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Coin Act 1696
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VII.Attainder by this Act not to make Corruption of Blood, &c.
By what Evidence Offenders may be convicted.
Provided always and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That this Act or any Thing therein contained or any Attainder or Attainders of any Person or Persons for any Offence or Offences made Treason or Felony by this Act shall not in any wise extend or be judged interpreted or expounded to make any corruption of Blood to any the Heire or Heires of any such Offender or Offenders or to make the Wife of any such Offender to lose or forfeit her Dower of or in any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments or her Title Action or Interest to the same and that all and every Person or Persons that shall att any time after the said Fifteenth Day of May be accused or impeached of any the Offences made Treason or Felony by this Act shall or may be indicted arraigned tryed convicted or attainted by such like Evidence and in such Manner and Forme as now are or may by the Laws of this Realme be had or used against any Offender or Offenders for counterfeiting the Kings Money Any thing in this Act contained or any other Law or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding.
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