Section II Recital that Insurrections have been.
Persons who have acted by Commission of Lieutenancy indemnified.; Magistrates, &c. indemnified in respect of Proceedings against Offenders, from 24th June 1660 to 20th July 1661.
And whereas since the twenty fourth of June One thousand six hundred and sixty there have beene X1Inserrections by occasion whereof diverse of His Majesties good Subjects have beene murdered and for the securing the Peace of the Nation and preventing further disorders diverse persons suspected to be Fanaticks Sectaries or Disturbers of the Peace have beene assaulted arrested detained or imprisoned and diverse Armes have been seized and Houses searched for Armes or suspected persons Bee it therefore further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every person and persons whoe have or shall have acted or done any thing in execution of any Commission or Commissions of Leiutenancy issued by the Kings Majesty that nowe is or by colour of them or any of them X2or touching or concerning the same or any of them or relating thereunto shalbe and are hereby saved harmelesse and undempnified in this behalfe and alsoe all Magistrates Justices of the Peace Officers and Ministers of Justice and all persons that have or shall have acted by or under them or by theire or any of theire Commands since the said twenty fourth day of June One thousand six hundred and sixty untill the twentieth day of July One thousand six hundred sixty and one as to any assaulting arresting detaining or imprisoning any person suspected to be Fanatick Sectary or Disturber of the Peace or seizing of Armes or searching of Houses for Armes or for suspected persons shall be and are hereby saved harmelesse and indempnified in that behalfe
Annotations
Editorial notes
- X1
Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Insurrections O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
- X2
interlined on the Roll.