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Conventicle Act 1664
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X.Gaoler letting Prisoner at large, or permitting Persons at large to join Prisoner; Penalty £10
Provided alsoe and be it enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That if any Keeper of any Goale or House of Correction shall suffer any person committed to his custody for any offence against this Act to goe at large contrary to the Warrant of his Commitment according to this Act, or shall X1 person who is at large to joyne with any person committed to his Custody by vertue of this Act in the exercise of Religion differing from the Rites of the Church of England then every such Keeper of a Goale or House of Correction shall for every such Offence forfeit the summe of Tenn pounds to be levyed raised and disposed by such persons and in such manner as the penaltyes for the first and second Offences against this Act are to be levyed raised and disposed
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X1Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: permitt any O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
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