Grant, Command or Place of Truft, or any Profit or Advantage from the fame, knowingly C or willingly refort to, or be prefent at any Conventicle, Affembly or Meeting within Eng•land, Wales, Berwick upon Tweed, or the fles aforefaid, for the Exercife of Religion in other manner than according to the Liturgy and Pra&tice of the Church of England, in any Place within that Part of Great Britain called England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed, or the Ifles aforefaid, at which Conventicle, Affembly or Meeting, there fhall be Ten Perfons or more affembled together. over and befides thofe of the fame Houfhold, if it be in any Houfe where there is a Family inhabiting, or if it be in any House or Place where there is no Family inhabiting, then where any fuch Ten Perfons are fo affembled, as aforefaid, or fhall knowingly and willingly be prefent at any fuch Meeting in fuch Houfe or Place as aforefaid, although the Liturgy be there used, where Her Majefty (whom God long preferve) and the Princess Sophia, or fuch others as fhall from time to time be Lawfully appointed to be prayed for, fhall not there be prayed for in exprefs Words according to the Liturgy of the Church of England, except where 'fuch particular Offices of the Liturgy are used, wherein there are no exprefs Directions to pray for Her Majefty and the Royal Family, fhall forfeit Forty Pounds, to be recovered by himm or them that fhall fue for the fame, by any Action of Debt, Bill, Plant or Information, in any of Her Majefty's Courts at Weminfter, wherein no Effoign, Protection, or Wager of Law fhall be allowed, or any more than one • Imparlance.

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And be it further Enacted, That every Perfon convicted in any Action to be brought, as aforefaid, or upon any Information, Prefent6 ment or Indictment in any of Her Majefty's 'Courts at Westminster, or at the Afizzes, fhall 'be difabled from thenceforth to hold fuch Office or Offices, Employment or Employments, or

to receive any Profit or Advantage by reafon of them, or of any Grant as aforefaid, and shall be adjudged incapable to bear any Office or Em ployment whatsoever, within that Part of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, or the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, or the Inles of Jersey and Guern Sey.

Provided always, and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That if any Perfon or Perfons, who fhall have been Convicted, as aforefaid, and thereby made incapable to hold any Office or Employment, or to receive any Profit or Advantage by reafon of them, or of any Grant as aforefaid, fhall, after fuch Conviction, conform to the Church of England, for the space of One Year, without having been prefent at any Conventicle, Affembly, or Meeting, as aforefaid, and Receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, according to the Rites and Ufage of the Church of England, at least three times in the Year, every fuch Person or Perfons fhall be capable of the Grant of any the Offices or Employments aforefaid.

6 Provided alfo, and be it further Enacted, That every fuch Perfon fo convicted, and afterwards conforming, in manner, as aforefaid, 'fhall at the next Term after his Admiffion into any fuch Office or Employment, make Oath in 'Writing in fome one of Her Majefty's Courts at Westminster, in Publick and Open Court, or at the next Quarter Seffions for that County or Place where he fhall refide, between the Hours of Nine and Twelve in the Forenoon, That he hath conformed to the Church of England for the Space of One Year before fuch his Admiffion, without having been present at any Conventicle, Affembly or Meeting, as aaforefaid, and that he hath Received the Sa crament of the Lord's Supper, at least Three Times in the Year; which Oath fhall be there ⚫ enrolled and kept upon Record.

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• Provided, That no Perfon fhall fuffer any • Punishment or the Offence committed against this Act, unless Oath be made of fuch Offence, before fome Judge or Juftice of the Peace (who' is hereby impowered and required to take the faid Oath)within Ten Days after the faid Offence committed, and unlefs the faid Offender be 2 profecuted for the fame within Three Months after the faid Offence committed, nor fhall any • Perfon be convicted for any fuch Offence, unless upon the Oaths of Two credible Witneffes at the leaft.

Provided always, That this Aft, or any Thing therein contained, or an Offence against the fame, fhall not extend or be judged to take away or make void any Office of Inheritance; nevertheless, fo as fuch Perfon having or enjoying any fuch Office of Inheritance, do or fhall fubftitute and appoint his fufficient Deputy (which fuch Officer is hereby impowered from time to time, to make or change any former Law or Ufage to the contrary notwithstanding) to exercise the faid Office, until fuch time as the Perfon having fuch Office, fhall conform, as aforefaid.

And it is hereby further enacted and declared 'by the Authority aforesaid, That the Toleration granted to Proteftant Diffenters by the Act made in the First Year of the Reign of King • William and Queen Mary, Intituled. An Att • for Exempting their Majefties Pro eftant Sub•jects, Dijlenting from the Church of England, from the Penalties of certain Laws, fhall be, and is hereby ratified and confirmed, and that the fame Act fhall at all times be inviolably obferved, for the Exempting of fuch Proteftant • Diffenters, as are thereby intended from the • Pains and Penalties therein mentioned.

And for the rendring the faid last mentioned Act more effectual, according to the true "Intent and Meaning thereof, Be it further Enacted and Declared by the Authority aforefaid, That if any Perfon diffenting from the • Church of England, (not in Holy Orders, or E 4

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pretended Holy Orders, or pretending to Holy Orders, nor any Preacher or Teacher of any Congregation) who fhould have been entitutuled to the Benefit of the faid laft mentioned Act, if fuch Perfon had duly taken, made, and fubfcribed the Oaths and Declaration, or other wife qualify'd him or herself, as required by the faid Act, and now is or fhall be profecuted upon or by Virtue of any of the Penal Statues, from which Proteftant Diffenters are exempted by the faid Act, fhall at auy time during fuch Profecution, take, make and fub• fcribe the faid Oaths and Declaration, or being of the People called Quakers, fhall make and fubfcribe the aforefaid Declaration, and alfo the Declaration of Fidelity, and fubfcribe the Profeffion of their Chriftian Belief, according to the faid Act, or before any Two of Her Majefty's Juftices of the Peace (who are hereby required to take and return the fame to the next Quarter-Seffions of the Peace, to be there recorded) fuch Perfon fhall be, and is hereby entituled to the Benefit of the faid Act, as fully and effectually, as if fuch Perfon had duly qualified himself within the Time prefcribed by the faid Act, and fhall be thenceforth exempted and difcharged from all the Penalties and Forfeitures incurr'd by force of any the aforefaid Penal

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And whereas it is or may be doubted whether a Preacher or Teacher of any Congregation of Diffenting Proteftants, duly in all refpects qualified according to the faid Act, be allowed, by virtue of the faid Act, to Officiate in any Congregation in any County, other than that in which he fo qualified himself, although in a Congregation or Place of Meeting, duly certified and regiftred as is required by the A&t; Be it Declared and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That any fuch Preacher or Teacher, fo duly qualified according to the faid Act, fhall be and is hereby allowed to Officiate in any Congregation, although the fame be not in the County wherein he was fo qualified; pro

vided that the faid Congregation. or Place of "Meeting hath been before fuch Officiating, duly "certified and regiftred or recorded according to "the faid Act: And fuch Preacher or Teacher,

fhall, if required, produce a Certificate of his . having fo qualified himself, under the Hand of the Clerk of the Peace for the County or Place where he fo qualified himfelf, which Certificate fuch Clerk of the Peace is hereby required to make; and fhall alfo before any Juftice of the Peace of fuch County or Place where he fhall fo Officiate, make and fubfcribe fuch Declaration, and take fuch Oaths as are mentioned in the faid Act, if thereunto required.

And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That on or before the 15th of June next, all Advocates, Writers to the Signet, Notaries Publick, and other Members of the College of Juftice, within that Part of Her Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called Scotland, fhall be and are hereby obliged to take and fubfcribe the Oath appointed by the Act of the Sixth Year of Majefty's Reign, intituled, An Act for the better Security of Her Majefty's Perfon and Government, before the Lords of Seffion of the a• forefaid Part of Her Majefty's Kingdom, except fuch of the faid Perfons who have already taken the fame: And if any of the Perfons aforefaid, do or fhall neglect or refufe to take and fubfcribe the faid Oath as aforefaid, fuch Perfon fhal be 6 ipfo facto adjuged incapable, and disabled in Law to have, enjoy or exercife in any manner his faid 'Employment or Practice.

And be it further Enacted by the Authority 'aforefaid, That in all time coming, no Perfon or • Perfons fhall be admitted to the Employment of < Advocate, Writer to the Signet,Notary Publick, or any Office belonging to faid College of Juftice, ' until he or they have taken and fubfcribed the aforefaid Oath, in manner as above directed.

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