Section XV Printers, Letter Founders, &c. working for the Trade, offending.

First Offence, Punishment.; Second Offence, Punishment.; Quarter Sessions may determine Offences; and to certify Fines to the Exchequer yearly; and may award Process and Execution.

And be it ordained and enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Printer and Printers of Books Founder and Founders of Letters for Printing and all and every other person and persons working in or for the said Trades who from and after the Tenth day of June in the Yeare One thousand six hundred sixty and two shall offend against this present Act or any Article Clause or Thing herein contained and shall be thereof convicted by verdict confession or otherwise shall for the first offence be disenabled from exercising his respective Trade for the space of three yeares and for the second offence shall for ever thence after be disabled to use or exercise the Art or Mystery of Printing or of Founding Letters for Printing and shall alsoe have and receive such further punishment by Fine Imprisonment or other Corporal Punishment not extending to Life or Limb as by the Justices of the Court of Kings Bench or Justices of Oyer and Terminer or Justices of Assize in theire several Circuits or Justices of the Peace in theire several Quarter Sessions shall be thought fitt to be inflicted The which said Justices of the Peace in theire several Quarter Sessions shall have full power and authority to heare and determine all and every offence and offences that shall be committed against this Act or against any branch thereof upon indictment or information by any person or persons to be taken before them in theire Sessions of Peace respectively and shall yearely certifie into the Court of Exchequer as in other like Cases they are bound to doe the Fines by them imposed for any the offences aforesaid and shall and may alsoe by vertue hereof award process and execution for the taking or punishing such Offenders as in any other Case they lawfully may do by any the Lawes and Statutes of this Realm