W. & M. c. 18. exempt from of PART II. and make and subscribe the declaration aforesaid, in manner CLASS aforesaid, every such person shall enjoy all the privileges, No.1. benefits, and advantages, which any other Dissenting MinStat. 1 ister, as aforesaid, might have or enjoy by virtue of this Act. XI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every teacher or preacher in holy Orders, or Teachers pretended holy Orders, that is a minister, preacher, or teacher of a congregation, that shall take the oaths herein required, and make and subscribe the declaration aforesaid, and also subscribe such of the aforesaid Articles of the Church of England as are required by this Act in manner aforesaid, shall be thenceforth exempted from serving upon any jury, or from being chosen or appointed to bear the office of Church-warden, Overseer of the poor, or any other parochial or ward office, or other office in any hundred of any shire, city, town, parish, division, or wapentake. fices. Justice of tender the oaths, &c. refusing. XII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforePeace may said, That every Justice of the Peace may at any time hereafter require any person, that goes to any meeting for exercise of religion, to make and subscribe the declaration aforesaid, and also to take the said oaths or declaration of fidelity herein-after mentioned, in case such person scruples Penalty for the taking of an oath; and upon refusal thereof, such Justice of the Peace is hereby required to commit such person to prison without bail or mainprise, and to certify the name of such person to the next General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be held for that county, city, town, part, or division, where such person then resides; and if such person so committed shall upon a second tender at the General or Quarter Sessions refuse to make and subscribe the declaration aforesaid, such person refusing shall be then and there recorded, and he shall be taken thenceforth to all intents and purposes for a Popish recusant convict, and suffer accordingly, and incur all the penalties and forfeitures of of all the aforesaid laws. Quakers how ex empted. XIII. And whereas there are certain other persons, dissenters from the Church of England, who scruple the taking Altered as of any oath; be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That to Quakers every such person shall make and subscribe the aforesaid by Geo. declaration, and also this declaration of fidelity following, 1. c. 6. Declara lity. viz. I A. B. do sincerely promise and solemnly declare before tion of fide- God and the world, that I will be true and faithful to King William and Queen Mary; and I do solemnly profess and declare, That I do from my heart abhor, detest, and renounce, as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine See 2 Bur. 1002. and position, That princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murthered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever. And I do declare, that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate, hath, or ought to have, any power, jurisdiction, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm. And shall subscribe a profession of their Christian belief in these words: PART II. CLASS No. 1. Stat. 1 W. & M. c. 18. I A. B. profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Profession. Christ his eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, one God blessed for evermore; and do acknowledge the holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine inspiration. Which declarations and subscription shall be made and entered of record at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the county, city, or place where every such person shall then reside. And every such person that shall make and subscribe the two declarations and profession aforesaid, being thereunto required, shall be exempted from all the pains and penalties of all and every the afore-mentioned Statutes made against Popish recusants, or Protestant Nonconformists, and also from the penalties of an Act made in the fifth year of the reign of the late Queen Elizabeth, intituled An Act for the Assurance of the Queen's 5 Eliz. c. 1. Royal Power over all Estates and Subjects within her Dominions, for or by reason of such persons not taking or refusing to take the oath mentioned in the said Act; and also from the penalties of an Act made in the thirteenth and fourteenth years of the reign of King Charles the Second, intituled An Act for preventing Mischiefs that may 13 & 14 arise by certain Persons called Quakers, refusing to take Car. 2. c. 1 lawful Oaths; and enjoy all other the benefits, privileges, Further and advantages, under the like limitations, provisoes, and provisions conditions, which any other Dissenters shall or ought to en- concerning joy by virtue of this Act. Quakers, 7 & 8 W. 3. c. 34. 1 Geo. 1. stat. 1. c. 6. 8 Geo. 1. c. 6. 12 Geo. 2. c. 13. sect. 8. and 22 Geo. 2. c. 46. oaths. XIV. Provided always, and be it enacted by the author- How purgity aforesaid, That in case any person shall refuse to take ed after rethe said oaths, when tendered to them, which every Justice fusal of the of the Peace is hereby impowered to do, such person shall not be admitted to make and subscribe the two declarations aforesaid, though required thereunto either before any Justice of the Peace, or at the General or Quarter Sessions, before or after any conviction of Popish recusancy, as afore III. No. 1. Stat. 1 PART II. said, unless such person can, within thirty-one days after CLASS such tender of the declarations to him, produce two sufficient Protestant witnesses, to testify upon oath, that they believe him to be a Protestant Dissenter, or a certificate W. & M. under the hands of four Protestants, who are conformable to the Church of England, or have taken the oaths and subscribed the declaration above-mentioned, and shall also produce a certificate under the hands and seals of six or more sufficient men of the congregation to which he belongs, owning him for one of them. c. 18. Laws for vice in force. XV. Provided also, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That until such certificate, under the hands of six of his congregation, as aforesaid, be produced, and two Protestant witnesses come to attest his being a Protestant Dissenter, or a certificate under the hands of four Protestants as aforesaid, be produced, the Justice of the Peace shall, and hereby is required to take a recognizance with two sureties in the penal sum of fifty pounds, to be levied of his goods and chattels, lands, and tenements, to the use of the King's and Queen's Majesties, their heirs and successors, for his producing the same; and if he cannot give such security, to commit him to prison, there to remain until he has produced such certificates, or two witnesses, as aforesaid. XVI. Provided always, and it is the true intent and Divine ser- meaning of this Act, That all the laws made and provided for the frequenting of Divine service on the Lord's Day, commonly called Sunday, shall be still in force, and executed against all persons that offend against the said laws, except such persons come to some congregation or assembly of religious worship, allowed or permitted by this Act. ed. Papists, XVII. Provided always, and be it further enacted by &c. except- the authority aforesaid, That neither this Act, nor any clause, article, or thing herein contained, shall extend or be construed to extend to give any ease, benefit, or advantage to any Papist or Popish recusant whatsoever, or any person that shall deny in his preaching or writing the doctrine of the blessed Trinity, as it is declared in the aforesaid Articles of Religiona. Disturbers XVIII. Provided always, and be it enacted by the auof religious thority aforesaid, That if any person or persons, at any worship time or times after the tenth day of June, do and shall willnished. ingly and of purpose, maliciously or contemptuously come See 1 Geo. into any cathedral or parish church, chapel, or other con how pu 1. stat. 2. c. 5. sect. 4. Repealed by 53 Geo. 3. c. 160. Part II. Class I. No. 2. p. 363. CLASS Stat. 1 c. 18. gregation permitted by this Act, and disquiet or disturb PART II. the same, or misuse any preacher or teacher, such person or persons, upon proof thereof before any Justice of Peace, No. 1. by two or more sufficient witnesses, shall find two sureties to be bound by recognizance in the penal sum of fifty W. & M. pounds, and in default of such sureties shall be committed to prison, there to remain till the next General or Quarter Sessions; and upon conviction of the said offence at the said General or Quarter Sessions, shall suffer the pain and penalty of twenty pounds, to the use of the King's and Queen's Majesties, their heirs and successors. be certified. XIX. Provided always, That no congregation or assem- Place for bly for religious worship shall be permitted or allowed by worship to this Act, until the place of such meeting shall be certified See 4 Bur. to the Bishop of the diocese, or to the Archdeacon of that 1991. archdeaconry, or to the Justices of the Peace at the General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the county, city, or place in which such meeting shall be held and registered in the said Bishop's or Archdeacon's Court respectively, or recorded at the said General or Quarter Sessions; the Register or Clerk of the Peace whereof respectively is hereby required to register the same, and to give certificate thereof to such person as shall demand the same, for which there shall be no greater fee nor reward taken than the sum of sixpence. Anno 19 GEO. III. Cap. 44. An Act for the further Relief of Protestant Dissenting WHEREAS by an Act made in the first year of the reign of King William and Queen Mary, intituled An Act for exempting their Majesties' Protestant Subjects, dissenting from the Church of England, from the Penalties of certain Laws, persons dissenting from the Church of England, in holy Orders, or pretended holy Orders, or pretending to holy Orders, and preachers or teachers of any congregation of dissenting Protestants, are required, in order to be intitled to certain exemptions, benefits, privileges, and advantages, to declare their approbation of, and to subscribe, the Articles of Religion mentioned in the Statute made in the thirteenth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth (except as in the said Act, made in the first year of the reign of King William and Queen Mary, is excepted :) and No. 2. III. No. 2. Stat. 19 G. 3. c. 44. Protestant who shall take the PART II. whereas many such persons scruple to declare their approCLASS bation of, and to subscribe, the said Articles not excepted as aforesaid: for giving ease to such scrupulous persons in the exercise of religion, may it please your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Dissenting Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this preMinisters, sent Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That every person dissenting from the Church of oaths and England, in holy Orders, or pretended holy Orders, or presubscribe tending to holy Orders, being a preacher or teacher of any congregation of dissenting Protestants, who, if he scruple to against Po- declare and subscribe as aforesaid, shall take the oaths, and make and subscribe the declaration against Popery, required by the said Act, in the first year of the reign of King Wil liam and Queen Mary, to be taken, made, and subscribed by Protestant Dissenting Ministers, and shall also make and subscribe a declaration in the words following; videlicet, the decla ration pery re quired by the said Act, and shall also make and subscribe the following declaration, I A. B. do solemnly declare, in the presence of Almighty God, that I am a Christian and a Protestant, and as such, that I believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Tes tament, as commonly received among Protestant Churches, do contain the revealed will of God; and that I do receive the same as the rule of my doctrine and practice; shall be in- shall be, and every such person is hereby declared to be, titled to intitled to all the exemptions, benefits, privileges, and adall the pri- vantages, granted to Protestant Dissenting Ministers by the vileges granted by said Act, made in the first year of the reign of King Wilthe Tolera- liam and Queen Mary; and by an Act, made in the tenth year of the reign of Queen Anne, intituled An Act for preand by 10 Annæ for serving the Protestant Religion, by better securing the Church confirming of England, as by Law established; and for confirming the the same, Toleration granted to Protestant Dissenters by an Act, in tion Act, &c. tituled An Act for exempting their Majesties' Protestant Subjects, dissenting from the Church of England, from the Penalties of certain Laws; and for supplying the Defects thereof; and for the further securing the Protestant Succession, by requiring the Practisers of the Law in North Britain to take the Oaths and subscribe the Declaration therein mentioned; and the Justices of the Peace at the General Session of the Peace to be holden for the county or place where any Protestant Dissenting Minister shall live, are hereby required to tender and administer the said last-mentioned declaration to such Minister, upon his offering himself to make and subscribe the same, and thereof to keep a |