The Popish Plot: A study in the history of the reign of Charles IIPollock, John
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The Popish Plot: A study in the history of the reign of Charles II
Pollock, John
Popish Plot, 1678
All others educated in Roman Catholic seminaries and not yet
having received orders shall be guilty of high treason, unless
they return within six months after proclamation made in
London and take the oath of supremacy. Penalty for concealing
a priest or Jesuit for more than twelve days, fine and
imprisonment during pleasure.
6. 29 _Eliz._ _cap._ 9, 1587.
All Popish recusants shall, on conviction, pay into the
exchequer twenty pounds a month: in default, two-thirds of
their goods and two-thirds of their lands shall be forfeited
to the Queen.
7. 35 _Eliz._ _cap._ 2, 1592.
All Popish recusants above sixteen years of age shall, on
conviction, repair to their usual dwellings and not remove
thence more than five miles, on pain of forfeiting all goods,
lands, and annuities.
A Popish recusant, not having land worth twenty marks and
goods worth forty pounds yearly, and not complying with this,
shall abjure the kingdom, or not abjuring the kingdom, shall
be adjudged a felon.
A Jesuit or priest refusing to answer shall be committed to
prison until he do answer.
All married women shall be bound by this act, save only in the
case of abjuration.
8. 1 _Jac. I_, _cap._ 4, 1603.
All statutes of Queen Elizabeth confirmed and appointed to
be put in execution. The heir of a Popish ancestor, not
conforming before the age of sixteen years, shall suffer the
penalties of the above statutes and forfeit two-thirds of his
land to the King to answer the arrears of twenty pounds a
month, according to the act of 23 Eliz. cap. 1.
None shall send a child beyond seas to be instructed in the
Roman Catholic religion, on pain of the fine of one hundred
pounds.
9. 3 _Jac. I_, _cap._ 4, 1606.
The recusant that conforms shall receive the sacrament within
one year of his conforming and once in every year, on pain to
forfeit for the first offence twenty pounds, for the second
forty, and so on. In forementioned cases the King may at will
refuse the twenty pounds a month from a Popish recusant and
take the two-thirds of his lands, saving only the recusant’s
mansion-house.
The Bishop of the diocese or the justices of the peace
may tender the oath of allegiance to any persons (except
noblemen), being eighteen years of age and being convicted or
indicted for recusancy.
Penalty for refusal to take the oath, Præmunire.
To withdraw the King’s subjects from their natural obedience,
to reconcile them to the church of Rome, or to move them to
promise it, is high treason.
None shall be punished for his wife’s offence.
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