45° C. 12. Anno quinto 6c fexto Edwardi VI. A. D. 1552. Within what X. And it is further enacted by the Authority, aforefaid, That no Perfon or Perfons fhall in any wife be Time and be- impeached for any of the Offences abovefaid, committed only by open Preaching or Words, unlefs the bfferulermuft Offender or Offenders be thereof accufed within three Months next after the fame open Preaching and be accufed. Words, and that the fame Accufation or Accufations be had, made and declared to one of the King's Coun- cil, or to one of the King's Juftices of Affile, or elfe to one of the King's Juftices of the Peace, being of the £htorum, or to two Juftices of the Peace within the Shire where the fame Offence or Offences {hall hap- pen to be done or committed; any Thing contained in this Act to the contrary thereof in any wife not- withftanding. Concealment of XI. Provided alfo, and be it declared and enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That Concealment or High Treafon is k ee ping fecret of any High Treafon, be deemed and taken only Mifprifion of Treafon, and the Offender TreaTon" 1 ° therein to forfeit and fuffer as in Cafes of Mifprifion of Treafon, as heretofore hath been ufed; any Thing above mentioned to the contrary notwithffanding. No Perfon (hall XII. Provided always, and be it enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That no Perfon or Perfons, after he attainted of the firft Day of "June next coming, fhall be indicted, arraigned, condemned, convicted or attainted for any upon the Tefti- °f the Treafons or Offences aforefaid, or for any other Treafons that now be, or hereafter fhall be, which monyoftwo fhall hereafter be perpetrated, committed or done, unlefs the fame Offender or Offenders be thereof ac- lawful Accufers. cufed by two lawful Accufers; (2) which faid Accufers at the Time of the Arraignment of the Party ac- 1 Ed. 6. c. 12. cu fec]? if they be then living, fhall be brought in Perfon before the Party fo accufed, and avow and tnain- i& 2 'ph &M. ta ' n t ' lat tnat tney ' lave to ^ a S a ' n ^ the ^ a '^ P art y> to prove him guilty of the Treafons or Offences con- c , 0i * ' tained in the Bill of Indictment laid againft the Party arraigned; unlefs the faid Party arraigned fhall wil- Er.Coron.219. lingly without Violence confefs the fame : (3) Saving to every Perfon and tenons, their Heirs and Succef- Rexv. Raleigh, f orS5 other than the Offenders and their Heirs, and fuch Perfon and Peri claim to any their Ufes, sjac-i. apud a U fuch Rights, Titles, Intereft, Poffeffions, Leafes, Rents, Reverhons, Offices and other Profits, which The Right of th e Y or an Y °f them fhall have at the Day of committing fuch Treafons, or at any Time after, in as large others ftved. . and ample Manner as if this Act had never been had nor made. Th Wife (hall XIII. Provided alfo, and be it enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That the Wife or Wives whofe Huf- lofeher Dower band or Hufbands hereafter fhall be attainted of Treafons fpecified in this Act, or of any other Treafons vhere the Ht.f- whatfoever they be, fhall in no wife be received to afk, challenge, demand cr have Dower of any the.- band is attainted Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments of any the Perfon or Perfons to be attainted of Treafon as is afdre- ot High Trea- ^jj^ during the faid Attainder in his Force 5 any Thing before mentioned to the contrary in any wife not- i°Ed. 6. c. is. withftanding. ZW97, 340. Stamf. PI. Cor. 105. For farther Prtmfions concerning Treafon, fee I El. c. J. 5 El. c. 1 & pi. 13 El. c. 1 Sf 2. 14 El. c. 1, 2, 6f 3. ?, 3 El. c. 1. 27 EI, c. 2. 3 Jac. 1. c. 4. fa. 22. 13 Car. 2. flat. 1. c. r. jKS M. c. 13. 7 & 8 W. 3. c. 3. 9 W. 3. c. 1. 13 W. 3. c. 3 Sf 6. i Ann. flat. z. c. 17. 2 & 3 Ann. c. 20. 4 Ann. c. S. 6 Ann. c. 7. 7 Ann. c. 21. 1 Geo. 1. flat. 2. c. 33. 17 Geo. z, c. 39. 19 Geo. 2. c. 9. ani 10 Geo. 3. c. 30 & 46. 1 C A P. XII. An Aft touching the Declaration of a Statute made for the Marriage of Priefts, and for the Legitimation of their Children. The Marriage of ' f LBEIT that at the Seffion of this Parliament holden by Prorogation at Weftminfiar the fourth Day Vriefts and other ' jt. of Ncvember in the fecond Year of the Reign of the King's Majefty that now is, it was ordained and Spiritual Perfons t enacted by the Authority of trie fame Parliament, That all and every Law and Laws pofitive, Canons, lawful 3 JULie ' Conftirutions and Ordinances before that made by the Authority of Man only,, which then did prohibit
- S: 3 Ed. 6. ' and forbid Marriage to any Ecclefiaftical and Spiritual Perfon or Perfons, of what Eftate, Condition or
c 7,1, ' Degree they then were, or by what Name or Names foever they then were called, which by God's Law ' might lawfully marry, and all and every Article, Branch and Sentence concerning only the Prohibition for ' the Marriage of the Perfons aforefaid, fhould be utterly void and of none Effect : (2) And that all man-
- ' ner of Forfeitures, Pains, Penalties, Crimes or Actions, which were in the faid Laws contained, or of
- the fame did follow, concerning the Prohibition for the Marriage of the Perfons aforefaid, fhould be clearly
' and utterly void, fruftrate and of none Effect, to all Intents, Conftructions and Purpofes, as well con- 4 cerning Marriage afore that Time made by any of the Ecclefiaftical or Spiritual Perfons aforefaid,. as alfo » * fuch which thereafter fhould be duly and lawfully had, celebrated and made betwixt the Perfons which ' by the Laws of God might lawfully marry : (3 ) Yet fince the making of the foid Act, divers evil difpoled
- Perfons perverfly taking Occafion of certain Words and Sentences in. the fame Act comprifed, have and.
1 do untruly and very ilanderoufly report of Priefts Matrimony, faying that the fame Statute is but a Per-
- miffion of Priefts Matrimony, as Ufury and other unlawful Things be now permitted, for the efchewing
' of greater Inconvenience and Evils, fo that thereby the lawful Matrimony of Priefts, in the Opinion of '■' many, and the Children procreate and born in fuch lawful Matrimony rather be of a greater Number of
- the King's Subjects accounted as Baftards, than lawfully born, to the great Slander, Peril and Difherifon.
' of fuch Children : (4) Which untrue flanderous Reproach of Holy Matrimony doth not only redound to '■ the high Difhonour of Almighty God, but alio to the King's Majefty's Difhonour, and his High Court. 8 of Parliament, and the learned Clergy of this Realm, who have determined the fame to be mod lawful ' by the Law of God in their Convocation, as' well by their common Affent, as by the Subfcription of their 4 Hands: (5) And that moft of all is to be lamented, through fuch uncomiy Railings of Matrimony and ' flanderous Reproaches of the Clergy, the Word of God is not heard with Reverence, followed with Di- 1 ligence, the godly Proceedings of the King's Majefty not received with due Obedience, and thereby the-
- wealthy Men of this Realm difcouraged to nourifh and bring up their Children in Learning, fo as it is to
- be feared,, left in Place of good Learning and Knowledge flull creep in Ignorance, and for learned Men,.
4 unlearned.
