Anno Regni CAROLI II. REGIS Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, DVODECIMO.  
At the Parliament begun at Westminster, the Five and twentieth day of April, Anno Domini 1660.  
In the Twelfth year of the Reign of Our most Gracious Sovereign Lord CHARLES, by the Grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, etc.  
London, Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1660, CUM PRIVILEGIO.  
And Reprinted at Dublin by William Bladen Anno Dom. 1660.   

Anno Regni CAROLI II.  
AN OF ACT Free and General Pardon, INDEMNITY AND OBLIVION.  
THe King's most Excellent Majesty taking into his Gracious and Serious consideration the long and great Troubles Discords, and Wars, that have for many years passed been in this Kingdom, And that divers of his Subjects are by occasion thereof, and otherwise, fallen into and be obnoxious to great pains and penalties: Out of a hearty and pious Desire to put an end to all Suits and Controversies, that by occasion of the late Distractions have arisen or may arise between all his Subjects, And to the intent that no Crime whatsoever committed against his Majesty or his Royal Father, shall hereafter rise in Judgement, or be brought in Question against any of them to the least endamagement of them, either in their Lives, Liberties, Estates, or to the prejudice of their Reputations, by any Reproach or Term of Distinction; And to bury all Seeds of future Discords and remembrance of the former, aswell in his own breast as in the breasts of his Subjects one towards another: And in performance of his Royal and Gracious Word, signified by his Letters to the several Houses of Parliament now Assembled, and his Declarations in that behalf published, Is pleased that it may be Enacted, And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty, with the Advice and Consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, First, That all and all manner of Treasons. Misprisions of Treason, Murders, Felonies, Offences, Crimes, Contempts and Misdemeanours, Counselled, Commanded, Acted or Done since the first day of january, in the year of our Lord, 1637. by any person or persons before the 24. day of June, in the year of our Lord, 1660 other then the persons hereafter by name Excepted, in such manner as they are hereafter Excepted, by virtue or colour of any Command, Power, Authority, Commission, Warrant or Instructions from his late Majesty King CHARLES, or his Majesty that now is, or from any other person or persons, deriving or pretending to derive Authority, mediately or immediately from both or either of their Majesties, or by virtue or colour of any Authority derived mediately or immediately of or from both Houses, or either House of Parliament, or of, or from any Convention or Assembly, called or reputed, or taking on them the Name of a Parliament, Or by, from, or under any Authority styled or known by the Name of the Keepers of the Liberty of England, by Authority of Parliament, Or by virtue or colour of any Writ, Commission, Letters Patents, Instruction or Instructions of or from any person or persons, Tituled, reputed, or taken to be Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Dominions thereunto belonging, or Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Dominions and Territories thereto belonging, or assuming the Authority or reputed to be chief Magistrate of the Commonwealth, or Commander in chief of the Forces or Armies of this Nation by Sea or Land, or by any Pretence, Warrant, or Command whatsoever, from them or any of them, or their or either of their respective Councils, or Council, or any Member of such Council or Councils, or from any person or persons whatsoever, deriving or pretending to derive Authority from them, or any of them, be Pardoned, Released, Indemnified, Discharged, and put in utter Oblivion.  
And that all and every the person and persons, Acting, Advising, Assisting, Abetting, and Counselling the same, they, their Heirs, Executors, and Administrators, (Except as before is excepted) be and are hereby Pardoned, Released, Acquitted, Indemnified, and discharged from the same: And of and from all pains of death, and other pains, Judgements, Indictments, Convictions, Attainders, Outlawries, Penalties, Escheats and Forfeitures therefore had or given, or that might accrue for the same; And that all such Judgements, Indictments, Convictions, Attainders, Outlawries, Penalties, Escheats and Forfeitures, and every of them, and all Grants thereupon made, and all Estates derived under the same, be and are hereby Declared and Enacted to be from henceforth Null and void. And that all mean profits not yet received by such Grantees shall be, and are hereby discharged: And that all and every person and persons, bodies Politic and Corporate, their and every of their Heirs, Executors, Administrators and Successors, shall be and are hereby restored to all and every their Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, Goods, Chattels and other things Forfeited, which to his Majesty do or shall appertain by reason of any offence herein before mentioned, and not hereafter in this present Act excepted and foreprised.  
And be it further Enacted, That all Appeals, and all personal Actions, Suits, Molestations and Prosecutions whatsoever, for or by reason of any act of Hostility, Trespass, Assault, Imprisonment or breach of the Peace, Advised, Counselled, Commanded, appointed, Happened, Acted or done by reason of the late Troubles, or the late Wars in his Majesty's Dominions, or relating thereunto, and all Judgements and Executions thereupon had before the First day of May, in the year of our Lord, 1658. stand and be from henceforth discharged; But not to restore to any person or persons any sums of money, mean Profits or Goods already received or taken upon such Execution, or to give any account for the same.  
And be it likewise Enacted, That all Appeals and all personal Actions and Causes of such Actions, Suits, Molestations and Prosecutions whatsoever, for or by reason of any Act or thing Advised, Counselled, Commanded, Acted or done by virtue or colour of any Authority or Commission granted by his late Majesty, or his Majesty that now is, or by virtue or colour of any Order or Ordinance of one or both Houses of Parliament sitting at Westminster; Or by any Act or Order made by any persons assuming the Name of a Parliament, and sitting as a Parliament at Westminster after the death of the late King CHARLES the First; Or by the Authority of the said Keepers of the Liberties of England; Or by any Ordinance by either of the late Protectors and Council; Or by or upon any Commission, Writ, Procels, or Warrant by them or any of them, or by Authority derived from them or any of them: And all demands of Arrearages of Rents and mean Profits of Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments heretofore incurred or grown due, which have beed paid, received or disposed by virtue or colour of any the Authorities or pretended Authorities aforesaid; other than such Arrearages or mean Profits as are or shall be otherwise disposed by any Act, or Acts of this present Session of Parliament, be from henceforth discharged.  
And it is further by the Authority aforesaid Enacted in the second place, That all and every the Subjects of these his Majesty's Realms of England and Ireland, the Dominion of Wales, the Isles of jersey and Garnsey, and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, and other his Majesty's Dominions, the Heirs, Executors, and Administrators of them, and every of them, and all and singular Bodies in any manner of wise Corporated, Cities, Burroughs. Shires, Ridings Hundreds, Laths, Rapes, Wappentakes, Towns, Villages, Hamlets and tithings, and every of them, and the Successor and Successors of every of them, shall be, and are by the Authority of this present Parliament Acquitted, Pardoned, Released, Indemnified and Discharged against the King's Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, and every of them, of and from all manner of Treasons, Misprisions of Treason, Felonies, Offences, Contempts, Trespasses, Entries, Wrongs, Deceits, Misdemeanours, Forfeitures, Penalties, and sums of Money, Intrusions, Mean Profits, Wardships, Marriages, Reliefs, Liveries, Ouster le mains, Mean Rates, Respites of Homage, Fines and Seizures for Alienation without Licence, Arrearages of Rents, (other than the Arrearages of Rents due from the late Farmers, or pretended Farmers of the Excize or Customs respectively, and other than such Arrearages of Rents, or Mean Profits, as are or shall be otherwise disposed by any Act or Acts of this present Parliament) and of and from all Arrearages of Tenths and First Fruits, Fines, Post-Fines, Issues and Amerciaments, and all Recognizances, Bonds, or other Securities given for Payment of them, or any of them, Concealments of Customs and Excize, Arrearages of Purveyance, and of Compositions for the same, and of and from all Pains of Death, Pains Corporal and Pecuniary, and generally of and from all other Things, Causes, Quarrels, Suits, Judgements and Executions in this present Act hereafter not Excepted nor Foreprized, which may be or can be by his Majesty in any wise, or by any means Pardoned, before and unto the 24. day of june, in the year of our Lord, 1660. to every or any of his said Subjects, Bodies Corporate, Cities, Burroughs, Shires, Ridings, Hundreds, Laths, Rapes, Wappentakes, Towns, Villages and Tithings, or any of them.  
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all Grants and Patents since the 25. of March, 1641. touching the Wardship and Custody of the Body and Lands, or touching the Marriage of any Heir within Age, and all Mean Profits yet unreceived, and demandable by reason thereof, shall be, and are hereby from henceforth discharged.  
And also the King's Majesty is contented, That it be further Enacted by Authority of this present Parliament, and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That this his said Free Pardon, Indemnity and Oblivion shall be as good and 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 and foreprized, as the same Pardon, Indemnity and Oblivion 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 Foreprized, had been particularly, singularly, especially, and plainly named, rehearsed and specified, and 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, Indemnity and Oblivion: 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 beforenamed and rehearsed, nor any of them, be, nor shall be sued, vexed, or inquieted, by, or on the behalf of the King's Majesty, his Heirs or Successors, in their bodies, Goods, Chattels, 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 24. day of June 1660. against His late Majesty King Charles, or his Majesty that now is, His Crown, Dignity, Prerogative, Laws or Statutes, but only for such Matters, Causes and Offences as be excepted and foreprized by this present Act out of the same, any Statute or Statutes, Laws, Customs, or Usages heretofore had, made or used to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding: And that all and every the Kings said Subjects, and all and singular the Bodies Corporate, and others before rehearsed, may by him or themselves, or by his or their Deputy or Deputies, or by his or their Attorney or Attorneys, according to the Laws of this Realm, plead and minister this present Act of Free Pardon, for his or their Discharge, of or 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 and pleased, That it be Enacted, and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That this his said Free Pardon, Indemnity and Oblivion, by the general Words, Clauses and Sentences before rehearsed, shall be reputed deemed, adjudged, expounded, allowed, and 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, and to every of them in all things, not in this present Act excepted or foreprized, 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 their General Attorney or Atorneys, or by any person or persons for his Highness, or any of his Heirs or Successors.  
And furthermore be it Enacted by the King our Sovereign Lord, and by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Officer or Clerk of any of his Highness' Courts, commonly called the Chancery, Kings-Bench, and Common-Pleas, or of his Exchequer, or any other Officer or Clerk of any other of his Highness Courts within this Realm, at any time after the passing of this present Act, 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, Distrained, Summoned, or otherwise Vexed, Inquieted, or grieved in his or their Bodies, Lands, Tenements, Goods, or Chattels, 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 passing of this present Act, 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, and shall also forfeit and lose to the King's Majesty for every such desault Ten pounds: And nevertheless all and singular such Writts, Process and Precepts so to be made for, or upon any manner of thing pardoned or discharged by this present Act of Free Pardon, Indemnity and Oblivion, shall be utterly void and of none effect.  
Except and always foreprized out of this Free and general Pardon, all Murders done or committed by any Person or Persons other than such which are Pardoned and Discharged in the first Clause of Pardon above mentioned: And also excepted and always foreprized out of this General and Free Pardon all and every offences of piracy and Robbery done upon the Seas, not done in relation to the Differences and Wars aforesaid, and every procuring or abetting of any such Offenders, and the comforting and receiving of them, or any of them, or any Goods taken by way of such Piracy or Robbery upon the Seas as aforesaid: And also excepted the detestable and abominable Vice of Buggery committed with Mankind or Beast: And also excepted all Rapes and carnal Ravishments of Women: And also excepted all Ravishments, and wilful taking away, or manying 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 offences made Felony by a certain Act made and ordained, Entitled, An Act to restrain all Persons from Marriage until their former Wives and former Hushands be dead: And also excepted all offences of Invocations, Conjurations, Witchcrafts, Sorceries, Enchantments, and Charms; and all offences of procuring abetting, or comforting of the same: and all persons now attainted or convicted of any the said excepted Offences: And also excepted all and singular the Accounts of all and every person and persons appointed by any of the Authorities, or pretended Authorities aforesaid, to be Treasurer, Receiver, Farmer or Collector, (other than the Subcollectors of the several Parishes, Towns and Hamlets respectively, for, and concerning their Receipts before the ●4. day of June in the year of our Lord 1659.) who have received or collected any Subsidy, Custom, Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage, prize-good, Assessment, Sequestration, New Impost or Excise, or of any the Rents and Revenues of any Lands or Hereditaments, of or belonging unto the late King, Queen, or Prince, or King that now is, or belonging to the late Archbishoprics, Bishoprics, Deans, or Deans and Chapters, Canons, prebend's, and other Officers belonging to any Cathedral or Collegiate Church, or Popish Recusants convict, or of Persons Sequestered for their recusancy, or other sequestered Estates Received or Collected by, or paid unto them since the 30. of January in the year of our Lord 1642; and of all Moneys and other Duties grown due or contracted upon the Sale or Disposition of them, or any of them.  
Provided, That the Heirs, Executors, Administrators or Tertenants of the Lands of any Accountant within this Exception now deceased, shall not be charged with, nor liable unto any Account for the matters in this Exception mentioned: Except for such Sum or Sums of Money as remain due upon any of their Accounts already stated and determined, and are not yet paid in, and that no Accountant as abovesaid, now living, shall be liable to make account of any Sum or Sums of Money, paid or disbursed, or otherwise allowed, or discharged, by virtue or colour of any Order or Ordinances of both or either House or Houses of Parliament, or any Convention or Assembly called, or Reputed, or taking on them the name of a Parliament, or of Oliver Cromwell, pretended Protector, or of Richard his Son, while he continued, or was styled, or obeyed as Protector, or by any Persons acting as a Committee appointed by the said two Houses, or either of them, or by any such Convention, or Assembly, or any Order or Direction of such Committee or Committees, or any Person or Persons acting as a Public Council, though having no legal Authority so to do, or by their, or any their Order or Orders, or Direction.  
It being further Declared and Enacted, and is Enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That no person or persons shall be charged for any Moneys by him received for the Fees, Salaries, and Wages then allowed, or for Moneys by him disbursed upon any public use, or pretence, though the Direction, or Authority whereby the same Money was Issued, was not, or be not Legal and Warrantable in Law.  
And be it further Provided, That no Military, or Commissioned Officer of the Armies, or Navies, or Soldier, or Mariner, who before the 25. of March, 1659. hath received any Moneys for his own Pay, or the Pay of other Soldiers, or for any other Contingencies of the Soldiers, or Garrisons under his Command, or by way of reward, shall be called to account therefore.  
And that no person whatsoever shall be called to account for any the matters in this Exception mentioned, after the 24. of June. which shall be in the year of our Lord God, 1662. now next ensuing; And that in case any person who stands accountable for any moneys received since the first of January, 1642, and before the 30. of January 1648, have been robbed, or plundered by Soldiers, or others, of the moneys in their hands, or of any Notes, or Books of receipt, touching their payments or discharge, Then the oath or oaths of such party or parties of the same respectively, shall be a good discharge for so much of their account. And that the Oath of every Accountant in or between the years, 1642, and 1648. of what they have paid to any public use, by, or according to any public or pretended Order or Authority whatsoever, shall be a good discharge, as to so much of the account of such person or persons. And except all First fruits and tenths in the hands of any Receiver not having disbursed, as in the last Exception is expressed.  
Provided, That all and every Judgement of Discharge, or quietus est, had, or given at any time upon any account in the Public Exchequer, since the year 1648, be allowed, and shall not be avoided; except all accounts of the Revenues of Churches and Vicaridges in Wales, and the County of Monmouth, and all Judgements of discharge, or quietus thereupon obtained, and also Excepted out of this Pardon all offences of Bribery, Perjuries and the Subornation of Perjury, or Witnesses and Offences of Forging or Counterfeiting any Deeds, Debentures, Bills of Public Faith, Escripts, Wills, or other Writings whatsoever, or of any Examinations or Testimonies of any Witness or Witnesses, tending to bring any person or persons in danger of his Life, Liberty, or Estate, and the giving the same in evidence, and the compelling or procuring of any such counterfeiting or forging to be had or made.  
And who excepted all Offences in detaining, imbesling, or purloining any the Goods, Money, Chattels or Jewels of the late King, Queen, or Prince, or any of the children of the late King and Queen, other then Shipping, Stores, and Ammunitions of War, and other than such Goods and Chattels as have been sold or disposed of to any of the Servants or Creditors of his late Majesty, in, or toward satisfaction of their Debts or Wages.  
And also Excepted out of this Pardon, all Issues, Fines, and Amercements, Rents, and other Public Duties being Leavyed, Received or collected by any Sheriff, under-Sheriff, Bailiff, Minister, or other Officer, to, or for the use of the late King, the Parliament, or the said Keepers of the Liberty of England, or any other person styling himself Protector or for his Majesty that now is, and not accounted for, and discharged.  
And also Excepted out of this Pardon, all and every offence and offences committed or done by any Jesuit, Seminary, or Romish Priest whatsoever, contrary to the Tenor or Effect of the Statute made in the 27, year of the Reign of the late Queen Elisabeth, Entitled, An Act against Jesuits, Seminaries, Priests, and other disobedient Persons, or of any part thereof, and all Outlawries, Proceed, Judgements, and Executions for the same offences, or any of them.  
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 Officer of the Courts at Westminster, to award and make Writs of Capias Vtlagatum, at the suit of the Party Plaintiff, against such Persons Out-layed, as be pardoned by this Act, to the intent to compel the Defendant, or Defendants to make answer, to the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, at whose Suit, he or they were Out lawed. And that every person so Out lawed 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 him or them so Outlawed.  
Provided, and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid; That this Act of General Pardon, shall not in any wise extend to Pardon any Outlawries upon any Writ of Capias ad Satisfaciendum, until such time as the Party so Outlawed shall satisfy, or otherwise agree with the Party at whose Suit the same Person was so Outlawed or Condemned.  
And also excepted out of this Pardon all Informations and other Proceed Depending, Concerning any Common Highways or Bridges, and all Issues, returned upon any Process, concerning the same, since the 30 day of January, 1648; Except also all Recognizances, Obligations and other Securities given, or Entered into, since the 25. of March, 1640, by any Receiver, Reeve, Bailiff, Collector, or other Accountant in the Court of the Public Exchequer, and their Sureties and their Accounts Respectively.  
Provided always, and be it Enacted; That this Act or any thing therein Contained, shall not extend, or be Construed to Pardon, or Discharge any Recognizance, Obligation or Bond which is not yet forfeited.  
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid; That all Acts of Hostility and Injuries, whether between the late King, and the Lords and Commons then in Parliament assembled; or between any of the People of this Nation, which did arise upon any Action, Attempt, Assistance, Council, or Advice, having Relation unto, or falling out by reason of the late Troubles, or in the late Wars, or Public Differences between the late King and Parliament, or between his now Majesty, or any of his Subjects, and which are not in this Act excepted; that the same and whatsoever hath ensued thereupon, whether trenching upon the Laws and Liberties of this Nation, or upon the Honour of his Majesty, or upon the Honour of Authority of the Parliament, or to the prejudice of any Particular or Private Person, shall in no time, from and after the 24. of June, in the year of our Lord 1660. be called in question, whatsoever be the quality of the Person, or of whatsoever Kind or Degree, Civil or Criminal, the Injury is supposed to be; And that no mention be made thereof in time to come in judgement or judicial proceed.  
And to the intent and purpose that all names and terms of distinction may be likewise put into utter Oblivion, Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid; That if any Person or Persons, within the space of three years next ensuing, shall presume maliciously to call or allege of, or object against any other Person or Persons, any Name or Names or other words of Reproach, any way tending to revive the Memory of the ●●te Differences or the Occasions thereof; That then every such person, so as aforesaid Offending shall Forfeit and Pay, unto the Party Grieved, in Case such Party offending shall be of the Degree of a Gentleman or above, ten Pounds; and if under that Degree the Sum of forty Shillings, to be recovered by the Party grieved, by Action of Debt to be therefore brought in any of his Majesty's Courts of Record, wherein no E●●oign, Protection, or Wager of Law shall be allowed, or any more than one Imparlance, so as the same Action be commenced or prosecuted within six months' next after the Offence Committed: And if the Jury sworn to try any Issue or Issues that shall be joined in such Action shall find for the Plaintiff, they shall likewise give to every such Plaintiff forty shllings Damages, over and above the Penalty aforesaid.  
Provided, always that this Act, or any thing therein contained shall not extend, or give any Benefit to any Person or Persons, who have had any hand in the Plotting, Contriving, or designing the Great and Heinous Rebellion of IRELAND mentioned in one Act passed in the Parliament, begun at WESTMINSTER the 3. day of November, In the sixteenth year of King CHARLES Entitled, An Act for the speedy and effectual Reducing of the Rebels in his Majesty's Kingdom of IRELAND to their due obedience, to his Majesty and Crown of ENGLAND, Or in Aiding, Assisting, or Abetting the same: (other than such as by another Act intended hereafter to be passed, shall be therein named, mentioned, or expressed to be pardoned,) Nor to enure to restore to any person or persons, Bodies Politic or Corporate, other than then the marquis of Ormond, Lord Steward of his Majesty's Household, and other the Protestants of IRELAND) and their Heirs, and such other person and persons as in, and by an Act intended hereafter to be Passed, shall be therein named, mentioned, or expressed in that behalf, any Estate, Liberties, Franchises, or Hereditaments in England or Ireland, sold, or disposed of by both, or either Houses of Parliament, or any Convention assuming the Style or Name of a Parliament, or any person or persons deriving Authority from them, or any of them, or which was approved or confirmed by them, or any of them; Nor to the Mean Profits, Rents, or contingencies of advantage of the same.  
And it is further Provided and Enacted, That every person or persons hereby pardoned, may plead the general issue, without special pleading of this pardon, and give this Act of Pardon in evidence for his discharge, and that the same shall be thereupon allowed, and the advantage thereof had as fully to all intens and purposes, as if the same had been fully and well pleaded; And in such manner as any Justice of the Peace, Constable, or other Officer, questioned for matters acted by them as Officers, or in execution of their Offices, may have advantage of the matter of their justification, upon the general Issue by them pleaded, by the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom.  
Provided also, That this Act nor any thing therein contained, shall Extend or be interpreted to extend to Pardon any Person or Persons whatsoever, for any Theft or Stealing of any goods, or other Felonies, since the fourth day of March in the year of our Lord, One thousand six hundred fifty and nine, any thing in this Act contained to the contrary thereof in any wise Notwithstanding.  
Provided also, That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained, shall Extend to Acquit or Discharge any person or persons, from making Restitution of all such Rents, Sums of Money, Horses, Cattle, or other Goods, which by a certain Act, or pretended Act lately made, Entitled, An Act for Repeal of two Acts for Sequestrations, Are required to be restored to those from whom they were taken; Nor shall this present Act be construed to Disable, or Bar the Respective Owners, or Proprietors, of and from their Several and Respective Actions, or Suits at Law, or in Equity, for, or by reason of the said, or any other Rents, Moneys, Horses, Cattle, or Goods, which since the Five and twentieth day of July, One thousand six hundred fifty and nine, have been by any person or persons wrongfully received, or taken away, and for which the said wrong doers are not in any wise Indemnified by the said or any other Act of Repeal.  
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That no person or persons who by virtue of any Order or Warrant mediately or immediately derived from His late Majesty, or His Majesty that now is, or by virtue of any Act, Ordinance or Order of any or both Houses of Parliament, or any of the Authorities aforesaid, or any Committee or Committees acting under them, or any of them, have Seized, Sequestered, Levied, Advanced or paid to any Public Use, or into any Public Treasury within this Kingdom, any Goods, Chattels. Debts, Rents, Sum or Sums of Money belonging to any person or persons whatsoever, shall hereafter be Sued, Molested or Drawn into Question for the same, but that they and every of them shall be Discharged against all persons for so much and no more of the said Goods, Chartels, Debts, Rents, Sum or Sums of Money, as their several and respective Orders of Discharge or Acquittances extend unto.  
Provided also, That nothing herein contained shall extend to Discharge any person or persons who have been by private Order or instructions employed and entrusted, or have undertaken the employment to Receive any Sum or Sums of Money for the King's Majesty's Service or Supply, ●nce the Year One thousand six hundred forty and eight, from making their Accounts for the same.  
Provided also, That this Act shall not extend to pardon or Discharge from Account to the King's Majesty, any person or persons for any Sum or Sums of Money received for that illegal Tax of Decimation, or upon the Account of any Militia settled or acted in since One thousand six hundred forty and eight, and not Accounted for, or paid over, or Discharged to or by any that had Authority, or pretended Authority to Discharge the respective Receivers of the same.  
Provided also, That if any person or persons being His Majesty's Mesnial Servant or Servants, or having or pretending to have received particular Intructions or Directions from His Majesty, have during the time of such his or their relation unto His Majesty, or whilst he or they were acting, or pretending to act for His Majesty's Interest, in pursuance of the said Instructions or Directions, Wilfully, Maliciously and Traitorously held Intelligence with any Foreign Prince or Princes, State or States, or with any person or persons usurping Supreme Authority in this Kingdom, or other His Majesty's Dominions, or with their or either of their Ministers or Agents, and without His Majesty's licence, and to the intent to betray His Majesty's Person or Counsels, or have received any Sum or Sums of Money, or Pension for such Treachery, That then such person and persons, as to the Offence in this Proviso mentioned, shall be and is hereby Excepted out of this Act, any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding; so as such Person or Persons be Outlawed, or otherwise legally Convicted of such Offence or Offences within the space of Two years from the Five and twentieth day of April, One thousand six hundred and sixty.  
Provided, That this Act of General Pardon, or any thing therein contained, shall not extend to the Pardoning or Discharging of any Debts or Sums of Money due to or for the Excize of any Goods or Merchandise, whereof any Entries have been made in the Custom House, which have grown due since the Twenty fifth day of March, One thousand six hundred fifty and eight, or to the Pardoning or Discharging of any Debts or Sums of Money due to the Farmers, or pretended Farmers of Excize, since the Twenty fifth day of March, One thovand six hundred fifty and seven.  
Provided also, That this Act, nor any thing therein contained, shall extend to Pardon, Discharge, or give any other Benefit whatsoever unto John Lisle, William Say, Sir Hardress Waller, Valentine Wauton, Thomas Harrison, Edward whaley, William Heveningham, Isaac Penington, Henry Martin, John Barkstead, Gilbert Millington, Edmund Ludlow, Sir Michael Livesey, Robert Titchborn, Owen Row, Robert Lilburn, Adrian Scroop, John Okey, John Hewson, William Goff, Cornelius Holland, Thomas chaloner, John Carew, John Jones, Miles Corbet, Henry Smith, Gregory Clement, Thomas Wogan, Edmond Harvey, Thomas Scot, William Cawley, John Downs, Nicholas Love, Vincent Potter, Augustine Garland, John Dixwell, George Fleetwood, Simon Meyn, James Temple, Peter Temple, Daniel Blagrave, Thomas Wait, John Cook, Andrew Broughton, Edward Dendy, William Hewlet, Hugh Peter, Francis Hacker, Daniel Axtel, nor any of them, nor to those Two persons, or either of them who being Disguised by Frocks and Vizors did appear upon the Scaffold erected before Whitehall upon the Thirtieth of january, One thousand six hundred forty and eight: All which Persons for their Execrable Treason, in Sentencing to death, or Signing the Instrument for the Horrid Murder, or being instrumental in taking away the precious Lise of Our late Sovereign Lord CHARLES the First of Glorious Memory, are left to be proceeded against as Traitors to his late Majeny, according to the Laws of England, and are out of this present Act wholly Excepted and Foreprized.  
But in regard the said Owen Row, Augustine Garland Edmond Harvey. Henry Smith, Henry Martin, Sir Hardress Waller, Robert Titchborn, George Fleetwood, james Temple, Thomas Wait, Simon Meyn, William Heveningham, Isaac Penington, Peter Temple, Robert Lilburn, Gilbert Millington, Vincent Potter, Thomas Wogan, and john Downs, have personally appeared and rendered themselves (according to the Proclamation bearing Date the Sixth day of june, One thousand six hundred and sixty, to Summon the Persons therein named, who gave Judgement and Assisted in the said Horrid and Detestable Murder of our said late Sovereign, to appear and render themselves) and do pretend thereby to some favour, upon some conceived doubtful Words in the said Proclamation;  
Be it Enacted by this present Parliament, and the Authority of the same (upon the humble desires of the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled) That if the said Owen Row, Augustine Garland, Edmond Harvey, Henry Smith, Henry Martin, Sir Harpress Waller, Robert Titchborn George Fleetwood, james Temple, Thomas Wait, Simon Meyn, Willtam H●veningham, Isaac Penington, Peter Temple, Robert Lilburn, Gilbert Millington, Vincent Poeter, Thomas W●gan and john Downs, or any of them, shall be legally Attainted for the Horrid Treason and Murder aforesaid; that then, nevertheless, the Execution of the said Person and Persons so Attainted shall be suspended, until His Majesty by the Advise and Assent of the Lords and Commons in Parliament, shall Order the Execution by Act of Parliament to be passed for that purpose.  
Except also out of this present Act Oliver Cromwell deceased, Henry Ireton deceased, john Bradshaw deceased, and Thomas Pride deceased.  
Provided that nothing in this Act contained shall extend to Discharge the Lands, Tenements, Goods. Chattels, Rights, Trusts, and other the Hereditaments late of the said Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton, john Bradshaw and Thomas Pride; or of Isaac Ewer deceased, Sir john Danvers deceased, Sir Thomas Maleverer Baronet, deceased, William Purefoy deceased, john Blakiston deceased, Sir William Constable Baronet, deceased, Richard Dean decealed, Francis Al●ya deceased, Peregrin Pelham deceased, john Moor deceased, john Aldred, alias Alured, deceased, Humphrey Edward's deceased, Sir Gregory Norton B●r●●et deceased, john Venn deceased, Thomas Andrews Alderman, deceased, Anthony Stapely deceased, Thomas Horton deceased. john Fry deceased, Thomas Hamond deceased, Sir john Bourchler deceased, of and from such Pains, Penalties and Forfeitures, as by one other Act of Parliament intended to be hereafter Passed for that purpose, shall be Expressed and Declared.  
And also Except out of this present Act, William Lord Mounson, james chaloner, Sir Henry Mildmay, Sir james Harrington, john Phelps, and Robert Wallop; All which persons did Act and Sat in that Traitorous Aslembly, which in the Month of january 1648 acted and proceeded against the Life of our late Sovereign, King CHARLES the First of blessed Memory; and are therefore reserved to such Pains, Penalties and Forfeitures, not extending to Lise as by another Act intended to be passed for that purpose shall be imposed on them.  
And also Except Sir Arthur H●silrigg, for and in respect only of such Pains, Penalties and Forfeitures, not extending to Life, as by one Act intended to be hereafter passed for that purpose shall be Inflicted and Imposed.  
Provided always, That john Hutchinson Esq and Francis Lassells, shall be and are hereby made for ever incapable to Execute any Place or Office of Trust, Civil or Military, within this Kingdom; And that the said Franeiss Lassells shall pay unto our Sovereign Lord the King. One ●ul● years value of his Estate, Any thing herein before contained to the contrary notwithstanding.  
Provided always, That this Act, or any thing therein contained, shall not extend to the Pardoning, or to give any other benefit whatsoever unto Sir Henry Vane, john Lambert, or either of them, but that they and either of them, are and shall be out of this present Act wholly, Excepted and Foreprized.  
Provided that if William Lenthall, William Burton, Oliver St. john, john Ireton Alderman, Col William Sydenham, Col. john Desborow, john Blackwel of Moreclack, Christopher Pack Alderman, Richard Keeble, Charles Fleetwood, john Pyne, Richard Dean, Maj. Richard Creed, Philip Nye Clerk, john Goodwin Clerk, Sir Gilbert Pickering, Colonel Thomas Lister, and Col. Ralph Cobbet, shall after the First day of September 1660 accept, or exercise any Office Ecclesiastical, Civil or Military, or any other Public Employment within this Kingdom of England, Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick upon Tweed that then such Person or Persons as do to accept or execute as aforesaid, shall to all intents and purposes in Law stand as if he or they had been totally excepted by name in this Act.  
Provided likewise, That all those who since the Fifth of December, One thousand six hundred forty eight, did give Sentence of Death upon any Person or Persons, in any of the late Illegal and Tyrannical High Courts of Justice in England or Wales, or signed the Warrant for Execution of any Person there condemned (except Colonel Richard jugoldsby, and Colonel Matthew Thomlinson) shall be and are hereby made incapable of bearing any Office. Ecclesiastical, Civil or Military within the Kingdom of England, or Dominion of Wales, or of serving as a Member in any Parliament after the First day of September, One thousand six hundred and sixty.  
Provided also and it is Enacted, That all and every the Persons appointed trusties in a late pretended Act or Ordinance made in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty nine, for and concerning Tithes appropriate, Oblations, Obventions, Pensions, Portions of Tithes appropriate, Offerings, Fee-farm Rents, issuing out of the Tithes therein mentioned, First-fruits and other things, and Enacted or mentioned to be Enacted to be vested, settled, adjudged, or deemed to be in the actual Seisin or possession of such Person and Persons in the said pretended Act or Ordinance mentioned, and their Heirs, shall account for and be responsible for all Rents and Profits of the Premises which came to their hands, and have not been by the said trusties or their Order disbursed, disposed or employed, for the maintenance of Ministers or other uses, according to the said pretended Act or Ordinance, or some other Act. Order or Ordinance made in the years of our Lord, 1650, 1654., and 1656. by any Assemlby called or reputed a Parliament, or assuming the power of Parliament, according to the intention of such Act, Acts, or Ordinances, and the Agents and Receivers under the Order of the said trusties, and the Occupiers and Tenants of the Premises, who have taken the premises or profits thereof into their hands, without agreement to pay Rend therefore, and 〈◊〉 made no account or satisfaction to the trusties aforesaid, or to some other by their Order; 〈◊〉 also the Persons who have held the same, or taken the profits thereof under any agreement to pay Rend or Money for the same, and have not paid the same, shall respectively account, pay and make satisfaction for so much of the Premises, and profits of the premises as are unsatisfied or unaccounted for as aforesaid, and pay such Arrearages of Rents or Money, as by such Agreement remaineth unpaid by them: all which payments and accounts shall be made to such 〈◊〉, and in such manner as in Parliament shall be directed. Nevertheless it is not hereby 〈◊〉, That any Minister, Schoolmaster, or other Person for whose benefit or maintenance the said pretended Acts or Ordinances were made, shall be accountable or liable to make satisfaction for any Profits, Rents, or sums of Money paid to, or taken by them respectively, by virtue or colour of any Order or Appointment of the said trusties, or any of them, or otherwise.  
Provided also, That this Act do not extend to Pardon any Bond taken in his late Majesty's Name, before the Month of May One thousand six hundred forty two, for securing the proper debt of any Servant or Receiver of the Revenue of His said late Majesty, that hath not been paid to or by Order of some lawful or pretended Authority; And whereas by an Order of the six and twentieth day of May in the year One thousand six hundred forty one, the then House of Commons in Parliament did accept the sum of One hundred and fifty thou and pounds, as a Composition from the Farmers of several Customs, Voted to be Illegally taken, and some of the said Farmers did procure and pay the said whole sum of One hundred and fifty thousand pounds at the desire of the said House of Commons, and upon their Declaration, that such of the said Farmers as did not pay their proportions, should not be Pardoned but proceeded against, and out of their Fines Satisfaction should be made to those who had paid the aid One hundred and fifty thousand pounds, and in pursuance thereof did on the First of June than next following, Resolve, That the Estates of such Persons living or dead, as have by colour of any Patent received moneys from the Subject under pretence of such Cus●o●ns or have been under-sharers with the Patentees, aught to be made liable to Restitution; It is therefore Provided, That this Act shall not extend nor be construed to extend to Pardon or Indem●nifie any Person or Persons, their Heirs, Executors, Administrators or Assigns, who have not paid their proportions of the said One hundred and fifty thousand pounds, or aught to have been contributory thereunto, from or against Misdemeanours or Offences relating to the said Customs, or from payment of their Proportions: But that the Estates of the dead, aswell as of the living, of such who ought to have been Contributory, in whose possession soever (Purchasers Bona fide, and upon valuable considerations only excepted) shall continue, and be charged and chargeable with the payment of their Proportions to all intent and purposes as if this Act had not been made, any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.  
Provided also, That this Act, or any thing therein contained, shall not extend or be construed to Pardon or Discharge any Sum or Sums of Money due and in Arrear for Excise of Beer, Ale, or other Native or Inland Commodity, since the Twenty fourth day of june, One thousand six hundred fifty and nine  
Provided also, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend to the Pardoning or Discharging of any Sum or Sums of money, due from any Officers or Soldiers to any of the Subjects of this Kingdom for Free quarter, since the Second day of july One thousand six hundred fifty and nine, or to Discharge any moneys borrowed by any Officers for preventing of Free quarter.  
Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That no Conveyance, Assurance, Grant, Bargain, Sale, Charge, Lease, Assignment of Lease, Grants, and Surrenders by Copy of Court-Roll, Estate, Interest, Trust, or Limitation of any use or uses, of any Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, not being the Lands, nor Hered taments of the late King. Queen, Prince, or of any Archbishops, Bishops, Deans, Deans or Chapters, nor being Lands, or Hereditaments, Sold or given or appointed to be Sold or given for the Delinquency, or pretended Delinquency of any person or persons whatsoever, by virtue or pretext of any Act, Order or Ordinance, or reputed Act, Order or Ordinance, since the First day of january, 1641, nor any Statute, Judgement, or Recognizance had made, acknowledged or suffered, to any person or persons, Bodies politic or Corporate, before the Nine and twentieth day of September, One thousand six hundred fifty and nine, by any of the persons before in this Act by name excepted, or their Heirs, or by any other person or persons claiming by, from, or under them, or any of them, other than the Wife or Wives, Child, Children, Heir and Heirs of such person and persons or any of them, for money Bona fide to them or any of them paid or lent; nor any Conveyance, Assurance, Grant, or Estate made before the Five and twentieth day of April, One thousand six hundred and sixty, by any person or persons to any 〈◊〉 person or persons excepted by name as aforesaid, in Trust and for the Benefit of any other person or persons, Bodies politic or Corporate not excepted by name as aforesaid, shall be Impeached, Defeated, made void, or frustrated hereby, or by the attainder or conviction of any such excepted person or persons, but that the same shall be held and enjoyed by the Purchasers Grantees, Leslees, Assignees, Cestuy que use, Cestuy que trust, and every of them, their 〈◊〉 Executors, Administrators, and Assigns respectively, as if this Act had not been made, 〈…〉 if the said person or persons had not been excepted, attainted, or Convicted, any Law, Stature, Usage, or Custom to the contrary thereof in any w●●e notwithstanding.  
Provided always, That this Act, nor any thing therein contained shall not extend to Indemnify any person or persons whatsoever, who have entered into any Messages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments called Fabric Lands, or possessed themselves of any Rent or Revenues given for the repair of any Cathedral or other Church, or who have Sacrilegiously enriched themselves by converting the Plate, or Utensils and Materials of or belonging to such Churches to their own private use and advantage, for or in respect of the said Crimes only.