Ecclesiastical History of England, Volume 5—The Church of the RevolutionStoughton, John
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Ecclesiastical History of England, Volume 5—The Church of the Revolution
Stoughton, John
Great Britain -- Church history
Sessions of the Peace to be held for the County or Place where such
person shall live, are hereby required to tender and administer to such
persons as shall offer themselves to [Sidenote: Taking Declaration to
be Registered.] take, make, and subscribe the same, and thereof to keep
a Register. [Sidenote: Fee for register and Certificate.] And likewise,
none of the persons aforesaid shall give or pay, as any fee or reward,
to any officer or officers belonging to the Court aforesaid, above
the sum of 6^d, nor that more than once, for his or their entry of his
taking the said oaths, and making and subscribing the said Declaration;
nor above the further sum of 6^d for any certificate of the same, to be
made out and signed by the Officer or officers of the said Court.
[Sidenote: Persons convicted, &c. taking the oaths, &c. shall be
discharged.]
II.--And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all
and every person and persons already convicted, or prosecuted in
order to conviction of Recusancy, by Indictment, Information, Action
of Debt, or otherwise grounded upon the aforesaid Statute; or any of
them that shall take the said Oaths mentioned in the said Statute,
made this present Parliament, and make and subscribe the Declaration
aforesaid in the Court of Exchequer, or Assizes, or General or Quarter
Sessions, to be held for the county where such person lives, and to be
thence respectively certified into the Exchequer, shall be thenceforth
exempted and discharged from all the Penalties, Seizures, Forfeitures,
Judgments, and Executions, incurred by force of any the aforesaid
Statutes, without any composition, fee, or further charge whatsoever.
III.--And be it further enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That all
and every person and persons that shall, as aforesaid, take the said
Oaths, and make and subscribe the Declaration aforesaid, shall not be
liable to any pains, penalties, or forfeitures, mentioned in an Act
made in the 35^{th} year of the reign of the late Queen Elizabeth,
entituled, [Sidenote: 35 Eliz., cap. 1.] _An Act to retain the Queen’s
Majesty’s Subjects in their due obedience_. Nor in an Act made in the
22^{nd} year of the reign of the late King Charles II., entituled,
[Sidenote: 22 Car. II., cap. 1.] _An Act to prevent and suppress
seditious Conventicles_. [Sidenote: Ecclesiastical Court.] Nor shall
any of the said persons be prosecuted in any Ecclesiastical Court, for,
or by reason of, their Non-Conforming to the Church of England.
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