Abjuration, etc. Act 1530
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1530 c. 14 |
| Year | 1530 |
(22 Hen. 8) C A P. XIV.
'THE King our Sovereign Lord considering that many of his Subjects heretofore, for their Offences and Merits, have been put to Execution of Death by the Laws of this Realm, and many other committing like Offences, for Tuition of their Lives have fled, and resorted to Churches, and other hallowed Places within this Realm, and there being, have abjured the Realm before the King's Coroners of the same; (2)divers of which Men (so abjuring) have been known to be very expert Mariners, and many other have been seen to be very able and apt Men for the Wars, and for Defence of this Realm, so that by the one mean and the other, the Strength and Power of this Realm is greatly minished; (3) and divers of the said Persons which heretofore have abjured this Realm, being by Reason of their Abjurations in outward Realms and Countries, have not only procured many Men of the same to the Exercise and Practice of Archery, and have instructed them in the Feat and Knowledge thereof, to the great Increase and Fortifications of the same outward Realms, and Countries, but also the same abjured Persons have disclosed their Knowledges of the Commoditiesand Secrets of this Realm, to no little Damage and Prejudice of the same.'
V Trial of foreign Pleas.
V. And over this, for more speedy Trials of Murders and Felonies, be it enacted by Authority aforesaid, That all Manner of foreign Pleas triable by the Country, hereafter to be pleaded by any Person or Persons arraigned upon any Indictment for any Petit Treason, Murder, or Felony, shall be forthwith tried before the same Justices afore whom such Person shall be arraigned, and by the same Jurors of the same County that shall try the Petit Treason, Murther, or Felony whereof he shall be so arraigned, without any farther Respite or Delay, in whatsoever County or Counties, Place or Places of this Realm, the Matter of the same Pleas be supposed or alledged.
VI No Person arraigned may challenge above xx.
VI. And that no Person arraigned for any Petit Treason, Murder, or Felony, be from henceforth admitted to any peremptory Challenge above the Number ofxx. (2) This Act to endure to the End of the next Parliament. Continued by 28 H. 8. c. 1. and by 32 H. 8. c. 3. made perpetual. But so much of this Statute as concerneth adjured...
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