And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any
persons unlawfully, riotously and tumultuously assembled together, to
the disturbance of the publick peace, shall unlawfully, and with force
demolish or pull down, or begin to demolish or pull down any church or
chapel, or any building for religious worship certified and registred
according to the statute made in the first year of the reign of the
late King _William_ and Queen _Mary_, intituled, _An act for exempting
their Majesty's protestant subjects dissenting from the church of_
England _from the penalties of certain laws_, or any dwelling-house,
barn, stable, or other out-house, that then every such demolishing, or
pulling down, or beginning to demolish, or pull down, shall be adjudged
felony without benefit of clergy, and the offenders therein shall be
adjudged felons, and shall suffer death as in case of felony, without
benefit of clergy.