And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if after the
said last day of _July_ one thousand seven hundred and fifteen, any
such church or chapel, or any such building for religious worship, or
any such dwelling-house, barn, stable, or other out-house, shall be
demolished or pulled down wholly, or in part, by any persons so
unlawfully, riotously and tumultuously assembled, that then, in case
such church, chapel, building for religious worship, dwelling-house,
barn, stable, or out-house, shall be out of any city or town, that is
either a county of itself, or is not within any hundred, that then the
inhabitants of the hundred in which such damage shall be done, shall be
liable to yield damages to the person or persons injured and damnified
by such demolishing or pulling down wholly or in part; and such damages
shall and may be recovered by action to be brought in any of his
Majesty's courts of record at _Westminster_, (wherein no effoin,
protection or wager of law, or any imparlance shall be allowed) by the
person or persons damnified thereby, against any two or more of the
inhabitants of such hundred, such action for damages to any church or
chapel to be brought in the name of the rector, vicar or curate of such
church or chapel that shall be so damnified, in trust for applying the
damages to be recovered in rebuilding or repairing such church or
chapel; and that judgment being given for the plaintiff or plaintiffs
in such action, the damages so to be recovered shall, at the request of
such plaintiff or plaintiffs, his or their executors or administrators,
be raised and levied on the inhabitants of such hundred, and paid to
such plaintiff or plaintiffs, in such manner and form, and by such ways
and means, as are provided by the statute made in the seven and
twentieth year of the reign of Queen _Elizabeth_, for reimbursing the
person or persons on whom any money recovered against any hundred by
any party robbed, shall be levied: and in case any such church, chapel,
building for religious worship, dwelling-house, barn, stable, or
out-house so damnified, shall be in any city or town that is either a
county of itself, or is not within any hundred, that then such damages
shall and may be recovered by action to be brought in manner aforesaid
(where no effoin, protection or wager of law, or any imparlance shall
be allowed) against two or more inhabitants of such city or town; and
judgment being given for the plaintiff or plaintiffs in such action,
the damages so to be recovered shall, at the request of such plaintiff
or plaintiffs, his or their executors or administrators, made to the
justices of the peace of such city or town at any quarter-sessions to
be holden for the said city or town, be raised and levied on the
inhabitants of such city or town, and paid to such plaintiff or
plaintiffs, in such manner and form, and by such ways and means, as are
provided by the said statute made in the seven and twentieth year of
the reign of Queen _Elizabeth_, for reimbursing the person or persons
on whom any money recovered against any hundred by any party robbed,
shall be levied.