Oaths of Supremacy, etc., Ireland Act 1691

V. Peers, Members of Parliament, Barristers, &c. offending;

Punishment.; Penalty £500.

And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any p[er]son that now is or hereafter shall be a Peer of Ireland or Member of the House of Peers or Member of the House of Co[m]mons there or that shall become a Barrester at Law Attorney Clerk or Officer in Chancery or any other Court and all and every Deputie or Deputies in any Office whatsoever shall p[re]sume to offend contrary to this Act that then every such Peer and Member and such other p[er]son and p[er]sons so offending shall be thenceforth disabled to hold or execute any Office or Place of p[ro]fitt or Trust [X1 Civil Ecclesiasticall] or Military in any of their Majesties Realmes of Ireland or England or Dominion of Wales or Towne of Berwick upon Tweed or in any of their Majesties Islands or Foreigne Plantations to the said Realms belonging and shall be disabled from thenceforth to sitt or vote in either House of Parliament of the said Realm of Ireland or make a Proxy in the House of Peers there or to sue or use any Acc[i]on Bill Plaint or Informac[i]on in course of Law or to p[ro]secute any Suit in any Court of Equity or to be Guardian of any Child or Executor or Administrator of any p[er]son or capable of any Legacy or Deed of Guift and shall forfeit for every wilfull offence against this Act the Sum of Five hundred pounds to be recovered and received by him her or them that will sue for the same by any Acc[i]on of Debt Bill Plaint or Informac[i]on in any of their Majesties Courts of Record at Dublin wherein no Essoign p[ro]tection or Wager of Law shall lie or be allowed nor any more then one Imparlance

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X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Ecclesiasticall civil O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]