Provided always, and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,
That if any person or persons do, or shall, with force and arms,
wilfully and knowingly oppose, obstruct, or in any manner wilfully and
knowingly lett, hinder, or hurt any person or persons that shall begin
to proclaim, or go to proclaim according to the proclamation hereby
directed to be made, whereby such proclamation shall not be made, that
then every such apposing, obstructing, letting, hindering or hurting
such person or persons, so beginning or going to make such
proclamation, as aforesaid, 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; and that
also every such person or persons so being unlawfully, riotously and
tumultuously assembled, to the number of twelve, as aforesaid, or more,
to whom proclamation should or ought to have been made if the same had
not been hindred, as aforesaid, shall likewise, in case they or any of
them, to the number of twelve or more, shall continue together, and not
disperse themselves within one hour after such lett or hindrance so
made, having knowledge of such lett or hindrance so made, shall be
adjudged felons, and shall suffer death as in case of felony, without
benefit of clergy.