HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT  royal blazon surmounted by a crown and flanked by the English lion and Tudor rose on one side and the Scottish unicorn and thistle on the other  
AN ACT For Securing the PEACE Of the KINGDOM.  
Our Sovereign Lord, and the Estates of Parliament, do Ratify and Approve all Laws and Acts of Parliament made for Securing the Government of the Church as it is now Established by Law; And for the further Security of the peace of Church and State, as it is now established; They do hereby Statute and Ordain, that where any persons who are Tenants, as well in Burgh as Land, or servants being declared upon the Oath of Calumny of the Informer, shall be found Guilty or holden as confessed before any competent judicature for Field-Conventicles; or for resetting Preachers, who are or shall be Excommunicated, Intercommuned, or Declared Fugitives upon a Process intented against the said Tennauts and Servants within three months after committing of the said Crimes, that their Names, with the Sentence be intimated by the judge who pronounced the same under form of instrument, to the Master; if the Delinquent be a servant, or to the Heritor and Landlord in whose Land or houses he lives, if he be a Tenant or Cottar; which Master or Heritor shall be obliged within a Month after the said intimation, either to pay the Delinquents Fine (there being sufficient Goods to satisfy the same by and attour a years rend to the Master; or if he have not sufficient Goods, to put him and his Family out of his Land or house, if he be a Tenant or Cottar; and (if a Servant out of his service) or to present him to justice providing always that the Libel, whereupon the foresaid Sentence proceeded be special as to a certain place where the Field-Conventicle was keeped, or there about and also be special as to the time, viz a certain day of such a week, or one or other of the days of that week. And his Majesty, with the Advice and Consent of His Estates of Parliament Declares, that in this case, it shall be leisum to Heritors to put their Tenants off their Lands, or out of their Houses possessed by them, at any time of the year; and that without any Warning or Process of Removing: And not withstanding of any Tacks set to the Tenants for Years or Terms to run; which in this case are hereby Declared to be void and null, and the Masters & Heritors are hereby authorised and allowed to retain as much of the Goods and Gear belonging to the said Tenants, Cottars and Servants, as may satisfy and pay the last years Rend due by the Tenant and relieve them of the said Fines.  
And His Majesty with consent aforesaid Declares that if any man shall Resett or Entertain any Servant, Tenant or Cortar who is so put away, he shall be liable to pay three years' fee to the Master who did put him away and three years' duty to the Heritor who put away his Tenant or Cottar, if the said Tenants or Cottars so put away be Resett or Harboured by any other Heritor as said is; and likewise be liable in one hundred pounds Scots to be paid to the King. It is also hereby Statute and Ordained, That the Fines imposed by former Laws upon Field-Conventicles, shall be doubled, each person being by this Act Fineable by the former Laws: Except as to Burgesses of Burroughs Royal, Regality and Barony; who besides the incurring the former Fines for Field-Conventicles, are for the future to lose their Burgesships', and Liberties, and to be banished from the Town where they lived, and to the End that all the Laws against Conventicles may be the better put to Execution, It is hereby Declared, that it shall be Lawful to His Majesty to Nominate Sheriff-Deputs, justices of Peace, or other Commissioners for punishing Conventicles, and such as are guilty of irregular Marriages, Baptisms and invading of Ministers.   

Dublin, Reprinted by Benjamin took and John Crook Printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty And are to be sold by Mary Crook and Andrew Crook at His Majesty's Printing-House in Skinner-Row, 1681.