...extends incidentally the protection of the law to bodies of Dissenters, by enacting, That if any persons unlawfully, riotously, and tumultuously assembled together, to the disturbance of the public peace, shall unlawfully, and with force demolish or pull down or begin to demolish or pull down any church...

...commonly called •*-* the riot act, it is made felony without benefit of clergy, " for any persons unlawfully, riotously, and tumultuously, assembled together, to the disturbance of the public peace, unlawfully, and with force, to demolish or pull down, or begin to demolish or pull down, any church...

...lord the king; and that afterfa) By stat. 1 Geo. 1. stat. 2. c. 5. s. 1. it is enacted, " that ifany persons, to the number of twelve or more, being unlawfully, riotously, and tumultnously assembled together, to the disturbance of the public peace, at any time after the last...

...of the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that if any persons, to the number of twelve or more, being unlawfully,...together, to the disturbance of the public peace, at any time after the last day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifteen,...

...of his people." What is enacted ? — That these crimes should be high treason ?— No, that if any persons, to the number of. twelve, or more, being....together, to the disturbance of the public peace, and being required by any one or more Justice, or the Sheriff of the County, or the Mayor of any City,...

...on the 27th day of July, 1791, at th<..iresc«pe. Sheffield, in the county of York, divers persons unlawfully, riotously, and tumultuously assembled...together, to the disturbance of the public peace ; and being so assembled, then and there unlawfully and feloniously, with force (the said force then and...

...F. <?. ft. &c. togethervrith divers other persons, to the nurnber of twelw and more, on &c. at - , being unlawfully, riotously and tumultuously assembled together to the disturbance of the pubiicjpeace, and beifij then and there required and commanded by SP E«J. one of His Majesty's justices...

...indictment is framed on the 1 Geo. I. St. 2. c. 5. called "The Riot Act." That statute enacts, that if any persons to the number of twelve, or more, being unlawfully,...together to the disturbance of the public peace, and being required or commanded by any one or more justice or justices of the peace, or by the sheriff...

...had the ble together to the disturbance of the public peace of our said lord the 'king, and being so unlawfully, riotously, and tumultuously assembled together, to the disturbance of the public peace, then and there unlawfully, and with force feloniously did begin to demolish and pull down * the dwelling...

...Tumults, and for the more speedy and effectual punishing the Offenders therein," enacts, that if any persons to the Number of Twelve or more being unlawfully, riotously, and tuinultuously assembled together, to the Disturbance of the public Peace, at any time after the last...