PENAL LAWS IN FORCE AGAINST ROMAN CATHOLICS, 1678 1. 1 _Eliz._ _cap._ 1 (Act of Supremacy), 1559. No foreign potentate shall exercise ecclesiastical power in the Queen’s dominions. All the Queen’s servants, all temporal and eccles. officers, all with degrees in the universities shall take the oath of supremacy. None shall maintain the jurisdiction of any foreign potentate in the Queen’s dominions under penalty of fine and imprisonment for the first offence, for the second of Præmunire (_i.e._ to be put out of the King’s protection and forfeit all goods and chattels to the crown), for the third of high treason. 2. 5 _Eliz._ _cap._ 1, 1562. None shall maintain the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome within the Queen’s dominions under penalty of Præmunire. Two judges of assize or justices of the peace in sessions have power to hear and determine this offence. All members of Parliament, schoolmasters, attorneys, officers of the courts, etc., shall take the oath of supremacy on penalty of Præmunire for the first and high treason for the second offence of refusal. 3. 13 _Eliz._ _cap._ 1, 1571. All obtaining or putting in use any Bull of absolution or reconciliation from the church of Rome shall be guilty of high treason, their concealers of misprision of treason, their comforters of Præmunire. All bringing into the Queen’s dominions crosses, beads, etc., shall be guilty of Præmunire. 4. 23 _Eliz._ _cap._ 1, 1581. All persons pretending to have power to absolve the Queen’s subjects from their natural obedience and converting them to the church of Rome shall be guilty of high treason, and their aiders and maintainers of misprision of treason. None shall say mass under penalty of two hundred marks’ fine and a year’s imprisonment, or hear mass under penalty of one hundred marks’ fine and a year’s imprisonment. Every person above sixteen years of age who forbears to attend church regularly (according to the Act of Uniformity 1 Eliz. c. 2 § 3) shall forfeit to the Queen the sum of £20 monthly. 5. 27 _Eliz._ _cap._ 2, 1584. All Jesuits, seminary priests, or priests in orders from the see of Rome, being born within the Queen’s dominions and returning into or remaining in them, shall be guilty of high treason.