Tonnage [tax per ton] and poundage [tax per pound] on goods
exported and imported shall be taken to provide safeguard of the
seas for such goods.
All persons must go to the established church on Sundays and holy
days. The penalty was at first forfeiture 12d. along with church
punishment, and later, 20 pounds per month and being bound by two
sureties for 200 pounds for good behavior, and if the 20 pounds is
not paid, then forfeiture of all goods to be applied to the amount
due and two-thirds of one's land.
These laws were directed against Catholicism, but were laxly
enforced as long as worship was not open and no one wore priestly
clothes:
The writing, preaching, or maintaining of any foreign spiritual
jurisdiction shall be punished by forfeiture of goods or, if the
goods are not worth 20 pounds, one year imprisonment, for the
first offence; forfeiture of goods and lands and the King's
protection, for the second offence; and the penalty for high
treason for the third offence.
Any person leading others to the Romish [Catholic] religion is
guilty of high treason. The penalty for saying mass is [2,667s.]
200 marks and one year's imprisonment. The penalty for hearing
mass is [1,333s.] 100 marks and one year's imprisonment. If one is
suspected of being a Jesuit or priest giving mass, one must answer
questions on examination or be imprisoned.
Papists [those who in conscience refused to take the oath of
supremacy of the Crown over the church] must stay in their place
of abode and not go five miles from it, unless licensed to do so
for business, or forfeit one's goods and profits of land for life.
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