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Section XLIX Exception of Sacrilege, &c.

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Provided alwayes That this Act nor any thing therein contained shall not extend to Indempnifie any person or persons whatsoever who have entred into any Messuages Lands Tenements or Hereditaments called Fabrick Lands or possest themselves of any Rent or Revenues given for the repaire of any Cathedrall or other Church, or who have Sacreligiously enriched themselves by converting the Plate X1and Utensills and Materialls of or belonging to such Churches to their owne private use and advantage for or in respect of the said Crimes onely.

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Editorial notes

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Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: or O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]