Provided always, and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,
That if any person or persons do, or shall, with force and arms,
wilfully and knowingly oppose, obstruct, or in any manner wilfully and
knowingly lett, hinder, or hurt any person or persons that shall begin
to proclaim, or go to proclaim according to the proclamation hereby
directed to be made, whereby such proclamation shall not be made, that
then every such apposing, obstructing, letting, hindering or hurting
such person or persons, so beginning or going to make such
proclamation, as aforesaid, shall be adjudged felony without benefit of
clergy, and the offenders therein shall be adjudged felons, and shall
suffer death as in case of felony, without benefit of clergy; and that
also every such person or persons so being unlawfully, riotously and
tumultuously assembled, to the number of twelve, as aforesaid, or more,
to whom proclamation should or ought to have been made if the same had
not been hindred, as aforesaid, shall likewise, in case they or any of
them, to the number of twelve or more, shall continue together, and not
disperse themselves within one hour after such lett or hindrance so
made, having knowledge of such lett or hindrance so made, shall be
adjudged felons, and shall suffer death as in case of felony, without
benefit of clergy.
VI.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if after the
said last day of _July_ one thousand seven hundred and fifteen, any
such church or chapel, or any such building for religious worship, or
any such dwelling-house, barn, stable, or other out-house, shall be
demolished or pulled down wholly, or in part, by any persons so
unlawfully, riotously and tumultuously assembled, that then, in case
such church, chapel, building for religious worship, dwelling-house,
barn, stable, or out-house, shall be out of any city or town, that is
either a county of itself, or is not within any hundred, that then the
inhabitants of the hundred in which such damage shall be done, shall be
liable to yield damages to the person or persons injured and damnified
by such demolishing or pulling down wholly or in part; and such damages
shall and may be recovered by action to be brought in any of his
Majesty's courts of record at _Westminster_, (wherein no effoin,
protection or wager of law, or any imparlance shall be allowed) by the
person or persons damnified thereby, against any two or more of the
inhabitants of such hundred, such action for damages to any church or
chapel to be brought in the name of the rector, vicar or curate of such
church or chapel that shall be so damnified, in trust for applying the
damages to be recovered in rebuilding or repairing such church or
chapel; and that judgment being given for the plaintiff or plaintiffs
in such action, the damages so to be recovered shall, at the request of
such plaintiff or plaintiffs, his or their executors or administrators,
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