According to the Act,*
"Whatsoever person or persons within this Province and the Islands
thereunto belonging, shall from henceforth blaspheme God, that is curse
him, or deny our Saviour Jesus Christ to bee the sonne of God, or shall
deny the holy Trinity, . . . or the Godhead of any of the said three
persons of the Trinity, or the unity of the Godhead, or shall use or utter
any reproachful speeches, words or language concerning the said Holy
Trinity, or any of the said three persons thereof, shall be punished with
death and confiscation or forfeiture of all his or her lands and goods to
the Lord Proprietary and his heires . . . . Whatsoever person or persons
shall from henceforth use or utter any reproachfull words, or speeches,
concerning the blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of our Saviour, or the holy
Apostles or Evangelists, or any of them, shall in such case for the first
offence forfeit to the said Lord Proprietary and his heires the sum of five
pound sterling . . . . Whatsoever person shall henceforth upon any occasion
. . . declare, call, or denominate any person or persons whatsoever
inhabiting, residing, traffiqueing, trading or comerceing within this
Province, or within any of the Ports, Harbors, Creeks or Havens to the same
belonging, an heritick, Scismatick, Idolator, puritan, Independant,
Presbiterian, popish priest, Jesuite, Jesuited papist, Lutheran, Calvenist,
Anabaptist, Brownist, Antinomian, Barrowist, Roundhead, Sepatist, or any
other name or term in a reproachful manner relating to matter of Religion,
shall for every such Offence forfeit .
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