The Act enshrined the blasphemy offence into statute. It legislated that anyone who should rail upon and curse God or the Trinity,[1] even if 'distracted', should be punished. The punishment was the death penalty.
^Levy, Leonard Williams (1995). Blasphemy: Verbal Offense Against the Sacred, from Moses to Salman Rushdie. UNC Press Books. pp. 231–232. ISBN978-0-8078-4515-8.
^"Act against blasphemy". www.rps.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
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