[Sidenote: The several Laws against Dissenters repealed.] I.--Be it enacted by the King’s and Queen’s most excellent Majesties, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That neither the Statute made in the 23^{rd} year of the reign of the late Queen Elizabeth, entituled, [Sidenote: 23 Eliz., cap. 1.] _An Act to retain the Queen’s Majesty’s Subjects in their due obedience_; nor the Statute made in the 29^{th} year of the said Queen, entituled, [Sidenote: 29 Eliz., cap. 6.] _An Act for the more speedy and due execution of certain branches of the Statute made in the 23^{rd} year of the Queen’s Majesty’s reign_, viz., the aforesaid Act; nor that branch or clause of a Statute made in the 1^{st} year of the reign of the said Queen, entituled, [Sidenote: 29 Eliz., cap. 2, f 14.] _An Act for the Uniformity of Common Prayer and service in the Church, and administration of the Sacraments_; whereby all persons, having no lawful or reasonable excuse to be absent, are required to resort to their Parish Church or Chapel, or some usual place where the Common Prayer shall be used, upon pain of punishment by the censures of the Church; and also, upon pain, that every person so offending shall forfeit for every such offence twelve pence. Nor the Statute made in the 3^{rd} year of the reign of the late King James the First, entituled, [Sidenote: 3 Jac. I., cap. 4.] _An Act for the better discovering and repressing Popish recusants_. Nor that other Statute, made in the same year, entituled, [Sidenote: 3 Jac. I., cap. 5.] _An Act to prevent and avoid dangers which may grow by Popish Recusants_. Nor any other Law or Statute of this realm made against Papists or Popish recusants, [Sidenote: Exception.] except the Statute made in the 25^{th} year of King Charles II., entituled, [Sidenote: 25 Car. II., cap. 2.] _An Act for preventing dangers which may happen from Popish recusants_. And except also the Statute made in the 30^{th} year of the said King Charles II., entituled, [Sidenote: 30 Car. II., Stat. 2d, cap. 1.] _An Act for the more effectual preserving the King’s person and Government, by disabling Papists from sitting in either House of Parliament_, shall be construed to extend to any person or persons dissenting from the Church of England, that shall take the oaths mentioned in a Statute made this present Parliament, entituled, [Sidenote: _Supra_, cap. 1.] _An Act for removing and preventing all questions and disputes concerning the assembling and sitting of this present Parliament_, and shall make and subscribe the Declaration mentioned in a Statute made in the 30^{th} year of the reign of King Charles II., entituled, [Sidenote: Car. II., Stat. 2d, cap. 1.] _An Act to prevent Papists from sitting in either House of Parliament_. Which Oaths and Declaration the Justices of Peace, at the General