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Conventicle Act 1664

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XIV.How Peers Houses shall be searched:

In the City of London.

[X1Provided That noe Dwelling house of any Peere of this Realme whilst he or his Wife shall be there resident shall be searched by vertue of this Act but by immediate Warrant from His Majestie under His Signe Manuall or in the presence of the Lieutenant or one of the Deputy Lieutenants or two Justices of the Peace whereof one to be of the Quorum of the same County or Riding, Nor shall any other Dwelling house of any Peere or other person whatsoever be entred into [X2by] force by vertue of this Act but in the presence of one Justice of the Peace or Cheife Magistrate respectively except within the Citty of London where it shall be lawfull for any such other Dwelling house to be entred into as aforesaid in the presence of one Justice of the Peace Alderman Deputy Alderman or any one Commissioner of the Leiutenancy for the Citty of London.]

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X1annexed to the Original Act in a feparate Schedule.

X2Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: w[i]th O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]

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