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Indemnity and Oblivion Act 1660
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XXIV.Persons, within Three Years, using any words tending to revive the Memory of the late Differences; if a Gentleman, or above, Penalty £10; if under that Degree, Penalty 40s.
And to the intent and purpose that all names and termes of distinction may [X1likewise be] putt into utter Oblivion Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any person or persons within the space of three yeares next ensueing shall presume malitiously to call or alledge of, or object against any other person or persons any name or names, or other words of reproach any way tending to revive the memory of the late Differences or the occasions thereof, That then every such person soe as aforesaid offending shall forfeit and pay unto the party grieved in case such party offending shall be of the degree of a Gentleman or above ten pounds, and if under that degree the summe of forty shillings to be recovered by the party grieved by Action of Debt to be therefore brought in any of His Majestyes Courts of Record [X2where] noe Essoigne Protection or wager of Law shall be allowed, or any more then one Imparlance soe as the same Action be commenced or prosecuted within six monthes [X3next] after the Offence committed, And if the Jury sworne to try any Issue or Issues that shall be joyned in such Action shall finde for the plaintiffe they shall likewise give to every such plaintiffe forty shillings da[m]mages over and above the penalty aforesaid.
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X1Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: be likewise O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
X2Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: wherein O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
X3interlined on the Roll.
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