[1594/4/14]¹

Against wilful hearers of mass

Our sovereign lord, with advice of his estates of parliament, statutes and ordains that in all time coming all wilful hearers of mass and concealers of the same be executed to the death, and their goods and gear escheated to his highness's use so soon as they shall be found guilty and convicted thereof or declared fugitive for the same before the justice general or his deputes or the lords of his majesty's privy council.