CLASS I. 787. of the same, That all the laws enacted and in force con- PART II. cerning the observation of the Lord's Day, and repairing 4. to the church thereon, be carefully put in execution; and Stat. 29 that all and every person and persons whatsoever shall on Car. 2. c. 7. every Lord's Day apply themselves to the observation of 3 Car. 1. the same, by exercising themselves thereon in the duties of c. I. piety and true religion, publicly and privately; and that See 2 Bur. no tradesman, artificer, workman, labourer, or other person whatsoever, shall do or exercise any worldly labour, busi- men, artiness, or work of their ordinary callings, upon the Lord's ficers, and Day, or any part thereof (works of necessity and charity only excepted); and that every person being of the age of fourteen years or upwards, offending in the premises, shall, for every such offence, forfeit the sum of five shillings: and None shall that no person or persons whatsoever shall publicly cry, pose to sale shew forth, or expose to sale, any wares, merchandizes, wares. fruit, herbs, goods, or chattels whatsoever upon the Lord's Day, or any part thereof, upon pain that every person so offending shall forfeit the same goods so cried, or shewed forth, or exposed to saleb. labourers. cry or ex coursers, boats, and II. And it is further enacted, That no drover, horse- Drovers, courser, waggoner, butcher, higler, their or any of their horseservants, shall travel or come into his or their inn or lodg- waggoners, ing upon the Lord's Day, or any part thereof, upon pain butchers, that each and every such offender shall forfeit twenty shil- and higlers, lings for every such offence; and that no person or persons barges. shall use, employ, or travel upon the Lord's Day with any Provisions boat, wherry, lighter, or barge, except it be upon extraordinary occasion, to be allowed by some Justice of the Peace W. & M. of the county, or head officer, or some Justice of the Peace c. 22. s. 18. of the city, borough, or town corporate, where the fact & 9 Ann. shall be committed; upon pain that every person so offending shall forfeit and lose the sum of five shillings for every such offence: and that if any person offending in any for coaches, by 5 & 6 c. 23. s. 20. of In • Baking rolls on a Sunday is within the Act. Cowp. 641. By 34 Geo. 3. c. 61. no baker in the city of London, or within twelve miles, shall make, bake, or expose to sale, any bread or rolls, or bake any meat, puddings, pies, or tarts, or in any other manner exercise the trade of a baker, on pain of forfeiting 10s.; and for want of distress, to be com mitted to the House of Correction for seven days: provided that the Act shall not extend to prohibit the selling of bread, or baking meat, puddings, or pies, between nine in the forenoon and one in the afternoon, so as the person requiring the baking thereof carry or send the same to and from the place where baked. By stat. 10 and 11 Will. 3. c. 24. s. 14. an exception is made for the sale of mackarel on Sundays before and after divine service; by stat. 2 Geo. 3. c. 15. which allows fish carriages to pass; by 11 and 12 Will. 3. which allows a certain number of watermen on the Thames to ply; and by stat. 9 Ann. c. 23. which allows hackney coachmen and chairmen to ply. what manner the conviction shall be. No. 4. Stat. 29 The penal ty, how to PART II. the premises shall be thereof convicted before any Justice CLASS I. of the Peace of the county, or the chief officer or officers, or any Justice of the Peace of or within any city, borough, Car. 2. c. 7. or town corporate, where the said offences shall be committed, upon his or their view, or confession of the party, or proof of any one or more witnesses by oath, (which the said be levied. Justices, chief officer or officers, is by this Act authorized to administer,) the said Justice, or chief officer or officers, shall give warrant under his or their hand and seal, to the Constables or Church-wardens of the parish or parishes where such offence shall be committed, to seize the said goods cried, shewed forth, or put to sale as aforesaid, and to sell the same, and to levy the said other forfeitures or penalties, by way of distress and sale of the goods of every such offender distrained, rendering to the said offenders the overplus of the monies raised thereby; and in default of such distress, or in case of insufficiency or inability of the said offender to pay the said forfeitures or penalties, that then shall be set the party offending be set publicly in the stocks, by the space of two hours. And all and singular the forfeitures or penalties aforesaid shall be employed and converted to the use of the poor of the parish where the said offences shall how to be be committed, saving only that it shall and may be lawful disposed of. to and for any such Justice, Mayor, or head officer or officers, out of the said forfeitures or penalties to reward any person or persons that shall inform of any offence against this Act, according to their discretions, so as such reward exceed not the third part of the forfeitures or penalties. In case of insufficiency, the offender in the stocks. The forfeitures, A provision III. Provided, That nothing in this Act contained shall for private extend to the prohibiting of dressing of meat in families, or families, dressing or selling of meat in inns, cooks' shops, or victualhouses, &c. ling-houses, for such as otherwise cannot be provided, nor victualling The prose to the crying or selling of milk before nine of the clock in the morning, or after four of the clock in the afternoon. IV. Provided also, That no person or persons shall be cution to impeached, prosecuted, or molested, for any offence beforementioned in this Act, unless he or they be prosecuted for the same within ten days after the offence committed. be within The hundred not responsible V. Provided, and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person or persons whatsoever which to persons shall travel upon the Lord's Day shall be then robbed, travelling that no hundred or the inhabitants thereof shall be charged with or answerable for any robbery so committed, but the Day; but person or persons so robbed shall be barred from bringing shall make action for the said robbery; any law to the contrary fresh suit any after the notwithstanding: nevertheless, the inhabitants of the coun on the Lord's offenders. No. 4. Stat. 29 ties and hundreds (after notice of any such robbery to them PART II. or some of them given, or after hue and cry for the same to CLASS I. be brought) shall make or cause to be made fresh suit and pursuit after the offenders, with horsemen and footmen, ac- Car. 2. c. 7. cording to the Statute made in the twenty-seventh year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, upon pain of forfeiting to the King's Majesty, his heirs and successors, as much money as might have been recovered against the hundred by the party robbed if this law had not been made. 27 Eliz. c. 13. the Lord's Carthew VI. Provided also, That no person or persons upon the Service of Lord's Day shall serve or execute, or cause to be served or process on executed, any writ, process, warrant, order, judgment, or Day shall decree, (except in cases of treason, felony, or breach of the be void. peace,) but that the service of every such writ, process, 504. warrant, order, judgment, or decree, shall be void to all in- See further tents and purposes whatsoever: and the person or persons so 21 Geo. 3. serving or executing the same shall be as liable to the suit of c. 49. the party grieved, and to answer damages to him for doing thereof, as if he or they had done the same, without any writ, process, warrant, order, judgment, or decree at all. C. CLASS II. STATUTES PREVENTIVE OF BLASPHEMY AND PROFANENESS. Anno 9 & 10 GULIELMI III. Cap. 32.a No. 1. WHEREAS many persons have of late years openly avowed and published many blasphemous and impious opinions, contrary to the doctrines and principles of the Christian religion, greatly tending to the dishonour of Almighty God, and may prove destructive to the peace and welfare of this kingdom: wherefore, for the more effectual suppressing of the said detestable crimes, be it enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That if any person or persons, Persons dehaving been educated in, or at any time having made nying the pro- Trinity, fession of the Christian religion within this realm, shall by &c. being writing, printing, teaching, or advised speaking, deny any convicted Partly repealed by 53 Geo. 3. c. 160. No. 2. post. a No. 1. PART II. one of the Persons in the Holy Trinity to be God, or shall CLASS II. assert or maintain there are more Gods than one, or shall Stat. 9 & 10 deny the Christian religion to be true, or the holy ScripW. 3. c. 32. tures of the Old and New Testament to be of divine authority, and shall, upon indictment or information in any thereof, of his Majesty's Courts at Westminster, or at the Assizes, be thereof lawfully convicted by the oath of two or more office, &c. credible witnesses; such person or persons for the first of disabled to hold any Furtber disabilities if a second time convicted thereof. Limitation tions. fence shall be adjudged incapable and disabled in law, to all intents and purposes whatsoever, to have or enjoy any office or offices, employment or employments, ecclesiastical, civil, or military, or any part in them, or any profit or advantage appertaining to them or any of them: and if any person or persons so convicted as aforesaid shall, at the time of his or their conviction, enjoy or possess any office, place or employment, such office, place, or employment shall be void, and is hereby declared void: and if such person or persons shall be a second time lawfully convicted as aforesaid, of all or any the aforesaid crime or crimes, that then he or they shall from thenceforth be disabled to sue, prosecute, plead, or use any action or information in any court of law or equity, or to be guardian of any child, or executor or administrator of any person, or capable of any legacy or deed of gift, or to bear any office, civil or military, or benefice ecclesiastical for ever within this realm, and shall also suffer imprisonment for the space of three years, without bail or mainprise, from the time of such conviction. II. Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority of prosecu- aforesaid, That no person shall be prosecuted by virtue of this Act, for any words spoken, unless the information of such words shall be given upon oath before one or more Justice or Justices of the Peace, within four days after such words spoken, and the prosecution of such offence be within three months after such information. Offenders on re nouncing their opin III. Provided also, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person or persons, convicted of all or any of the aforesaid crime or crimes, in manner aforesaid, ions in four shall, for the first offence, (upon his, her, or their acknowmonths af- ledgment and renunciation of such offence or erroneous ter convic- opinions, in the same court where such person or persons was or were convicted, as aforesaid, within the space of four months after his, her, or their conviction,) be disfrom penal- charged from all penalties and disabilities incurred by such conviction; any thing in this Act contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. tion, shall be discharged ty, &c. Anno 53 GEO. III. Cap. 160. PART II. No. 2. G. 3. c. 160. 19 G. 3. c. An Act to relieve Persons who impugn the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity from certain Penalties. [21st July 1813.] WHEREAS in the nineteenth year of his present Majesty an Act was passed, intituled An Act for the further 44. Relief of Protestant Dissenting Ministers and Schoolmasters; and it is expedient to enact as herein-after provided; 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, That 1 W. & M. so much of an Act passed in the first year of the reign of Sess. 1. c. King William and Queen Mary, intituled An Act for ex- repealed. empting His Majesty's Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England, from the Penalties of certain Laws, as provides that that Act or any thing therein contained should not extend or be construed to extend to give any ease, benefit, or advantage to persons denying the Trinity as therein mentioned, be and the same is hereby repealed. 18. s. 17. ed. II. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of 9 & 10 W. another Act passed in the ninth and tenth years of the 3. c. 32. in reign of King William, intituled An Act for the more ef- part repealfectual suppressing Blasphemy and Profaneness, so far as the same relate to persons denying as therein mentioned, respecting the Holy Trinity, be and the same are hereby repealed. land III. And whereas it is expedient to repeal an Act, pass- Acts passed in the Parliament of Scotland in the first Parliament ed in Scotof King Charles the Second, intituled An Act against the against Crime of Blasphemy; and another Act, passed in the Par- blasphemy liament of Scotland in the first Parliament of King William, repealed. intituled An Act against Blasphemy; which Acts respectively ordain the punishment of death; Be it therefore enacted, That the said Acts and each of them shall be, and the same are and is hereby repealed. IV. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall be Public Act. deemed and taken to be a public Act, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such by all Judges, Justices and others, without being specially pleaded. |