Section VII Officer offending in making out Process, or taking Money for Things pardoned;
or Sheriff taking or withholding Things pardoned; Penalty £10. and Treble Damages and Costs; Process void.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That if any Officer or Clerk of any of his Majesties Courts commonly called the Chancery Kings Bench Co[m]mon Pleas or Exchequer or any other Officer or Clerk of any X1 his Majesties Courts within this Realme att any time after the last day of Trinity Terme One thousand six hundred ninety five make out or write out any writts processe su[m]mons or other precept whereby any of the said Subjects or of the Bodies Corporate or others before rehearsed or any of them shall bee in any wise arrested attached distrained summoned or otherwise vexed inquieted or grieved in his or their Bodies Lands Tenements Goods or Chattells or any of them for or because of any manner of thing pardoned or discharged by virtue of this Act or if any Sheriff or Escheator or any their deputy or deputies or any Bayliff or other Officer whatsoever by colour of his or their Office or otherwise after the said last day of Trinity Terme One thousand six hundred ninety five doe levy receive take or withhold of or from any person or psons any thing pardoned or discharged by this Act that then every such person soe offending and thereof lawfully convicted or condemned by any sufficient testimony witnesse or proof shall yeild and pay for recompence thereof to the party soe grieved or offended thereby his or their treble damages besides all X2the costs of the Suit and shall alsoe forfeit and lose to the Kings Majesty for every such offence Tenne pounds And neverthelesse all and singuler such writts processe and precepts soe to bee made for or upon any manner of thing pardoned or discharged by this present Act of free pardon shall bee utterly void and of none effect.
Annotations
Editorial notes
- X1
Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: other O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
- X2
O. omits.