Indemnity and Oblivion Act 1660

X. Exceptions of Murder not comprized in the First Clause.; Piracy.

Buggery.; Rapes, and wilful taking away any Maid, &c.; Bigamy.; 1 Jac. I. c. II.; Witchcraft.; Accounts of certain Treasurers and Receivers.

Except and alwayes foreprized out of this Free and Generall Pardon all murders done or committed by any person or persons other then such which are pardoned and discharged in the first clause of pardon abovementioned, And alsoe excepted and alwayes foreprized out of this Generall and Free Pardon all and every offences of Piracy and Robery done upon the Seas not done in relation to the Differences and Warrs aforesaid, and every procureing or abetting of any such Offenders, and the comforting and receiving of them or any of them or any goods taken by way of such Piracy or Robery upon the Seas as aforesaid, And alsoe excepted the detestable and abominable Vice of Buggery commited with Mankind or Beast, And alsoe excepted all Rapes and carnall Ravishments of Women, And alsoe excepted all Ravishments, and wilfull taking away or marrying of any Maid Widow or Damzell against her will, or without the assent or agreement of her Parents or of such as then had her in custody, and alsoe all Offences of aiding comforting procureing or abeting of any such Ravishment willfull takeing or marrying had committed or done, And alsoe excepted all Offences made Felony by a certaine Act made and ordained intituled An Act to restraine all persons from [X1 Mariages] untill their former Wives and former Husbands be dead. And alsoe excepted all Offences of Invocations Conjurations Witchcrafts Sorceries Inchantments and Charmes and all Offences of procuring abeting or comforting of the same, and all persons now attainted or convicted of any the said excepted Offences, And alsoe excepted all and singular the accompts of all and every person and persons appointed by any of the Authorityes or pretended Authorityes aforesaid to be Treasurer Receiver Farmer or Collector (other then the Subcollectors of the severall Parishes Townes and Hamlets respectively for and concerning their Receipts before the foure and twentyeth day of June in the yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred fifty nine) who have received or collected any Subsidy Custome Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage Prize-Goods Assesment Sequestration New Impost or Excise or of any the Rents and Revenewes of any Lands or Hereditaments of or belonging to the late King Queene or Prince or King that now is, or belonging [X2 to] the late Archbishopricks Bishopricks Deanes or Deanes and Chapters Canons Prebends and other Officers belonging to any Cathedrall or Collegiate Church, or Popish Recusants convict or of persons Sequestred for their Recusancy or other Sequestred Estates received or collected by or paid unto them since the thirtyeth of January in the yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred forty two, and of all Moneyes and other dutyes growne due or contracted upon the Sale or Disposition of them or any of them.

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Marriage O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]

X2 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: unto O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]