A PREPARATION FOR THE UNION OF LAWS. 1 01 

 OFFENCES OF ABJURATION AND EXILE. 



Cases of abjuration and exile, and the proceedings 

 therein. 



Where a man committeth any felony, for the 

 which at this day he may have privilege of sanctuary, 

 and taketh sanctuary, and confesseth the felony be 

 fore the coroner, he shall abjure the liberty of the 

 realm, and choose his sanctuary ; and if he commit 

 any new offence, or leave his sanctuary, he shall lose 

 the privilege thereof, and suffer as if he had not taken 

 sanctuary. 



Where a man not coming to the church, and, 

 being a popish recusant, doth persuade any of the 

 king s subjects to impugn his majesty s authority 

 in causes ecclesiastical, or shall persuade any subject 

 from coming to church, or receiving the communion, 

 or persuade any subject to come to any unlawful 

 conventicles, or shall be present at any such unlaw 

 ful conventicles, and shall not after conform himself 

 within a time, and make his submission, he shall ab 

 jure the realm, and forfeit his goods and lands 

 during life ; and if he depart not within the time pre 

 fixed, or return, he shall be in the degree of a felon. 



Where a man being a popish recusant, and not 

 having lands to the value of twenty marks per 

 annum, nor goods to the value of 40/. shall not re 

 pair to his dwelling or place where he was born, and 

 there confine himself within the compass of five 

 miles, he shall abjure the realm ; and if he return, 

 he shall be in the degree of a felon. 



