take  the  faid  oaths  or  facrament  as   aforefaid,    within  the
times    and    in    the    places    aforefaid,    and     in    the    man-
ner aforefaid,  and   yet  after  fuch  hegleft   or  refiifal,  ffiould
execute  any  of  the  faid  offices  or  employments  cifter  the  faid
times    expired   in  which  he  or  they  ought    to    have  taken
'the  ftme,    and   being  thereupon  lawfully  convifted  by    or
upon    any   information,  prefentment  or  indiftment,  in  any
of  the  courts  of  the  lord  the  king  at  Weftminfter,  or  at  the
affzes,  every  fuch  perfon   and  perfons    ffiould  be  difabled
thenceforth  to  fue  any  aftion,  bill,  plaint  or  infcJrmation  in
courfe  of  law  or  to  profecute  any  luit  in  any  court  of  equity,
or  to  be  guardian  of  any  child,  or  executor  or  adminiltrator
of  any  pei-fon,  or  capable  of  an  legacy  or  deed  of  gift,  or  to
bear  any  office  within  this  realm  ot  England,  the  dominon  of
Wales,  or  thetov/nof  Berwick  ^jpon  the  Tweed,  and  fhould
■forfeit   the   fum  of  five  hundred  pounds  to  be  recovered  by
by  him   or  them  who  -.\ould  fue  for  the  fame,  to  be  profe-
CMted    by    any  aftion   of  debt,  fuit,  bill,    plaint    or    infor-
hiation  in  any  of  his  majefty's  courts  at  Weftminfter,  in  which
no  efibign,  proteftion  or  wager  of  law   fhouid  be  allowed  as
by   the  faid  aft   among  other  things  in  the  fame  contained
Defendant    more  fully  appears. And  the  faid  John  Read,  further  faith,
faith  he  was  tjhat  he  was  admitted  into  the  offiiCe   of  ftierifFbf  the  county
^''"^'''J^''      (')f  Heftlord   aforefaid,    after  the  firft   dav  of  the    term    of
if«- after     ^^^^er,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord,   ^673,  in  the  aft  of  parlia-
thc'i(lday    itient  lail  mentioned  fpecified,  to  wit,  on  the  faid  twelfth  day
of  Faftcr      of  November  in  the  twenty-fifth  year  of  the  reign  of  the  faid
term,  1673. ]ord  the  now  king  aforefaid,  and   afterwards,  to  vv'it,  on  thri
twelfth  d;'y  of  January  in  the  twenty  fifth  year  of  the  reign
of  the   faid  lord  the  now  king  aforefaid,  the  quarter  feffiona
of  peace  wers  held  lor  the  faid  county  at  the  town  of  Hert-'
lord,  being  the  next  quarter  feffions  held  for  the  faid  county
after  his  admittance  into  the  ofhce  of  flierifF  of  the  county
aforefaid. And  afterwards,  to  wit  on  tht  twenty-third  day
of  January  then  next  enfuing,  the  term  of  St. 