Section VII Persons transported escaping or returning without Leave; Felony without Clergy:

Wife not to lose her Dower.; No Corruption of Blood.

And be it further enacted That if any person against whom Judgement of Transportation shall be given in manner aforesaid shall make escape before Transportation, or being transported as aforesaid shall returne into this Realme of England Dominion of Wales and Towne of Berwicke upon Tweede without the speciall License of His Majestie His Heires and Successors in that behalfe first had and obtained; That the party soe escapeing or returning shall be adjudged a Felon and shall suffer death as in case of Felony without benefit of Clergy, and shall forfeite and loose to His Majestie all his or her Goods and Chattells for ever, and shall further lose to His Majestie all his or her Lands Tenements and Hereditaments for and dureing the life onely of such Offender and noe longer, And that the wife of any such Offender by force of this Act shall not lose her Dower, nor shall any Corruption of blood grow or be by reason of any such Offence mentioned in this Act, But that the heire of every such Offender by force of this Act shall and may after the death of such Offender have and enjoy the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of such Offenders as if this Act had not beene made.