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Penalty of counterfeiting certificate, as by 28 Elic. 3.
for perjury, as if in court of record at Dublin.
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IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person or persons shall at any time forge or counterfeit any such certificate, as is herein before mentioned and directed, and shall be thereof lawfully convicted, such person or persons shall incur and be liable to such pains and penalties as in and by an act of Parliament made in the twenty eighth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth of blessed memory, intituled, An act against forging evidences, &c. are imposed upon offenders therein mentioned for forging of any false deed or writing sealed, whereby any estate of free-hold or inheritance may be molested, troubled, or defeated; and if any person or persons shall at any time forswear him or herself before the said register or his deputy, or other person impowered by the said two former acts, or either of them, or this act, for taking affidavits in any of the cases aforesaid, and be thereof lawfully convicted, such person or persons shall incur and be liable to the same penalties, as if the same oath had been voluntarily and corruptly made in a cause depending in any of the courts of record in Dublin in a matter material in such cause.
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