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Cinque Ports, and other privileged places, and the islands
of Jersey and Guernsey. (9) That no inhabitant of Engfand
 (except persons contracting, or convicts praying, to be
transported, or having committed some capital offence in
the place to which they are sent) shall be sent prisoner to
Scotland, Ireland, Jersey, Guernsey, Tangier,* or any places
beyond the seas within or without the King’s dominions,
on pain that the party committing, his advisers, aiders, and
assistants, shall forfeit to the party aggrieved a sum not
less than £500, to be recovered with treble costs ; shall be
disabled to bear any office of trust or profit ; shall incur the
penalties of praemunive ; and shall be incapable of receiving
the King’s pardon for any of the said forfeitures, losses, or
disabilities. t

The fortress of Tangier in Africa (together with the island of
Bombay) was acquired by Charles I1., in 1662, as a portion with his
wife Katherine of Braganza, It was abandoned in 1683.
4+ 21 Car. IL. c. 2; and see Stephen, Comm. (5th ed.) iv, 25.