A. D. 1623. Anno vicefimo primo Jacobi I. C. 5^ 6. ^5 Sovereign Lord the King, of a Subfidy granted to the King, of Tonnage, Poundage, Wool, &c. (4) • J^C- <=• 33- nor for or concerning the concealing or defrauding the King, his Heirs or Succeffors, oi zny CuSiom, FarthcProvifiont Tonnage Poundage, Subfidy, Import or Prifage; (5) or for tranfporting of Gold, Silver,. Ordnance, '•'/"('"^ /««/!., Powder, Shot, Munition of all Sorts, Wool, Wool-fells or Leatl^pl, but that fuch Offence may be laid^^gS^;^^' or alledged to be in any County, at the Pleaftire of any Informer i any Thing ia this Ad to the con- 9 J„„', c7io. trary notwithftanding. 18 El. c. 5. C A P. V. An A£t that Sheriffs, their Heirs, Executors and Adminiftrators, having a ^ietus eft, fhall be abfolutely difcharged of their Accounts.
- TT^Orafmuch as divers Sheriffs of feveral Counties within this Realm of England and Dominion oi Wales ^^ Ed. 4. c. i,
- X' have been of late much troubled and vexed long Time after that they have paffed their Accounts, ^^g^'w a**
- and had their ^ietus ejl, and charged a-new with Arrearages, Debts and other Sums of Money pre- sheriff (hall dif-
' tended to have been by them levied and received, and not formerly accounted for, to the great Dif- charge him of
- couragement of others, to take upon them the faid Office:^ (2) Be it therefore ena<fted by the King's ^"^'^^"['^"J'^jj,
moft excellent Majefty, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame. That whenfoever any Sheriff or Sheriffs within this Realm, of £«j-/i7«i or Dominion oi Wales, upon, the Paffmg of their Accounts, fliall have thclv ^ietus ejf. That then and from thenceforth the laid Sheriff or Sheriffs, their Heirs, Executors and Adminiftrators, Lands, Tenements, Goods and Chattels, fhall be abfolutely difcharged' of all Manner of Sum or Sums of Mo- ney which he or they (hall have fo levied or received, and pretended not to be accounted for within the faid Accourit whereupon he or they had their ^ietus eji, unlefs fuch Sheriff or Sheriffs (liall be called xhe officer that in Queltion for fuch Sum or Sums of Money pretended to be levied and received, and not accounted vexeih the sha- . for, within the Space of four Years after the Time of their faid Account and ^ietus eji: (3) And that riff contrary to every Officer or Minifter that fhall fend out- or caufe to be fent out any Writ or Procefs, or by whofe j^j.^^^^'^j^l^*" Default any Writ or Procefs fhall be fent out, contrary to this Ad, fhall for every fuch Offence forfeit Farther provide* and pay to the Party grieved forty Pounds, with his Cofi and Damages ; the faid Sum of forty Pounds for by 13 & 14 and the faid Cofts and Damages to be recovered by any Adiori of 'Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information, to ^^] |" '• "' be brought and profecuted in the Court of the King's Bench or the Court of the Common Pleas, at ' * the Eledion of the Plaintiff: Wherein no Privilege, Protection, Eflbin or Wager of Law fhall be allowed fo the Deferwlant. II. And further be it enafted, Tliat every fuch Offender being three Times lawfully convidted of any For thethini fuch Offence or Offences, upon the Trial of fuch Adion of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information, fhall for °f'j"'=* ^^i' ^'^ fuch his Offence or Offences contrary to the true Meaning of this Adf, be utterly difabled to be or eon- tinue in any""' tinue in any Office or Imployment in the faid Court of Exchequer or in any other Court of J-uftice Office. Whatibever. FaithlrPnmyioitr relathig heretOj ^Gm.i, c,t£, 6Gei,i. ctz, fsS^s^r »o C««. z. c. 37. nGai,i,c.ifi.felf,Aiitni^iCio,i,c,ii[,. CAP. VL An A£t concerning "Women convicted of fmall Felonies.
"Whereas by the Laws of this Realm the Benefit of Clergy is not allowed to Women con- For Felony victed of Felony, by Reafon whereof many Women do fuffer Death for fmall Caufes;' (z) where ciergy Bie it enaded by the Authority of this prefent Parliament, That any Woman being lawfully convided by MaiT rtie Wot ' her Confeffiori or by the Verdid of twelve Men, of or for the felonious Taking of any Money, Goods man 'ftiaii be or. Chattels, above the Value of Twelve-pence, and under the Value of ten ShiUings, or as acceffary^'"'"*"' '"'*'= to any fuch Offence, the faid Offence being no Burglary nor Robbery in or near the Highway, nor ,^"„* p^ c_ ,,g^ the felonious Taking of any Money, Goods, or Chattels, from the Perfon of any Man or Woman pri- vily, without his or their Knowledge, but only fuch an Offence, as in the like Caf&a Man might, have his Clergy, fhall for the firfl Offence be branded and marked in the Hand, upon the Brawn-of the left Thumb with a. hot burning Iron, having a Roman T upon the faid Iron : The faid- Mark- to be mad& by the Gaoler openly in the Court before the Judge; (3) and alfo to be further punilhed by Impri- fonment. Whipping, Stocking or fending to the Houfe of Corredtion, in fuch Sort, Manner and Form, and for fo long Time (not exceeding the Space of one whole Year) as the Judge, Judges or other Ju- fiices before whom (be fliall be fo convidledi or which fhall hav^ Authority in the- Caufe, (halMn th«ir Difcretion. think meet, according to the Quality of the Offence, and then to be delivered out of.Prifon ibrthat Offence; any Law, Cuftom or Ufage to the contrary notwithflanding. (4) This AcS' to con- tinue until the End' of the firft- Seffion of the next Parliament. [^3 Car. i. c. 4. continiied until the End of the firft Seffion of the next Parliament, and faitha: contiHuedby i6 Car. u «♦ 4.] ; CAP,
