The Journals of Parliaments, Journal 22 · Part 1
The particulars of the first Bill exhibited against Recusants.
1. THE party so Indicted and Convicted shall forfeit all his Goods and Chattles, which he hath in his own right, or in the right of his Wife.
2. Item, He shall forfeit two parts of his Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, if he be born under her Highness Allegiance, of the Age of sixteen years.
3. Item, A Feme Covert shall lose her Dower or Jointure, which she might have by her Baron.
4. Item, If a Man match with an Inheritrix being a Recusant, he shall lose two parts of those Lands to the Queen. Neither of them shall Administrate to any Man.
5. Item, Such a party being a Recusant shall be disabled to make any purchase or sale of Lands.
6. Item, He shall be disinabled either to take or make any Lease to the use of himself, or to the use of his Wife.
7. Item, A Recusant shall forfeit for keeping any such Recusant Person in his House either Servant or Stranger ten pound every Month, being at one time so long in his House, or at several times in the year.
8. Item, He shall be barred to bear any Office in the Land, or to practise as Councellor, Doctor, Sollicitor, Proctor, Attorney or Advocate to the Law.
9. Item, He shall have his Children taken from him if they be above the Age of seven years, which are to be disposed of by the Lords of the Council, or the Ordinary, or the Judges of Assizes for the time being, and their maintenance to be raised out of a third part of such a Recusants Living.
10. Item, He shall be disinabled to make any bargain or sale of any of his Goods or Chattles.
11. Item, If he be a Copyholder, he shall forfeit his Copyhold during his Life, whereof two parts is to go to the Queen, and the third to the Lord.
12. Item, If any person be Indicted for Recusancy of Malice, he shall have his remedy against the party at the Common Law.
13. Item, If any person having been a Recusant shall at any time recant, he shall make his submission in the Parish Church where he dwelleth, acknowledging the Queens Proceedings to be just, and detesting the Church of Rome: which he shall also do in open Court before the Judges of Assize.
14. Item, If any such person after such Recantation fall into relapse, he shall lose the benefit of the former Recantation for ever.
Lastly, There is a Proviso, that those that have already bought Lands of any that are or shall be Indicted for a Recusant, the Bargain shall be as good and stand in effect, as if this had never been made.