Religion Act 1586
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1586 c. 6 |
| Year | 1586 |
* Vicesimo octavo, Lutw. 203,1117.
An Act for the more speedy and due Execution of certain Branches of the Statute made in the twenty-third Year of the Queen's Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act to retain the Queen's Majesty's Subjects in their due Obedience.(29 Eliz. 1) C A P. VI.
'F O R avoiding of all Frauds and Delaysheretofore practised, or hereafter to be put in Ure, to the Hindrance of the due and speedy Execution of the Statute made in the Session of Parliament holden by Prorogation atWestminster the sixteenth Day of January in the three and twentieth Year of the Reign of our most gracious Sovereign Lady the Queen's Majesty, intituled, An Act to retain the Queen's Majesty's Subjects in their due Obedience , (2) Be it enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament, That every Feoffment, Gift, Grant, Conveyance, Alienation, Estate, Lease, Incumbrance and Limitation of Use, of or out of any Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments whatsoever, had or made at any Time since the Beginning of the Queen's Majesty's Reign, or at any Time hereafter to be had or made, by any Person which hath not repaired or shall not repair to some Church, Chapel or usual Place of Common Prayer, but hath forborn or shall forbear the same, contrary to the Tenor of the said Statute, (3) and which is or shall be revocable at the Pleasureof such Offender, (4) or in any wise directly or indirectly meant or intended, to or for the Behoof, Relief or Maintenance, or at the Disposition of any such Offender, (5) or wherewith or whereby, or in Consideration whereof, such Offender or his Family shall be maintained, relieved or kept; (6) shall be deemed and taken to be utterly frustrate and void, as against the Queen's Majesty, for or concerning the levying and paying of such Sums of Money, as any such Persons by the Laws or Statutes of the Realm already made ought to pay or forfeit for not coming or repairing to any Church, Chapel, or usual Place of Common Prayer, or for saying, hearing, or being at any Mass; (7) and shall also be seized and had to and for her Majesty's Use and Behoof, as hereafter in this Act is mentioned; any Pretence, Colour, feigned Consideration, or expressing of any Use, to the contrary notwithstanding.
II Conviction of Recusancy shall be certified into the Exchequer.
II. And further be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That every Conviction heretofore recorded for any Offence before mentioned, not already estreated or certified into Queen's Majesty's Court of Exchequer, shall from the Justices before whom the Record of such Conviction shall be remaining, be estreated and certified into the Queen's Majesty's Court of Exchequer, before the End ofEaster Term next coming, in such convenient Certainty for the Time and other Circumstances, as the Court of Exchequer may thereupon award out Process for Seizure of the Lands and Goods of every such Offender as hath not paid their said Forfeitures, according to the Laws and Statutes in such...
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