{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/benefit-of-clergy-etc-act-1691/section-II",
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  "legislation": "aep/WillandMar/3/9",
  "legislation_title": "Benefit of Clergy, etc. Act 1691",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/benefit-of-clergy-etc-act-1691",
  "path": "section/II",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "II",
  "heading": "Persons excluded from Clergy standing mute, &c. not admitted to Clergy.",
  "text": "And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That if any person or persons whatsoever be indicted of any Offence for which by virtue of any former Statute he or they are excluded from having the benefitt of his or their Clergy if he or they had been thereof convicted by Verdict or Confession if he or they stand mute or will not answer directly to the Felony or shall challenge peremptorily above the number of Twenty persons returned to be of the Jury or shall be outlawed thereupon shall not be admitted to the benefitt of his or their Clergy",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "interlined on the Roll."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/3/9/section/II",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:25:40.387815+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}