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5 Eliz. 9. Eng. 3 G. 2. 4. [Ir.].
Persons procuring witnesses to commit perjury in any suit by writ, action, bill, complaint, or information, in any court, or who suborne witnesses to testify in perpetuam rei memoriam.
After conviction forfeit 40l.
Or, if they have not to that value, imprisonment for six months, and pillory for one hour.
And not to be received as witnesses in any courts till judgment reversed.
Upon reversal, to recover damages against the persons procuring said judgment by action on the case.
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FORASMUCH as this realm of Ireland is greatly troubled and hindered by reason of wilfull perjurie daily committed notwithstanding that many good lawes have been made and ordeyned for redress thereof, and for that great dangers and perilles are daily like to fall, if some further remedies shall not be speedily provided for prevention thereof; be it therefore enacted by our Sovereign Lady the Queen, with the assent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that all and every person and persons, which at any time after the end of this present Parliament, shall unlawfully or corruptly procure any witness or witnesses by letters, rewardes, promisses, or by any other sinister or unlawful labour or meanes whatsoever, to commit any wilful or corrupt perjurie, in any matter or cause whatsoever now depending, or that hereafter shall depend in suite and variaunce, by any writ, action, bill, complaint or information, in any wise concerning any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any goods, chattles, debts, damages, or any other cause of action whatsoever, in any of her Majesties courtes of castle chamber, chauncerie, chief place courte of common plees, exchequer, or any other court or courts, before any judge, justicer, president, governour, commissioners, mayor, sheriffes, senescalles, or any other officers whatsoever, as well within liberties as without, in this realm of Ireland, or shall likewise, unlawfully or corruptly, procure or soborne any witness or witnesses, which shall from and after the end of this present Parliament, be sworn to testifie in perpetuam rei memoriam: that then everie such offendor and offendors shall, for his or their said offence, being thereof lawfully convicted or attainted, lose and forfeite the summe of fortie poundes: and if it fortune any such offendour or offendours, so being convicted or attainted, as aforesaid, not to have any goods or chattels, lands or tenements, to the value of fortie pounds; that then everie such person, so being convicted or attainted of any offences aforesaid, shall, for his or their said offence, suffer imprisonment by the space of one half year without bayle or mayneprise, and to stand upon the pillory by the space of one whole hour, in some market towne next adjoyning to the place where the offence was committed, in open market there, or in the market towne it selfe where the offence was committed: [Rep., Stat. Law Rev. (I.) Act, 1878] And that no person or persons being so convicted or attainted, to be from thenceforth received as a witnesse, to be deposed or sworn in any court of record, or within any other court or courts within this realm of Ireland, untill such time as the judgment given against such person or persons shall be reversed by attaint or otherwise. And that upon every such reversall, the parties grieved, to recover his or their damages against all and every such person and persons, as did procure the sayd judgment, so reversed, to be first given against them or any of them, by action or actions, to be sued upon his or their case or cases, according to the course of the common lawes of this realm.
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