XI.—And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That any 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 hereinafter mentioned, in case such person scruples the taking of an oath, and Penalty for refusing.upon refusal thereof such Justice of the Peace is hereby required to commit such person to prison without bail or mainprize, 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 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 all the aforesaid laws.
Quakers, how exempted.
XII.—And whereas there are certain other persons, Dissenters from the Church of England, who scruple the taking of any oath, be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, Altered as to Quakers by 8 Geo. I., cap. 6.That every such person shall make and subscribe the aforesaid Declaration; and also this Declaration of Fidelity following:
Declaration of Fidelity.
I, A. B., do sincerely promise, and solemnly declare, before 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 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, Pre-eminence, or Authority, Ecclesiastical or Spiritual, within this Realm.
And shall subscribe a Profession of their Christian Belief in these words:
Profession.
I, A. B., profess Faith in God the Father, and in Jesus 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 Declaration 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 5th year of the reign of the late Queen Elizabeth, entituled, 5 Eliz., cap. 1.An Act for the Assurance of the Queen’s 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 13th and 14th years of the reign of King Charles II., entituled, 13 and 14 Car. II., cap. 1.An Act for preventing mischiefs that may arise by certain persons called Quakers refusing to take lawful oaths, and enjoy all the other Benefits, Privileges, and Advantages, under the like Limitations, Provisions, and Conditions, which any other Dissenters should or ought to enjoy by virtue of this Act.
How purged after Refusal of the Oaths.