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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-pardon-act-1672/section-VIII",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-pardon-act-1672/section-VIII.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Cha2/25/5",
  "legislation_title": "General Pardon Act 1672",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-pardon-act-1672",
  "path": "section/VIII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "VIII",
  "heading": "Recognizances, &c. forfeited and not forfeited, as herein mentioned, and Specialties to the Crown, &c.",
  "text": "Provided alwayes and bee it enacted That this Act shall not extend or be construed to pardon or discharge any Recognizance or Obligation not yet forfeited, nor to pardon or discharge any forfeited Recognizance or Obligation or any other Forfeiture or Penaltie whereof the Farmers of his Majestyes Customes or, Excise or the Farmers of any other part of his Majestyes Revenue ought to receive any benefitt or advantage, nor to pardon or discharge any Debt due by Recognizance, Obligation or other Specialty to any other person or persons indebted to his Majestie, and which hath beene duely seized in aid of his Majesties Debt, nor to pardon or discharge any debt due by Recognizance, Obligation, Condemnation or otherwise whereupon any Enstalment or Seizure hath beene at any time heretofore made, upon which Enstalment or Seizure any thing is, or at any time since the said five and twentyeth day of March hath beene answered and paid to his Majestyes Use, nor to pardon or discharge any Penalties, Forfeitures or Summes of Money due or accrued to his Majestie by reason of any Act, Statute or Statutes; which Forfeitures Penaltyes and Summes of Money since the said five and twentyeth day of March be converted into the nature of debt by any Judgement, Order Decree or by the Agreement or the offender or offenders; or have beene estalled or any Seizure made for the same, and upon such Seizure or Estalment any thing answered or paid to his Majestyes Use Since the said five and twentyeth day of March in the yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty and three.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "interlined on the Roll."
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/25/5/section/VIII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:27:33.521370+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."
}