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Benefit of Clergy, etc. Act 1691

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IV.Buyers of stolen Goods, reputed Accessaries after the Fact.

And forasmuch as Thieves and Robbers are much encouraged to com[m]itt such Offences because a great number of persons make it their trade and businesse to deal in the buying of Stoln Goods Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid that if any person or persons shall buy or receive any Goods or Chattel that shall be feloniously taken or stoln from any other person knowing the same to be stoln hee or they shall be taken and deemed an Accessary or Accessaries to such Felony after the Fact and shall incur the same Punishment as an Accessary or Accessaries to the Felony after the Felony comitted

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