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    sions , which said court shall deliver the same to ihe sheriff , and make a memorial on record of the payment and delivery thereof , which said memorial shall be a sufficient and final discharge to the said justice and justices and a charge to the sheriff , which said discharge and charge shall be certified into the exchequer together , and not one without the other : and no justice shall or may bequestioned or accountable for the same in the exchequer or elsewhere , than in quarter sessions ; another third part thereof to and for the use of the poor of the parish where such offence shall be committed ; and the other third part thereof to the informer and informers , and to such person and persons as the said justice , justices or chief magistrate respectively shall appoint , having regard to their diligence and industry in the discovery , dispersing and punishing of the said conventicles .

    III . And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid , That every person who shall take upon him to preach or teach in any such meeting , assembly , or conventicle , and shall thereof be con * victed , as aforesaid , shall forfeit for every such first offence , the sum of twenty pounds , to be levied

    in manner aforesaid upon his goods and chattels ; and if the said preacher or teacher so convicted , be a stranger , and his name and habitation not known , or is fled , and cannot be found , or in the

    judgment of the justice , justices or chief magistrate before whom he shall be convicted , shall be thought' unable to pay the s ^ rae , the said justice , Justices or chief magistrate respectively , areij ^ reby

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    impowered And required to levy the same , by warrant , as aforesaid , upon the goods and'chattels of any « such persons who shall * be present at the same conventicle ; any thing in this or any other act , law , or statute to the contrary notwithstanding ; and the money

    so levied , to be disposed of in man . ner aforesaid : and if such offender so convicted , as aforesaid , shall at any time again commit the like offence or offences , contrary to this act , and be thereof convicted in manner aforesaid , then such offender so convicted of such like

    offence or offences , shall , for every such offence , incur the penalty of forty pounds , to be levied and disposed as aforesaid . . IV . And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid , That every

    person who shall wittingly and willingly suffer any such conventicle , meeting , or unlawful assembly aforesaid , to be heid in his or her house , out . house , barn , yard or backside , and be convicted thereof ,

    in manner aforesaid , shall forfeit the sum of twenty pounds , to be levied in manner aforesaid , upon his or her goods and chattels , or , in case of his or her poverty or inability , as aforesaid > upon the

    goodb and chattels of such persons who shajji be convicted , in manner aforesaid , of being present at . the same conventicle , ; awi the , money so levied , to be . disposed * of in manner aforesaid . ; .-,.. •¦? ^ * k .

    V . Provided 5 always , and be it enacted by tl > e authorityaforesaid , That no person shall , by * anytdause of this a . ^ be U ^ blcto . p ^ y above ten pounds fpr ^ anyhf on # > pi eeUng , in regard , of jth % < rpov ^ ly tof qny other person ^ pr gwMOfttttv # * M > '•? Yl f -jfavyktAtM&f ^< Wte ft

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    The Conventicle Act . 383

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1812, page 383, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1749/page/39/