AN ACT FOR THE KING'S MAJESTIES MOST GRACIOUS, GENERAL, AND FREE PARDON.  
DUBLIN, Printed by the Society of Stationers.  
M.DC.XXXV.   

Caroli Regis. AN ACT FOR THE KING'S MAJESTIES MOST GRACIOUS, GENERAL, AND FREE PARDON.  
THE King's Majesty, most graciously considering the goodwill, and faithful hearts of his most loving and obedient Subjects, which as at all times, so at this present especially, they having with most dutiful affection, showed towards his Highness, and understanding, that the same his loving Subjects, have many and sundry ways, by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm, falue into the danger of diverse great penalties & forfeitures, is of his Princely and merciful disposition, most graciously inclined, to extend unto them, his liberal and free Pardon, trusting they willbe the rather moved & induced henceforth, more carefully to observe his Highness' Laws & Statutes, and to continue in their legal & due obedience to his Majesty. And therefore his Majesty is well pleased and contented, that it be enacted by the authority of this present Parliament, and be it enacted by the authority of the same, in manner and form following, (that is to say) That all and every the said Subjects, aswell Spiritual, as Temporal, of this his Highness' Realm of Ireland, the Heirs, Successors, Executors, & Administrators of them, & every of them, & all and singular bodies, in any manner of wise corporated, Litties, Burroughs, Shires, Hundreds, Baronies, Towns, Villages, Hamlets, and tithings, and every of them, and the Successor and Successors of every of them, shall be by the authority of this present Parliament, acquitted, pardoned, released, & discharged, against the King's Majesty, his Heirs, and Successors, and every of them, of all manner of Treasons, Felonies, Offences, Contempts, Trespasses, Entries, Wrongs, Deceits, Misdemeanours, Forfeitures, penalties, and sums of money pains of death, pains corporal and pecuniary, and generally, of all other things, causes, quarrels, suits, judgements, and executions, in this present Act, hereafter not excepted, nor foreprised, which may be, or can be, by his Highness in any wise, or by any means pardoned; before, and unto the three and twentieth day of May last past, to every, or any of his said Subjects, Bodies corporate, Cities, Burroughs, Shires, Hundreds, Baronies, Towns, Villages, and tithings, or any of them.  
And also the King's Majesty is contented, that it be enacted by authority of this present Parliament, and be it enacted by the authority of the same, that this his said free Pardon, shall be as good & effectual in the Law, to every of his said Subjects, bodies Corporate, and others before rehearsed, in, for, and against all things, which be not hereafter in this present Act, excepted & foreprised, as the same pardon should have been, if all offences, contempts, forfeitures, causes, matters, suits, quarrels, judgements, executions, penalties, and all other things, not hereafter in this present Act, excepted and foreprised, had been particularly, singularly, especially, and plainly, named, rehearsed, and specified, & also pardoned by proper and express words, and names, in their kinds, natures, and qualities, by words and terms thereunto requisite to have been, put in, and expressed, in this present Act of free pardon: And that his said Subjects, nor any of them, nor the Heirs, Executors or Administrators of any of them, nor the said bodies corporate, and others, before named and rehearsed, nor any of them be, nor shall be sued, vexed, or inquieted in their Bodies, Goods, Chattles, Lands, or Tenements, for any manner of matter, cause, contempt, misdemeanour, forfeiture, trespass, offence, or any other thing, suffered, done, or committed, before the said three and twentieth day of May last past, against his Highness, his Crown, Dignity, prerogative, Laws, or Statutes, but only for such matters, causes, and offences, as be rehearsed, mentioned, or in some wise touched in the exceptions of this present Act, to be foreprised and excepted, and for none other; any Statute or Statutes. Laws, Customs, or Usages, heeetofore had, made, or used to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
And the King's Highness, of his bounteous liberality, by the authority of this present Parliament, granteth, and freely giveth to every of his Subjects, and to every of the said bodies corporate, & other before rehearsed, and every of them, all Goods, Chattels, debts, fines, issues, profits, amerciaments, forfeitures, and sums of money, by any of them forfeited, which to his Highness do, or should belong, or appertain, by reason of any offence, contempt, trespass, entry, misdemeanour, matter, cause, or quarrel, suffered, done, or committed, by them, or any of them, before the said three & twentieth day of May last past, which be not hereafter in this present Act, fore prised and excepted.  
And be it enacted nevertheless, that all grants thereof, or of any part thereof, made by any such, as have so forfeited the same, and are hereby restored, as aforesaid, and all Executions thereof, or of any part thereof, had against any such, after such forfeiture thereof, committed or made, shall be of such force, and effect, as if no such forfeiture thereof had been had, or made, and of no other, The same forfeiture, or any thing before in this Act to the contrary, notwithstanding. And that all & every the Kings said Subjects, and all and singular bodies corporate, & others before rehearsed, may by him, or themselves, or by his, or their Deputy, or Deputies, or by his, or their Attorney, or Attourneyes, according to the Laws of this Realm, plead, and minister this present Act of free pardon, for his, or their discharge, of, & for any thing, that is by virtue of this present Act pardoned, discharged, given, or granted, without any Fee, or other thing paying, to any person or persons, for writing, or entry of the judgements, or other cause, concerning such plea, writing, or entry, but only sixteen pence, to be paid to the Officer, or Clerk, that shall enter such plea, matter, or judgement, for the parties discharge in that behalf: any Law, Statute, Usage, or Custom to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
And furthermore, the King's Majesty is contented & pleased, That it be enacted by the authority of this present Parliament, that this his said free pardon, by the general words, clauses, and sentences before rehearsed, shall be reputed, deemed, adjudged, expounded, allowed, & taken, in all manner of Courts, of his Highness, and elsewhere, most beneficial, and available, to all and singular the said Subjects, bodies corporate, and others before rehearsed, & to every of them, in all things not in this present Act, excepted, or foreprised, without any ambiguity, question, or other delay, whatsoever it shall be, to be made, pleaded, objected, or alleged, by the King our Sovereign Lord, his Heirs, or Successors, or by his, or any of their general Attorney, or Atourneyes, or by any person or persons, for his Highness, or any of his Heirs, or Successors.  
And furthermore, it is enacted by the King our Sovereign Lord, and by the authority of this present Parliament, That if any Officer, or Clerk, of any his Highness' Courts, commonly called the chantry, King's Bench, and Gommon-pleas, or of his Exchequer, or any other Officer, or Clerks, of any other of his Highness' Courts, within this Realm, at any time after the last day of this present Session of Parliament, make out, or write out any manner of Writs, process, summons, or other precepts, whereby any of the said Subjects, or any of the said bodies corporated, or others before rehearsed, or any of them, shall be in any wise arrested, attached, distreyned, summoned, or otherwise vexed, inquieted, or grieved, in his, or their bodies, Lands, Tenements, Goods or Chattles, or in any of them, for, or because of any manner of thing pardoned, or discharged, by virtue of this Act of free pardon: or if any Sheriff, or Escheator, or any of their Deputy, or Deputies, or any Bailiff or other Officer whatsoever, by colour of his, or their Office, or otherwise after the said last day of this present Session of Parliament, do levy, receive, take, or withhold, of, or from any person or persons, any thing pardoned, or discharged by this Act, that then every such person so offending, and thereof lawfully convicted or condemned, by any sufficient Testimony, witness, or proof, shall yield, and pay for recompense thereof to the party so grieved or offended thereby, his, or their triple damages, besides all costs of the Suit, & shall also forfeit & lose to the King's Majesty, for every such default, Ten pounds: And nevertheless all and singular such Writs, process, and precepts so to be made, for, or upon any manner of thing pardoned, or discharged by this present Act of free pardon, shall be utterly void, and of none effect.  
Excepted and always foreprised, out of this general and free pardon, all, and all manner of high Treasons, & other offences, committed, or done by any person or persons, against the King or Queen's most Royal persons, or either of them, or the person of the Prince his Highness, and all conspiracies and confederacies, traitorously had, committed, or done by any person or persons, against the King, or Queen's Majesties Royal persons, or either of them, or the person of the Prince his Highness; and all, and all manner of levying of Marre, and all Rebellions, and Insurrections whatsoever: And also excepted all & every manner of Treasons, committed or done, by any person or persons, in the parts beyond the Seas, or in any other place out of the King's Dominions: And also all suits, punishments, executions, pains of death, forfeitures and penalties, for, or by reason, or occasion of any the Treasons and offences before excepted.  
And also excepted out of this pardon, all offences of forging, & false counterfeiting the King's Majesty's Great, or privy Seal, sign Manuel, or privy Signet, or of any the Monies currant within this Realm: And also all offences of unlawful diminishing of any the said Monies, by any way or means whatsoever, contrary to the Laws & Statutes of this Realm: And also excepted out of this general pardon, all other Treasons whatsoever, of what nature, kind, or quality soever: And also all misprisions and concealments of high Treason; And all abetting, aiding, comforting, or procuring of the same offences, or any of the said Treasons.  
And also excepted out of this pardon, all manner of voluntary Murders, petit Treasons, and wilful poisoning, done, or committed, by any person or persons, and all and every the accessaries to the same offences, or any of them, before the said offences committed.  
And also excepted and foreprised out of this general Pardon, all and every offences of Piracy, and Robbery, done upon the Seas, and all & every procuring or abetting of any such offenders, and the comforting & receiving of them, or any of them, or of any goods taken away by way of piracy, or robbery, upon the Seas, as aforesaid, or of any goods, forfeited, or due unto his Majesty, by reason of any piracy, or robbery upon the Seas.  
And also excepted out of this pardon, all Burglaryes, committed, or done, in any dwellinghouse, or houses, and all accessaries to any the said Burglaryes, before the same Burglary committed.  
And also excepted all robberies, done upon, or to any man's or woman's person in the highway, or else where: And all and singular accessaries, of, or to any such Robberies, before the said Robbery committed: And also excepted the felonious stealing of any Horse, Gelding; Garran, or Mare, and all accessaries thereunto, before the same felony committed, and all judgements and Executions, of, and for the same: And also excepted all wilful burnings of any dwelling house, or houses, or of any Barn or Barns, wherein any Lorne was.  
And also excepted the detestable and abominable vice of Buggery, committed with Mankind, or Beasts. And also excepted all Rapes, and carnal Ravishments of Women.  
And also excepted all ravishments, and wilful taking away or marrying of any Maid, Widow, or Damsel, against her will, or without the assent or agreement of her parents, or of such as then had her in custody: And also all offences of aiding, comforting, procuring, or abetting of any such ravishment, wilful taking, or marrying, had, committed, or done.  
And also excepted all wilful Escapes of any Traitors.  
And also excepted out of this pardon, all persons, now attainted, or outlawed, of, or for any Treason, petit Treason; Murder, wilful poisoning, Burglary, or Robbery, and all Executions, of and for the same.  
And also excepted, all offences of Invocations, Conjurations, Witchcrafts, Sorceries, Enchantments, & Charms; and all offences of procuring, abetting, or comforting of the same, and all persons now attained, or convicted of any of the said offences.  
And also excepted all and every person & persons, which being outlawed of, or for any felony, or felonies, and their outlawries; standing in force since the said outlawries have eftsoons comwitted any other felony.  
And also excepted all and every manner of taking from the King's Majesty of any Goods or Chàttles, or the Issues, Rents, Revenues, or Drosits, of any Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, which were of any Traitor, Murderer, Felon; Clerk, or Clerks, attainted, or convicted, or Fugitives, or any of them.  
And also excepted, all Goods and Chattles, in any wise forfeited to the King's Majesty, by reason of any Treason, petit Treason, Murder, or Felony heretofore committed, or done.  
And also excepted, all offences, of, or in making, Writing, Printing, or publishing, or in consenting unto the making, writing, printing, or publishing, of any false, seditions, or scandalous Book or Books, Libel or Libels, in any wise against the King's Majesty, or the present government of this Realm, in causes either Ecclesiastical, or Temporal, or against any person or persons whatsoever.  
And also excepted out of this Pardon, all intrussons, had, made, or done, by any person or persons, in, or upon any the Manors, Lands, Tenements, or other Hereditaments of the King's Majesty, and all wastes, done, committed, or suffered, upon any such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments; and the wrongful taking of any the rents, issues, and profits of the same Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, of the King's Highness: And also all Suits, Accounts & Impetitions, of and for the same.  
And also excepted out of this Pardon all Alienations, made of and Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, with out licence, and all fines, issues, & prosits, that may, or aught to grow, or come to the King's Majesty, by reason of any such Alienation, without licence.  
And also excepted out of this Pardon, all wastes committed, or done, in any of the King's Wards-Lands, or in the Wards-lands of any of the King's Committees: And also all and every Fine & Fines, for the single & double value of the Marriage, or Marriages, of all & every Ward or Wards, at any time heretofore grown to the King's Majesty, sithenee the beginning of his Majesty's Reign.  
And also excepted, all Wards, and the Lands of such Wards, as have grown to the King's Majesty, sithence the beginning of his Majesty's Reign: and all Liveryes, Primer Seisins, & Ouster-lemains, that aught to be had, done, or sued, for, or in respect of any the Ward or Wards-Lands, before excepted.  
And also excepted out of this general Pardon, all ravishments & wrongful taking, & withholding of any of the King's Wards, or Wards-Lands before excepted, or the rents and profits of the same, & all misdemeanours & offences concerning the same. And every thing that by reason of any Ward, or Wards-Lands before excepted, or for default of suing, or prosecuting of any Livery of the same, aught to come, or be to the King's Majesty, & which as yet is not discharged.  
And also excepted all Fines that should, or aught to grow to the King's Majesty that now is, of any of his Widows, that have married without Licence, since the beginning of his Majesty's Reign.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority of this present Parliament, That the King's Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, shall have and enjoy, the full & whole Interest, Beneat, Profit, and advantage of all Wardships before excepted, and of all Liveryes, Primer Seisins, and Duster lemaines, of all Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, whatsoever, and all means issues, rates, & profits, for not prosecuting, or not sueing of any Livery, or Ouster-lemaine, happening, growing, or accrueing sithence the beginning of his Majesty's Reign; as if this Act had never been had or made.  
Provided also, and be it enacted, That all and every person & persons, which have tendered, or aught to sue, his, her, or their, or any of their Liveryes, or Ouster-lemaines, of, or for any Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, whatsoever they be, shall sue his, her, or their Livery, & Liveryes, and Ouster lemaines; out of our said Sovereign Lord the King's hands, and shall answer & pay their fines, issues, & mean profits, for his, or their Manors, Lands, Tenements, & Hereditaments, which have grown and accrued since the beginning of his Majesty's Reign, in like manner and form, to every respect, as they, & every of them, should, or aught to have done, if this Act had never been had, nor made; notwithstanding the not finding of any Office, or Offices, or any other matter whatsoever; any article, thing, or things, to this present Act of general Pardon, comprised, and specified to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
And also excepted and foreprised out of this Pardon, all such persons, as the last day of this present Session of Parliament, be in prison within the Castle of Dublin, or in the prison of the Marshalsey of the four Courts, or otherwise restrained of liberty, by express commandment, or directions of the Lord Deputy, or of any his Matesties' Privy Louncell.  
And also excepted out of this Pardon, all and every such person & persons, which at any time since the beginning of the Reign of our late most gracious Sovereign Lord King james of blessed memory, have fled out of this Realm of Ireland, or any other his Majesty's Dominions, for any offence of high Treason, petit Treason, or misprision of Treason.  
And also excepted all such persons as be gone or fled out of this Realm, for any cause, contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm, without the Licence of the King's Majesty, or of the Lord Deputy, or other thief Governor, or Governors of this Realm.  
And also excepted all such persons, as have obtained & had Licence to departed this Realm for a certain time, and now do abide out of the Realm, without any lawful excuse, after the time of their Licence expired.  
And also excepted out of this Pardon, all and every concealments, and wrongful detaynments, of any Custom, Subsidy, Poundage, or Impost, due to the King's Majesty that now is, & all corruptions and misdemeanours of any Officer, or Minister of, or concerning any Custom, Subsidy, Poundage, or Impost, and all accounts, impetitions, and suits to be had, made, or done for the same.  
And also excepted all and singular accounts, of all and every Collector and Collectors of any Subsidy, Poundage, Custom, Imposition, Composition, or other thing; & all accounts of every other person whatsoever, that aught to be accountant to the King's Highness, and the Heirs, Executors, and Administrators, of every such person, that aught to account for all things touching only the same accounts: And all and singular Arrearages of accoinpts, & vutrue accounts, and all impetitions, Charges, Seizures, Suits, Demands, and Executions, which may, or can be had, of, or for any such account or accounts, or any Arrearages of the same.  
And also excepted all titles and actions of Quare impedit.  
And also excepted all homages. And also excepted all relief, and reliefs, heriots, rents-seruices, reuts-charges, rents-serkes, & the arrearages of the same, not done or paid to the King's Highness.  
And also excepted all conditions, and covenants, and penalties, titles and forfeitures of condition, or conditions, covenant, or covenants, acctued, or geowne to the King's Marestie, by reason of the breach, & not performing of any covenant, or condition whatsoever.  
And also excepted all sums of Money, granted to the King's Majesty that now is, or any of his noble Progevitors, by way or name of Subsidy, contribution, composition, or otherwise, and all concealments, frauds and offentes, by which his Majesty hath been deceived, and not truly answered, of, or for the same.  
And also excepted out of this Pardon, all debts, which were, or be due to our Sovereign Lord the King, or our late most gracious Sovereign Lord King james of famous memory, (his Majesty's Royal Father,) or to any person or persons, for, or to any of their uses, by any condemnation, terognizance, obligation, or otherwise, (other theu such debts as are due, upon any obligation, or recognizauce, forfeited before the said three & twentieth day of May last past, for not keeping the peace; or not being of good behaviour) which debts geowne, or accrued upon these causes, viz. for not keeping of the peace, of not being of the good behaviour, by this free Pardon, be, & shall be, clearly pardoned and discharged.  
And also excepted & foreprised out of this Pardan, all and singular penalties, forfeitures, and sums of money, being due, or accrued to our Sovereign Lord the King, by reason of any Act, Statute, or statutes, which forfeitures, panalties, & sums of money, be converted into the nature of debts, by any judgement, order, or decree, or by the agreement of the offend or, or offenders, fithence the beginning of the reign of our late gracious. Sovereign King james of famous meinory.  
And also excepted all forfeitures of all Leases, Estates, or juterests, of any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, holden of out Soveratgue Lord the King's Majesty, by knight's service, or in sorage, in Capite, or otherwise by knight's service, made in one, or several assurances, or leases, for any term, or terms of years, whereupon the old and accustomed rent, or more, is not reserved.  
And also excepted all first fruits, and twentieth parts, grown due, since the beginning of his Majesty's Reign, and at this present being due to be paid to his Majesty, by force of any Act, or Statute, or otherwise.  
And also excepted, all penalties and forfeitures, whereof there is any verdier, since the beginning of his Majesty's Reign, in any suit given, or passed for the King's Majesty.  
And also excepted all forfeitures, and other penalties and profits, now due, accrued, and grown, or which shall, or may be due, accrow, or grow to the King's Majesty, by reason of any offence, misdemeanour, or contempt, or other Act, or Deed, had, suffered, committed, or done, contrary to any Act, Statute, or Statutes, or contrary to the common Laws of this Realine, and whereof, or for the which, any action, bill, plaint, or information, at any time within eight years, next before the last day of this present session of Parliament, hath been, or shall be exhibited, commenced, or sued in the Courts of Castie-Thamber, or Exchequer-Chamber, or in any the King's Majesty's Courts at Dublin, & now is, or the said last day of this Session of Parliament, shall be there depending & remaining, to be prosecuted, or whereof the King's Majesty by his Letters Patents, under his great Seal of England, or Ireland, or by any Letter, or Warrant, under his Highness' privy signet of England, hath heretofore made, or directed to be made, any gift. or assignment to any person or persons whatsoever.  
And also excepted out of this general & free pardon, all offences, contempts, disorders, covins, frauds, deceits, & misdemeanours whatssoever heretofore committed, or done, by any person or persons, & whereof, or for the which any suit, by bill, plaint, or information, at any time within four years, next before the last day of this present Session of Parliament, is, or shall be commenced, or exhibited in the Tourt of Castle-Chamber at Dublin, & shall be there, the same last day of this Session of Parliament depending, or whereupon any sentence, or decree, is given or entered.  
And also excepted out of this Pardon, all offences of perjuries, & the subornation of witnesses, & offences of forging, & counterfeiting of any false deeds, escripts or writings, or of any examinations, or testimonies of any witness, or witnesses, tending to bring an person or persons, into danger of his life, and the giving of the same in evidence, & the counselling, or procuring of any such counterfeiting or forgeing, to be had, or made. And all false & malicious conspiracies, to bring any person or persons, into danger of his life.  
And also excepted out of this Pardon, all & every offence or offences, touching, or concerning the carrying, sending, or conveying over the Seas, out of this Realm, of any gold, silver, jewels, or any coin of gold, or silver, coutrary to the laws, or Statutes of this Realm, unless it were by the licence of the King's Majesty, or of the Lord deputy, or other chief Governor, or Governors of this Realm.  
And also excepted out of this Pardon, all offences of Heresse, Schism, Incest, Adultery, Fornication, & Simony, & all Usury, where any interest hath been received, or taken, above the rate & proportion of ten pounds, for the loan or forbearance of one hundred pounds for one year; and so ratably, for a greater, or lesser sum, or for a longer, or shorter time: & all misdemeanours, & disturbances, committed, or made, in any Church, or Chapel, in the time of Common-prayer; preaching, or divine service there used, to the disturbance thereof, & all outlawries, & prosecutions upon the same.  
And also excepted all offences of drawing of Weapons, unlawful striking, or giving of blows, & all other force & violence, committed, or done, in any Termtime, in the view of any the Kings Courts judicially sitting, at, or in the king's Courts at Dublin, or defore the judges of Assize, in their several Circuits, for the which, any person or persons, now stand indicted, convicted, or attainted, in any of his Majesty's said Courts.  
And also excepted all offences, whereby any person may be charged with the penalty & danger of Praemunire, & of the which offence or offences, any person standeth already indicted, or otherwise lawfully condemned, or convicted.  
And also excepted all dilapidations, for which any Suit is, or before the end of this Session of Parliament, shall be depending.  
And also excepted all offences whatsoever in Shipping, or willingly assenting, or causing to be shipped to be transported into any the parts beyond the Seas, out of the obedience of his majesty, any Guns, Ordinance, Shot, or Gun-mettall, contrary to the Laws & Statutes of this Realm, without Licence of his majesty, or of the Lord deputy, or other chief Governor or Governors of this Realm, in that behalf first had & obtained. And also all such as covenously, or by consent, or for the relief of any such as have offended, in, or against any popular, or penal Statute, have for the same offence, or offences, exhibited any action, bill, plaint, information, or suit, against any such offendor or offenders.  
And also excepted all offences, in taking away, imbezelling, or purloining, any the king's Majesty's Goods, Money, Chattles, jewels, Armour, Munition, Ordinance, or Habiliments of war.  
And also excepted out of this pardon, all manner of Extortions & Briberies whatsoever: And also excepted all covins, frauds, deceits, & other diforders, & misdemeanours whatsoever, heretofore committed, or done, by any Steward of his Majesty's Manors or Courts, Sheriff, or Under sheriff, or by any officer, or minister, in any of his Highness' Courts, or any ways trusted, or employed, in, or about his Majesty's Lands, or Revenue, in, or by reason or colour of any of their offices, or places, or any their Deputies, or Clerks; & all offences of aiding, comforting, assisting, or procuring of any Sheriff, Under-sheriff, or any such Officer, Minister, or Clerk, in contriving, doing, or executing any such extortion, exaction, covin, fraud deceit, disorder, or misdemcanor.  
And also excepted out of this Pardon, all Issues, Fines, & Amerciaments, lost, imposed, assessed, offered, or taxed, since the beginning of his Majesty's Reign.  
And also excepted all Issues, Fines, & Amerciaments, returned, afferred, taxed, set, or entered, severally, or particularly, in any Court of Record at Dublin. And yet nevertheless, his Majesty of his abundant grace & favour, towards all his loving Subjects, taking into his gracious & Princely consideration that many of his said Subjects, have been & yet are, continually to their exceeding great charges & expenses, troubled & molested for sundry & diverse Issues, Fines, Amerciaments, forfeited Recognizances, & other forfeitures due to his Majesty, which be continually written for in schedula Pipe, in his Maiesttes' Court of Exchequer, is graciously pleased, that it be enacted, & be it enacted by the authority aforesaid; That all such Issues, Fines, Americiaments, forfeited Recognizances, & other forfeitures, as before the said 23. day of May last passed have been drawn down in schedula Pipe, & not already received, nor totted upon the account of any Sheriff; nor granted, nor affigned, nor to be granted, or assigned, as aforesaid, shall by this free, gracious, & general pardon, be treely, & clearly, to all intents and purposes, exonerated, pardoned, and discharged, & that from henceforth, no further process shall issue for levying or collecting the same.  
And yet nevertheless, all Estreats of such Fines, Issues, and Americaments, as be now pardoned by this Act. & which be already estreated forth of the Court of Exchequer, & be remaining in the hands of the Sheriff, Undersheriff, or Bailiff, for collecting of the same Fines, Issues, & Imerciaments; shall upon the return of the same Estracts, be orderly charged, and delivered by Scrowes into the Office of the Pipe, in the Court of Exchequer, as heretofore hath been accustomed; to the intent, that thereupon order may be taken, that his Majesty may be truly answered, of all such Fines, Issues, and Amerciaments, not by this Act pardoned, and which any Sheriff, Undersheriff, Bailiff, or other Officer, or Minister hath received, or aught to answer by force or colour, of any such Estreat, Process, or precept, to him, or them made, for the levying thereof: and yet that not withstanding, all & every Sheriff and Sheriffs, and other accountant, upon his or their Petition or petitions, to be made, for the allowance of any such Fines, Issues, & amerciaments, as by this Act is pardoned, shall have all and every such his, and their petition allowed, in his and their account and accounts, without paying any Fee, or Reward to any Officer, Clerk, or other Minister, for the making, entering, or allowing of any such petition or petitions; any usage or custom to the contrary thereof, notwithstanding.  
And also excepted out of this Pardon, all such persons as be, and remain still attainted, or condemned, and not already pardoned, of, or for any Rebellion, or levying of Marre, or of, or for any conspiracy of any Rebellion, or levying of Marre, within this Realm, or in any other the king's Dominions.  
And also excepted all false forging and counterfeiting of any Commission, or Commissions, to inquire of any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments. And also all false forging and counterfeiting, of any untrue Certificate, or return of any Commission or Commissions, obtained, or gotten forth of any Court or Courts, or by warrant from the Lord deputy, or other chief Governor or Governors of this Realm; to inquire of any Lands, Tenements, or other things whatsoever. And all manner falsifying of any particular, or of any Bill or Bills, Fyant or Fyants, signed by his Majesty, or by his Deputy, or other chief Governor or Gonernours, Commissioner or Commissioners, in that behalf authorized, after the engrossing thereof, and before the passing the same unto the Great Seal.  
And also excepted out of this pardon, all goods, chattles, debts, actions, and suits, already forfeited, or whereof any right, or tittle is accrued, and grown to the king's Majesty, by reason of any Out lawrie, whereof the king's Majesty, by his Highness' Letters Patents, or otherwise, hath before the last day of this present session of Parliament, made any grant, covenant, or promise, to any person or persons whatsoever.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that it shall and may be lawful, to, and for all and every Clerk, and other Officers of the king's Courts, to award and make Writs of Capias ut lagatum, at the suit of the party plaintiff, against such persons outlawed, as be pardoned by this Act, to the intent to compel the defendant and defendants, to make answer to the plaintiff or plaintiffs, at whose suit, he, or they were outlawed: And that every person so outlawed, shall sue a Writ of Scire facias, against the party or parties, at whose suit, he, or they were so outlawed before this Pardon, in that behalf shall be allowed to him, or them that is so outlawed.  
Provided also, and be it enacted by the authority of this present Parliament, That this Act of general Pardon, shall not in any wise extend to any person outlawed upon any Writ of Capias ad satisfaciendum, until such times, as the party so outlawed, shall latiffie, or otherwise agree with the party, at whose suit the same person was so outlawed, or condemned.  
Provided also, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that neither this Act, nor any thing therein contained, shall not extend to pardon or discharge any offence committed or done by any Commissioner, Captain, or other person whatsoever, in the corrupt taking, or having of any Money, or other gift or reward, for the changing, releasing, or discharging of any Soldier, pressed, or appointed to serve his Majesty, in defence of the Realm, or otherwise.  
Provided always, and be it enacted, that this Act, nor any thing therein contained, shall not extend, or be construed, to pardon, or discharge any Debt, Account, Fine, Amerciament, Arrearage, or other duty, for which any Seizure, or Enstallment hath been made, & upon such Seizure or Enstallment, any thing answered to his Majesty, sithence the beginning of his Majesty's Reign; nor to pardon or discharge any Recognizance, Obligation or Bond, which is not yet forfeited, or being forfeited, is already given, granted, or assigned by his Majesty, or by his Letters, or Marrant under his pridy Signet, directed to be given, granted, or assigned unto any person or persons whatsoever.  
Provided always, & be it enacted by the authority aforesaid: that if any of the grants, made, or directed to be made, as aforesaid, of any debts, duties, penalties, or sums of money, mentioned in the aforesaid Exceptions, or any of them shall be hereafter surrendered, revoked, or otherwise determined, or avoided. That then, and from thenceforth, the said debts, duties penalties, & sums of money, shall by this gracious and free Pardon, be pardoned and discharged, as if no such clause had been inserted in any of the said Exceptions.