanctuaries, whensoever, and as oft as they or any of them have offended in any of the premises, to the most grievous displeasure of Almighty God, tuary person upper gar and extreme detriment, and hurt of the king's subjects: in avoiding Enacted, that of such presumptuous boldness it is enacted, ordained and established by the king our sovereign lord, with the assent of his lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this present parliament assembled, and by authority of the same, that all and singular per- Every sancson or persons, which now be, or at any time hereafter shall be shall wear a privileged in any sanctuary, within any of the king's dominions, for badge on the murder or felony, from the first day of May next coming, shall ment, daily, whensoever he or they be without the house or mansion, wherein they have their lodging, wear a badge or cognizance, by the governor of every sanctuary to be assigned and appointed, openly upon their upper garment, of the compass in length and breadth of ten inches; upon pain that they and every of them, whensoever, and and, being as often as any of them being out of the said house or mansion, the house wherein he hath his said lodging, shall be found and taken without without it, the same badge or cognizance, clearly to lose and forfeit his or their privilege of privilege and advantage of sanctuary. And that it shall be lawful sanctuary, to all and singular the king's subjects to apprehend and take every mitted to such offender and offenders, being without his badge or cognizance, tried. found out of shall lose the and be com gaol, and |