A. D. T715. Anno primo Georgii Regis. Stat. 2. C. 55, 93 ' in Manner and at the Place; mentioned in the fatd Act : And whereas, by the late unnatural Rebellion, i the Gourfe of Tuftiee in Scotland btt been fo interrupted, as rendad it impoflible to give up and'tranfmit
- Presentments in fuch due Time, as Profccutions might thereupon commence before the Circuits to
' holden in May one thoufand feven hundred and fixteen, whereby, and by the Abfcnce of feveral Sh>
- and other Officers appointed by Law for executing the Portous Rolls, who joined in the faid Rebellion,
' there appeared a Ncceflity of fuperfeding the faid Circuit ;' He it therefore enacted by the Authority I-"r<J J aforcfaid, That the Lords JuAice Clerk, and Commiffioners of Judiciary, and all and every other Pei ilF - ■ and Pcrfons therein concerned, are hereby exonerated and indemnified for their not performing the faid' pufominethc' Circuit, as by the forfeited A£t they were obliged to do; any Thing in the fame Act, or in any pthej m 3Ji Law orStatute to the contrary notwithstanding. _ _ 17:6. ' XVI. And whereas the Want of Schools in proper Places, for the Education of Youth within the
- Bounds aforefaid, is alio a great Caufe of the Ignorance and Rudenefs of the meaner Sort of Peopl
- thole Parts :' Be it therefore further enacted by the Authority aforcfaid, That fuch Perfons as his Majefty Account to he
fhall appoint under his royal Sign Manual, fhall, and they are hereby required and impowered, on or);i<! before hia before the firft Day of December in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and fixteen, to lay M -j-^y. of pro- before his Majefty an Account of the proper Places for eftablifhing Shools, and of the neceffary Salaries for s^'f^" fot the Maintenance of them, that all needful Provilion may be made for that End. s c te °° " Ge0 2 ^ 39. 21 Geo.z. c. 34. 26 Go, 2. c. zg, C A P. LV. An Act to oblige Papifts to regifter their Names and real Eftates,' I. TT7HEREAS the Papifts within this Kingdom, notwithstanding the tender Regard that hath 3 CVr, 7. e t, W been fhewn them for many Years laft paft, by omitting to put in Execution the many penal 1° Car; 2.. flat, x: Laws which (on occafion of the many juft Provocations they have given, and horrid Deftgns they J, ^ have framed, for the Deftruction of this Kingdom and the Extirpation of the Proteftant Religion) have i-,' & 26. ^ r been made againft them ; and notwithftanding they have enjoyed, and do ftill enjoy the Protection and 11 & 12. W. 3. Benefit of the Government, as well as the reft of his Majefty's Subjects, have not only, all or the c - 4- greateft Part of them, been concerned in ftirring up and fupporting the late unnatural Rebellion, for the 12 jimu fl iit > «■ dethroning and murdering his moftfacred Majefty; for deftroying our prefent happy Eftablifhment; for^' J *' fettling a Popifh Pretender upon the Throne of this Kingdom; for the Deftru£lion of the Proteftant Rehgion, and the cruel murdering and maflacring its Profeifors ; by which they have brought a vaft Ex- pence upon this Nation : And whereas it manifeftly appears by their Behaviour, that they take themfelves to be obliged, by the Principles they profefs, to be Enemies to his Majefty and to the prefent happy Eftablifhment, and watch for all Opportunities of fomenting and ftirring up new Rebellions and Diftur- bances within the Kingdom, and of inviting Foreigners to invade it : And for as much as it is highly reafonable that they fhould contribute a large Share to all fuch extraordinary Expences as are or fhall be brought upon this Kingdom by their Treachery and Inftigation : And to the end that, by paying largely to the late great Expences by them brought upon this Nation, they may be deterred, if poffible, from the like Offences for the .future : And that this Nation may have the Benefit of his Majefty's gracious-- Condefcenfion, in giving his Intereft in the two third Parts of all the Papifts Eftates, which are already forfeited to him by Law, for the Ufe of the Publick, either by feizing the faid two third Parts of their Eftates for the publick Service, or by. laying fome Tax or Charge upon their Eftates hi lieu thereof, in fuch Proportion and in fuch Manner as ihall be determined to be reafonable in Parliament :' And to the- end that their Eftates may be certainly known and difcovered, for the Purpofes aforefaid,. or for fuch other Ends as a Parliament fhall think fit, Be it enacted bv the King's moft Excellent. Majefty, by and with the Offences agahfi' Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in. this prefent Parliament " i " -da are ex- affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That all and every Perfon and Perfons, not having taken ^"t'waiPa ■'{? Oaths herein after-mentoned before the laft Day of Trinity i erm one thoufand feven hundred and fixteen, i| G r3 , ,*'<:. ca. in the Manner by Law required, having any Eftate or Intereft in any Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments^^. 57. or who ihall hereafter have any Eftate or Intereft in any Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments lying, beingp sp ; Ss in E or arifing in that Part of Great Britain called England, or in Wales, or the Town of Berwick upon Tweedyhni, &c. of the who is or fhall be a Popifh Recufant or Papift, or is or fhall be educated in the Popifh Religion^ or whole Age °f2i Years Parent or Parents fhall be a Papift or Papifts, or who fhall ufe or profefs the Popifh Religion, fhall, if he 5; on J une 2 4, fhe or they be, on the twenty-fourth of June one thoufand feven hundred and fixteen, of the Age of one 1 ' n 7 „,j, not ^ zv " and twenty Years, on or before the twentieth Day of 'January in the Year of. our Lord one thoufand o°ths ftaiibc-- feven hundred and fixteen, and if he, fhe or they be, on the faid twenty-fourth of June, unborn or under fore Jan. 20, that Age, within the Space of fix Months next after he, fhe or they fhall reflectively attain to that Age,?7 l6 > and have fuch Eftate or Intereft as aforefaid, take the feveral Oaths appointed to be taken by fuch Per- take the Oaths fons who bear any Office under his Majefty, by an Act made in this prefent Seffion of Parliament, a PPomted by intituled, An Aft for the further Security of his Majefly s Perfon and Government, and the Succejfion of tbe G *°' *' , flat ' Crown in the Heirs of the late Princefs Sophia, being Prottflants, and for extinguijlnng the Hopes of the pretended" Prince of W ales, and his open and fecret Abettors, and alfo repeat and fubferibe the Declaration fet down and repeat ana and expreffed in anAct of Parliament made in the thirtieth Year of the Reign of the late King Charles lubk ". bel heDii« the Second, intituled, An Ac! for the more effectual preferving the King's Perfon and Government, by difabling c]a 'p'° n ln gapifls from fitting in. either Houfe of Parliament, in the High Court of Chancery, Court. of King's Bench, ft° t> Z'V. 1, Court
