Section VI Sheriff or Gaoler refusing, &c. to discharge Prisoner;

Penalty £20. and Punishment.

And bee it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in case any Sheriffe Goaler and Keeper of Prison shall refuse and delay to bring and discharge and sett at Liberty any Prisoner or Prisoners according to the Order of the Justice or Justices of the Peace made in pursuance of this Act or of the said former recited Act Every such Goaler Sheriffe X1and Keeper of Prison shall forfeite and pay to such Prisoners X2 detained contrary to such Order the summe of Twenty pounds to be recovered by Action of Debt in any of His Majestyes Courts of Record and shall alsoe be subject to such Fine and Punishment as the said Justices of the Peace shall upon Complaint thereof to them made order and award