No book or pamphlet could be printed unless the text
was first seen, examined, and allowed by the Archbishop of
Canterbury or the Bishop of London. Book publishers in violation
were to be imprisoned for six months and banned from printing;
their equipment was to be destroyed. Wardens were authorized to
search wherever "they shall have reasonable cause of suspicion",
and to seize all such books and pamphlets printed. But printers
continued to print unlicensed material.
- Judicial Procedure -
Jurors shall be selected from those people who have at least 80s.
annual income instead of 40s. because sheriffs have been taking
bribes by the most able and sufficient freeholders to be spared at
home and the poorer and simpler people, who are least able to
discern the causes in question, and most unable to bear the
charges of appearance and attendance in such cases have been the
jurors. Also there had been inflation.
Defendants sued or informed against upon penal statutes may appear
by attorney so that they may avoid the inconvenience of traveling
a long distance to attend and put to bail.
No only sheriffs, but their employees who impanel juries or
execute process in the courts shall take an oath of office.
A hundred shall answer for any robbery therein only if there has
been negligence or fault in pursuit of the robber after a hue and
cry is made because the past law has been too harsh and required
payment for offenses from people unable to pay who have done
everything reasonable to catch the robber.
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