# Benefit of Clergy, etc. Act 1691, Section III: Persons convicted or standing mute, &c. in what case excluded from Clergy.


And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That if any person or persons hereafter be indicted of Felony for stealing of any Goods or Chattel in any County within this Realm of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed and thereof be convicted or attainted or upon his or their arraignment shall stand mute or will not directly answer to the Indictment or shall challenge peremptorily above the number of twenty persons returned to be of the Jury he or they shall be totally excluded from having the benefit of his or their Clergy if it appear upon Evidence or Examination before the Justices that the said Goods or Chattel were taken by Robbery or Burglary or in any other manner in any other County whereof if such person or persons had been convicted by a Jury of the said other County he or they are excluded by virtue of this or any other Act from haveing the benefitt of his or their Clergy

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/3/9/section/III (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/benefit-of-clergy-etc-act-1691/section-III
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