Benefit of Clergy, etc. Act 1691

VII. [X1 Where a Person has had his Clergy in another County, Clerk of the Crown, &c. shall certify it.

And forasmuch as such Men who have once had their Clergy and such Women as shall once have the benefitt of this Statute may happen to be indicted for an offence co[m]mitted afterwards in some other County Be it therefore enacted that the Clerk of the Crown Clerk of the Peace Clerk of the Assizes where such [X2 Woman or Man] shall be convicted shall at the request of the Prosecutor or any other in their Majesties behalf certifie a Transcript briefly and in few words conteyning the effect and tenor of every Indictment and Conviction of such Man or Woman of his having the benefitt of the Clergy or her having the benefitt of this Statute and Addition of every such person or persons and the certainty of the Felony and Conviction to the Judges and Justices in such other County where such Man or Woman shall be indicted which Certificate being produced in Court shall be a sufficient proof that such Man hath before had the benefitt of his Clergy and that such Woman hath had the benefitt of this Statute]

Editorial Information

X1 annexed to the Original Act in separate Schedules.

X2 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Man or Woman O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]