¶ The Kings majesties free and most general Pardon.  
THe Kings most royal Majesty right well perceiving his loving subjects by many and sundry ways and means to have borne and sustained the great adventures, charges and businesses of wars and defences of this his realm, aswell in the time of his most dear father king Henry the right, as in his time and reign, intending of his clemency and pity to gratify his said subjects with his graces free and liberal pardon according to his kingly power, trusting assuredly that his said subjects will continue his loving and assured obedient subjects, and hereafter in such sort obey his highness laws and statutes, as to them and every of them of right appertaineth: is fully and resolutely contented and pleased, that it be enacted by authority of this present Parliament in manner and form following, that is to say, that all and every of his said subjects, aswell spiritual as temporal of this his realm of England, Wales, the Isles of jernesey and Gernesey, Berwick, calais, Guysnes, Hams, Boulogne and Bullonoys & the Marches of the same, the heirs, successors, executors, and administrators of them and every of them, and all and singular bodies in any manner of wise corporate, Cities, boroughs, Shires, Ridynges, hundreds, lathes, rapes wapentakes, towns, villages and tithynges, and every of them, & the successor and successors of them, shallbe by th'authority of this present Parliament acquitted, pardoned, released and discharged against the kings highness, his heirs, successors and executors, and every of them of all manner of treasons, heresies, felonies, robberies, offences, contempts, trespasses, wrongs, deceipts, misdemeanours, forfeitures, penalties, and profits, sums of money, pains of death, pains corporal, & pecuniary, and all other things, causes, quarrels, suits, judgements and executions, which may be, or can be by his highness in any wise, or by any means pardoned before & unto the xiiii. day of March in the year of our Lord God M. CCCCC. xlviii. other than such as hereafter in this act be excepted or foreprised in such manner and form, & unto such times as they be excepted or foreprised in this act, and other than such as the clauses of proviso hereafter mentioned doth extend unto.  
AND also the kings highness is further contented and pleased that it be enacted by the authority of this present Parliament, that this his said general and free pardon, shallbe as good and effectual in the law, to every of his said subjects, bodies corporate, and other before rehearsed, & to every of them, by the said general words before rehearsed in all things which be not hereafter in this present act excepted or foreprised, as the same pardon should have been, if all offences, contempts, forfeitures, causes, matters, suits, quarrels, judgements, executions, penalties, & all other things not hereafter excepted, nor contained in any clause of proviso hereafter mentioned had been particularly, singularly, specially & 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 be put in and expressed in this act of free pardon.  
AND that his said subjects nor any of them nor their executors nor administrators of any of them, nor any of thesayd bodies corporate nor any other persons bodies politic or corporate before named, or any of them, be nor shallbe sued, vexed or inquieted in their bodies, goods, lands or cattles, for any manner matter, cause, contempt, misdemcanor, forfeiture, trespass, offence, or any other thing suffered, done or committed against his highness, crown, dignity, prerogative, law or statutes, but only for such matters, causes and offences as be rehearsed in the exceptions and clauses of proviso, in this present act hereafter mentioned, in such manner & form, as in the same exceptions and clauses of proviso be mentioned and for none other, any statute or statutes, laws, customs, uses, or presidents heretofore had, made, or used to the contrary in any wise notwithstandding.  
AND also the kings highness of his bounteous liberality by th'authority of this present Parliament granteth and freely giveth to every of his said subjects and to every of the said bodies corporate, and other before rehearsed, & to every of them, all such lands, tenements, and hereditaments, goods, cattles, debts, fines, issues, profits, amerciaments, forfeitures, and sums of money by any of them forfeited, which to his highness doth or should belong or appertain, by reason of any offence, contempt, trespass, misdemeanour, matter, cause, or quarrel, suffered, done, or committed by them or any of them, which be not hereafter foreprised or excepted in this present act.  
AND that all and every the kings said subjects, and all and singular bodies corporate, and other before rehearsed, may by him or themselves, or by his or their deputy, or deputies, or by his or their attornay or attornays, according to the laws of this realm, plead, and minister this present act of free pardon for his or their discharge, of and for every thing that is by virtue of this present act pardoned, discharged, given, or granted without any fee or other thing in any wise paying to any person or persons for writing or entry of the judgement, or other cause, concerning such plea, writing, or entry, but only xii. d. to be paid to the officer or clerk that shall enter the plea, matter, or judgement, for the discharge of any the party so pleading the same, any statute or use to the contrary in any wise notwithstauding.  
AND furthermore the kings highness is pleased and contented that it be enacted by th'authority of this present parliament, that his said free pardon by the general words before rehearsed shallbe reputed, deemed, and judged, allowed and taken in all manner of courts and else where, aswell in the words and clauses of exceptions and forprises specified in this present act, as in all and singular other clauses, words and sentences mentioned and rehearsed in this his said free pardon, most beneficially and availably to all and singular his said subjects, bodies corporate and other before rehearsed, and to every of them in all things ambiguous or doubtful and most strongly in bar and discharge against his highness, his heirs, successors and executors in every thing, without any obstacle, challenge or other delay, whatsoever it shallbe to be made, pleaded, objected or alleged by the king our sovereign Lord, his heirs, successors, or executors, or by his or any of their general attorney or attorneys or by any person or persons for his highness, or any of his heirs, successors or executors.  
AND furthermore it is enacted by the king our sovereign Lord, by authority of this present Parliament, that if any officer or clerk of any his highness courts commonly called the kings Bench, Chauntery, & Common place, or of his Exchequier, or of any other officer or clerk of any other court with in this realm or in Wales or other his highness dominions above mentioned at any time after the tenth day of May next coming which shallbe in the year of our Lord God a M. ccccc. xlix. make out or write out▪ any manner writs or other process, or any extractes, summons, or other precepts whereby any of the said subjects or any of the said bodies corporate, or other before rehearsed, or any of them, shallbe in any wise arrested, attached, distrained, summoned, or otherwise vexed, inquieted, or grieved in his or their bodies, lands, tenements, goods or cattles, or in any of them, for or because of any manner of thing pardoned or discharged by virtue of this act of free pardon, he so offending & thereof lawfully condemned, shall yield and pay for the recompense thereof to the party so grieved or offended, triple damages, to be accounted as parcel of the damages and costs of the suit. And nevertheless all and singular such writs, process, extractes and precepts, so to be made for or upon any manner thing pardoned or discharged by this act of free pardon, shallbe utterly void and of none effect  
Except always and foreprised out of this general & free pardon, all and all manner prepensed and voluntary murders and poisonings: And except all selonyous, taking or stealing of any goods or cattles out of any Church, Chapel or dwelling house, and all and singular robberies & robbery of any person or persons in or near any high way committed, perpetrated or done.  
And also except and forprised out of this free pardon, all and all manner of piracies, and offences upon the sea, had, done, committed or perpetrated, sithen the first day of january in the first year of the reign ●f our 〈…〉 the king. And also all and all manner of punishments, Impetitions forfaittures, pains of death, judgements, & executions, for the premises before excepted, & for every of them.  
AND except and forprised out of this free pardon, all & all manner of dcreates & conceilementes, of all & singular moniers, and other officers, ministers, and workmen of or in any of the mints within any of the kings realms or dominions, perpetrated, done, or committed in or about the making coining or altering of any money current within this realm, or in any wise touching or concerning any accounts or books of any of the said officers or ministers or any of them, and all manner of Impetitions, punishments forfayctures and peines for the same.  
AND except and forprised out of this free pardon, all and singular sums & some of money grafited to late king Henry th'eight, by way or mean of subsidy, fifteen, benevolence, lone and contribution or by any of the same ways or means. And all deteiners, withholdinges and none payments, touching or concerning the same, and also all and all manner of accounts, and all actions, suits and demands touching or concerning any accounts, and all arrearages of account, and all debts, Impetitions, suits demaundens and executions by occasion or means of any accompe or for any account.  
AND also except all titles of actions of quare impedit, all ravyshmentes and withholding of the kings wards, and the withholding of any wards, lands or tenements, & the profits of the same lands and tenements, and all and every fine or fines for the single value or double value, of the marriage or marriages of any the kings wards, at any time grown to the king our sovereign lord, or to any of his noble progenitors.  
AND also except all homages & reliefs, and all rents services, rents charges, rents seck and tenths and charterages of every of them.  
AND also except and forprised out of this free pardon all and singular forfeitures, and all manner of penalties, sums of money and profits, whatsoever grown or dew by reason of any offence or act committed or done, contrary to any statute or statutes, or contrary to the common law extending above the some of ten pounds in money or value whereof any seizure was made, or any information given in the kings exchequer or any suet there commenced and now depending before the xii day of February in the year of our lord God M. ccccc.xlviij. and not yet determined, or whereof the kings highness or king Henry th'eight, by bill sealed with any of their seals before the xiiij day of March in the year of our lord God. M. ccccc.xlviij. have made any gift or assignment, to any of the servants of our sovereign lord the king, or king Henry th'eight, or to any other person or persons.  
AND except and forprised out of this free pardon, all and singular forfaytours and sums of money being dew to our sovereign lord the king, or to king Henry th'eight, by any penal statute or statutes, which be converted into the nature of debts by judgement or by the agreement of the offender.  
AND except and forprised out of this free pardon, all and all manner of debts, dew, and to be dew to our sovereign lord the king, or unto the late noble king of famous memory king Henry th'eight, and king Henry the seventh, or to any of them (other than such as are dew to our sovereign lord the king) upon any obligation or recognisance forfeited for none appearance, or for not keeping of the peace, or not being of good behaviour.  
AND also except all issues, fines, and amerciaments, afferid, taxed, set, extracted, or entered severally, or particularly touching & concerning any one person, or more persons jointly, extending to the some of twenty pounds or above. And that all and singular other fines, aswell fines pro licencia concordandi, as other fines for contempts or offences, set, or taxed, & also all issues, and amerciaments aswell real as other which severally or particularly extend not upon or concerning any one person or more persons jointly, to the some of twenty pounds, whcther they be totted or not totted, taken to the charge of any sheriff or shryefes', or not taken to his or their charge extreated or not extreated, whether they be turned into debt or not turned into debt, and not being levied nor received by any sheriff or shreive's, baylyefe, ministers, or other officers, shallbe fully, clercly and plainly pardoned and discharged against the king our sovereign lord his heirs and successors for ever by this present act of free pardon.  
AND 〈…〉 enacted by the authority aforesaid, that in care it shallbe objected to or against any sheriff or shreive's, or other accomptaunte or accomptauntes in the kings court of exchequer or in any other his courts, that any sheriff or shreive's, or other officers accomptaunte have received or taken any such fines issues or amerciaments, by this present act pardoned & acquitted, that then every such sheriff or shreive's or other accomptauntes shallbe discharged, released, pardoned, and acquitted thereof by his or their oath without any further trial in that behalf.  
PROVIDED always that this present act of free pardon, nor any thing therein contained in any wise extend to discharge, pardon, remit, or acquit any person or persons, for any manner of issues, fines or amerciaments of twenty pound or under whereof any shreive's hath here tofore accounted before the barons of the kings exchequer, or else where, and paid the same issues, fines, or amerciaments, upon his or their said account, determined to the kings use, and have his or their quietusest for the same.  
PROVIDED also and be it enacted by th'authority of this present parliament, that all and every person and persons which have tended to sew livereye out of the kings hands, or that aught to sew any lyucreye out of the kings hands, or that aught to sew any outer lemaine of any manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments whatsoever they be, shall sue and be bounden to sue, his and their livereie, lyvereiss, and outer lemain of his and their manors, lands, tenements, & hereditaments, as they ought or should have done, if this free pardon had never been granted, any article, clause, matter, or sentence, act or acts, thing or things▪ in this present act of free pardon, comprised or specified to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.  
AND except and forprised out of this free pardon, all and singular person and persons, being the said. xiv. day of March in the year of our lord God a M. ccccc. xlviij. prisoner or prisoners in the tour of London, or in the fleet, or which were in the said prisons, or any of them at any time sins the first day of Februarye, in the year of our lord God M. ccccc. xlviii. and are not discharged out of prison the said. xiiii. day of March: and also all and singular person & persons at any time before the eight day of March, in the said year of our lord God M. ccccc. xlviii. put to death or in execution by virtue of any manner of judgement against him or them given.  
AND except and forprised out of this free pardon, all and all manner of treasons done, committed or perpetrated by any person or persons in any of the parties of beyond the sea, or in Scotland, by any person or persons now being beyond the sea, or in Scotland (other than such treasons or petit treason as hath been committed, perpetrated or done by any person being beyond the sea, or in Scotland, that before the feast of the nativity of our lord God, that shallbe in the year of our lord God M. ccccc. xlix. shall come and make their return and repair into this realm of England.) And except all impetitions, punishments, forfaictours, pains of death, executions and judgements, for the said treasons.  
AND furthermore the kings majesty of his especial grace and clemency, is pleased and contented, that it be enacted and established by th'authority aforesaid, that all and singular person & persons being borne within this realm of England, or in any of the kings dominions, and now being beyond the sea, or in Scotland, which before the first day of March, in the year of our lord God M. ccccc. xlviii. did flee out of this realm of England, or any other of the kings dominions, for any high treason, petyt treason, misprision of treason, or for any felony, murder or other crime or offence by him or them in anywyse committed, done or perpetrated, shall by virtue of this free pardon be clearly discharged, acquitted and pardened of all and all manner of treasons, petit treasons, misprision of treason, and other offences, and crimes whatsoever, done, committed, or perpetrated before the said first day of March, in the said year of our lord God M. ccccc. xlviii. And of all manner of Impetitions, suits, penalties, forfaictours, and executions for the same: So that he or they do come, and make their return and repair into this realm of England, on thissyde the said feast of the nativity of our lord God M. ccccc. xlix.  
AND also our said sovereign lord the king, by virtue of this act, and by th'authority abovesaid, doth give authority and licence to all and every of the said persons and person, being beyond the sea or in Scotland, to return and repair into this realm of England, and other his dominions, before the same feast of the Nativity of our lord God M. ccccc. xlix.  
PROVIDED always and be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid that it shallbe leeful to all and every clerk and other officer of any of the kings courts without any forfeiture, loss or punishment for the same, to award and make writs of Capias Vtlagatum, at the suit of the party plaintiff, against any person or persons, being outlawed, in any action, to the intent to compel the persons or person so out lawed to make answer to the plaintiff or plaintiffs, at whose suit he or they were or was outlawed, and also that every person and persons now being outlawed, shallbe bounden to sue a writ of Scire facias against the party or parties at whose suit he or they were or was outlawed before such time as the persons or person so outlawed shall take any advantage of this free pardon concerning his or their outlawry.  
AND the king our sovereign lord is contented and pleased, to grant by th'authority aforesaid, that it shallbe lawful to all and singular archbishops and bishops of this his realm of England and Ways to deliver out of prison and set at liberty all and singular those persons being in prison in their custody, or in the custody of any of them as clerks or clerk convict or attainted, which be pardoned by this act of free pardon, without any further act or suit to be made for the allowance of this pardon or otherwise, any act of Parliament, law, usage, custom or other thing to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
PROVIDED always and be it enacted by authority aforesaid that this present act of free pardon or any thing therein contained, shall not in any wise extend to discharge or pardon any offence, pain, or penalty done, committed, or forfeited by force of any statute heretofore made against the decaiing of any house or houses of husbandry or converting of any land from tillage into pasture, otherwise or in any other manner, then to pardon and discharge all issues, profits, pains and penalties grown or due to the kings Majesty or to his late father of famous memory king Henry the eight before the last day of March in the year of our Lord God M. ccccc. xlix. or by reason of any such offence or offences, which issues, profits, pains and penalties are plainly and clearly before pardoned in and by this present act of free pardon, nor shall extend to give or make any licence or dispensation to any person or persons to hold or continued the same so decayed or converted contrary to the form of any such statute or statutes.  
¶ God save the King.   

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