1563: Elizabeth 1 c.17: An Act for the Punishment of the Vice of Buggery

[The statute of 25 H. 3. c. 6. whereby the committing of buggery with mankind or beast is made felony, revived.]

Where in the Parliament begun at London, the third day of November, in the one and twentieth year of the late king of most famous memory, King Henry the Eighth, and after by prorogation holden at Westminster, in the five and twentieth year of the reign of the said late king, there was one act and statute made, intituled ‘An Act for the Punishment of the Vice of Buggery,’ whereby the said detestable vice was made felony, as in the said statute more at large it doth and may appear.

[1 M. sess. 1. c. 1.]

(2) Forasmuch as the said statute, concerning the punishment of the said crime and offence of buggery, standeth at this present repealed and void, by virtue of the statute of repeal made in the first year of the reign of the late Queen Mary, sithens which repeal so had and made, divers evil-disposed persons have been the more bold to commit the said most horrible and detestable vice of buggery aforesaid, to the high displeasure of Almighty God:

II. Be it enacted, ordained, and established by the Queen, our sovereign lady, and by the assent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons of this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the said statute before mentioned, made in the five and twentieth year of the said late King Henry the Eighth, for the punishment of the said detestable vice of buggery, and every branch, clause, article, and sentence therein contained, shall from and after the first day of June next coming, be revived, and from thenceforth shall stand, remain, and be in full force, strength, and effect forever, in such manner, form, and condition as the same statute was at the day of the death of the said late King Henry the Eighth, the said statute of repeal made in the said first year of the said late Queen Mary, or any word general or special therein contained, or any other act or acts, thing or things to the contrary notwithstanding.

[2 & 3 Ed. 6. c. 29. Co. Pla. 391.]

Source: Pickering, Statutes At Large, vol. 6.