http://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/18-19/3/enactedMoss Troopers Act 1666enBritish History Onlinebho/pubid-351/47385.xml2024-12-11 Moss Troopers Act 1666<CommentaryRef Ref="c400001"/>1666 CHAPTER 3 18 and 19 Cha 2An Act to continue a former Act for preventing of Thefte and Rapine upon the Northerne Borders of England.Recital of 14 13 & 14 C. II. C. 22.

The said Act continued.Whereas an Act was made in the fowerteenth yeare of the Raigne of Our Soveraigne Lord the King that now is entituled An Act for preventing of Theft and Rapine upon the Northerne Borders of England which Act is very neere expireing and hath beene found very necessary for the preservation of those places from that great number of lewd disorderly and lawless persons, that usually frequented there abouts Bee it therefore enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majestie by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons of this present Parliament assembled That the said Act and every Clause and Clauses therein contained and all and every the Powers and Authorities thereby given be, continue and remaine in force untill the end of Seaven yeares from the expiration or determination of the fore-mentioned Act.

Clergy taken away from Thieves in Northumberland, &c.IIor otherwise, Offenders to be transported.And bee it further enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That the Benefitt of Clergy shall be taken away from greate knowne and notorious Theives and Spoile takers in the said Countyes of Northumberland Cumberland or either of them dureing, the continuance of this present Act who shall be duely convicted for Theft done or committed within the said Countyes, or either of them, Or otherwise That it shall and may be lawfull to and for the Justices of the Assize and Coo[m]mis?ers of Oyer and Terminer or Goale delivery before whom such Offenders shall be convicted within the said Countyes or either of them to transport or cause to be transported the said Offenders and every of them into any of His Majestyes Dominions in America there to remaine and not to returne Any former, Law Statute or Usage to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.Abbreviated title derived from Chronological Table of the Statutes: Covering the Period from 1235 to the End of 1971 (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1972)interlioned on the Roll.