An act to repeal the statute made in the fifth year of  the reign of  King James the First, entitled, An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft and dealing with evil and wicked Spirits, except so much thereof  as repeals an act of  the fifth year of  the reign of  Queen Elizabeth, Against Conjurations, Enchantments and Witchcrafts, and to repeal an act passed in the Parliament of  Scotland in the
ninth Parliament of  Queen Mary, entitled, Anentis Witchcrafts, and for punishing such persons as pretend to exercise or use any kind of  witchcraft, sorcery, enchantment or conjuration.  Be it enacted by the King’s most excellent majesty,
by and with the advice and consent of  the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in the present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of  the same,
that the statute made in the fifth year of  the reign of  King James the Fifth, entitled, An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft and dealing with evil and wicked Spirits,
shall, from the twenty fourth day of  June next, be repealed and utterly void and of no effect, (except so much thereof  as repeals the statute made in the fifth year of  the reign of  Queen Elizabeth, entitled, Against Conjurations, Enchantments and Witchcrafts.)  II.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that from and after the twenty fourth day of  June, the act passed in the Parliament of  Scotland in the ninth Parliament of  Queen Mary, entitled, Anentis Witchcrafts, shall be and is hereby repealed.  III.

And be it further enacted, that from and after the said twenty fourt day of  June,
no prosecution, suit or proceeding shall be commenced or carried on against any person or persons for witchcraft, sorcery, enchantment or conjuration, or for charging another with any such offence, in any court whatsoever in Great Britain.
IV.

And for the more effectual preventing and punishing any pretences to such acts or powers as are before mentioned, whereby ignorant persons are frequently deluded and defrauded;  be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that any person shall, from and after the said twenty fourth day of  June, pretend to exercise or use any kind of  witchcraft, sorcery, enchantment or conjuration, or undertake to tell fortunes, or pretend from his or her skill or knowledge in any occult or crafty science to discover where or in what manner any goods or chattels, supposed to have been stolen or lost, may be found;  every person so offending, being thereof lawfully convicted on indictment or information in that part of  Great Britain called England, or on indictment or libel in that part of  Great Britain called Scotland, shall for every such offense suffer imprisonment by the space of  one whole year without bail or main prize, and once in every quarter of  the said year in some market town of  the proper county upon the market day, there stand openly on the pillory by the space of one hour, and also shall  (if  the court by which such judgment shall be given shall think it fit)  be obliged to give sureties for his or her good behaviour,
in such sum and for such time as the said court shall judge proper according to the circumstances of  the offense, and in such case shall be further imprisoned until such sureties shall be given.