ITEM, It is statute, and ordained by our Sovereign Lord, with advice and consent of his dearest Regent, & three Estates of this present Parliament, that if any person or persons within this Realm, to Burgh or to land [in town or in country], shall commit the filthy vice of Fornication and is convict thereof, that the committers thereof, shall be punished in manner following: That is to say, for the first fault, as well the man, as the woman, shall pay the sum of forty pounds: Or then both he, and she, shall be imprisoned for the space of eight days, their food to be bread and small drink. And thereafter presented to the marketplace of the Town or Parish bare-headed, & there stand fastened, that they may not remove, for the space of two hours: as from ten hours to twelve hours at noon. For the second fault being convict, they shall pay the sum of an hundred marks, or then the forenamed days of their imprisonment shall be doubled, their food to be bread and water only. And in the end, to be presented to the said marketplace, and both the heads of the man & the woman to be shaven. And for the third fault, being convict thereof, shall pay one hundred pounds, Or else their above imprisonment to be tripled, their food to be bread and water only. And in the end, to be taken to the deepest and foulest pool, or water of the Town, or Parish, there to be thrice dunked, and thereafter banished [from] the said Town, or Parish forever. And from thenceforth, how oft that ever they be convicted, of the foresaid vice of Fornication, that so oft the said third penalty be execute upon them. And that the Provost and Baillies of each Burgh, the Justice general, and his deputes, or such {365} other persons, as shall please our said Sovereign Lord to give commission unto, be Judges to the persons suspected, & delated of Fornication: and being convicted, they shall lift and uptake the above written pecunial pains, of the persons responsal [solvent], & rather willing to pay the same, nor [than] to be demained [dealt with] in their persons. And that the said corporal pains of imprisonment, banishing, and others above specified, be execute upon all such persons, as either refuse to pay the pecunial pains, or that are not responsal [solvent] to pay the same. And that the same pecunial pains, which shall happen to be received, be surely kept in a close box, and be converted ad pios usus, in those parts, where the crime is committed, as it shall please our said Sovereign Lord, and his dearest Regent to command. And the receivers of the said pains, to be ready to give account thereof, whenever they shall be required thereunto.