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tificate of their having received the facrament, nor to make or subscribe the declaration against transubstantiation. But they are to take the oaths in like manner as civil officers, by the 1 G. fl. 2. c. 13. which enacteth as follows:

Every person who shall be admitted into any office civil or military; or shall receive any pay by reason of any patent or grant from the king; or shall have any command or place of trust in England, or in the navy; or shall have any service or employment in the king's houshold; all ecclefiaftical persons; heads and members of colleges, being of the foundation, or having any exhibition, of eighteen years of age; and all persons teaching pupils; schoolmasters and ushers; preachers and teachers of separate congregations,-shall (within fix kalendar months after such admiffion, 9 G. 2. c. 26. f. 3.) take and subscribe the oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration, in one of the courts at Westminster, or at the general or quarter sessions. . 2. And this to be between the hours of nine and twelve in the forenoon, and no other. 25. C. 2. f. 2.

But this not to extend to churchwardens, nor to any like inferior civil office. 1 G. ft. 2. c. 13. S. 20.

And every person making default herein, shall be incapable to hold his office: and if he shall execute his office, after the time expired, he shall, upon conviction, be disabled to sue in any action, or to be guardian, or executor, or administrator, or capable of any legacy or deed of gift, or to bear any office, or to vote at any election for members of parliament, and shall forfeit 500 1. to him who shall fue. 1 G. A. 2. c. 13. . 8.

But generally there is an indemnifying clause in some act of parliament every two or three years, on condition that the perfons qualify within the time therein prescribed.

And persons forfeiting their office may take a new grant thereof, on their taking the oaths, and conform. ing; provided it was not filled up before. 1 G. A. 2. c. 13. S. 14.

In the univerfities; where persons shall not take the oaths, or shall not produce a certificate thereof, to be registred in their proper college, and others' be not elected in their places within twelve months, the king shall appoint and nominate. I G. A. 2. c. 13. /. 12,

20. The

Forms thereof.

20. The oath of allegiance by the 1 G. A. 2. c. 13. is this:

1 A. B. do fincerely promise and swear, that I will be faithful, and bear true allegiance to his majesty king George z So help me God.

The oath of fupremacy by the same statute.

1 A. B. do fwear, that I do from my heart abbor, detest, and abjure, as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, that princes excommunicated or deprived by the pope, or any authority of the fee of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever. And I do declares that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or -potentate, hath or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority, ecclefiaftical or spiritual, within this realm: So help me God.; **The oath of abjuration by the 6 G. 3. c. 53.

I A. B. do truly and fincerely acknowledge, profess, testify and declare in my confcience, before God and the world, that our Sovereign lord king George is lawful and rightful king of this realm, and all other his majesty's dominions thereunto belonging. And I do folemnly and fincerely declare, that I do believe in my confcience, that not any of the descendants of the perfon who pretended to be prince of Wales during the life of the late king James the second, and fince his decease pretended to be, and took upon himself the ftile and title of king of England, by the name of fames the third, or of Scotland, by the name of James the eighth, or the ftile and title of king of Great Britain, hath any right or title whatsoever to the crown of this realm, or any other the dominions thereunto belonging: And I do renounce, refuse, and abjure any allegiance or obedience to any of them. And I do fwear, that I will bear faith and true allegiance to his majesty king George, and him will defend, to the utmost of my power, against all traiterous conspiracies and attempts whatforver, which shall be made against his person, crown, or dignity. And I will do my utmost endeavour, to disclose and make known, to bis majesty and his fucceffors, all treasons and traiterous conspiracies, which I shall know to be against him or any of them. And I do faithfully promise, to the utmost of my power, to support, maintain, and defend the succession of the crown against the descendants of the said "James, and against all other perfons whatsoever; which fucceffion, by an act, intituled, An act for the further limitation of the crown, and better fecuring the rights and liberties of the subject, is and tands limited to the princess Sophia, electress and duchess dowager of Hanover, and the heirs of her body, being protestants.

And all these things I do plainly and fincerely acknowledge and fwear, according to these express words by me spoken, and according to the plain and common sense and understanding of the fame words, without any equivocation, mental evasion, or fecret reservation whatsoever. And I do make this recognition, acknowledgment, abjuration, renunciation, and promife, heartily, willingly, and truly, upon the true faith of a christian: So belp me God.

The declaration against transubstantiation, by the 25 С. 2. 6. 2. is this:

1 A. B. do declare, that I do believe, that there is not any tranfubftantiation in the facrament of the Lord's fupper, or in the elements of bread and wine, at or after the confecration thereof by any person whatsoever.

The declaration against popery, by the 30 C. 2. ft. 2. c. 1. is as follows:

1 A. B. do folemnly and fincerely, in the presence of God, profess, teftify, and declare, that I do believe, that in the facrament of the Lord's fupper there is not any tranfubftantiation of the elements of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, at or after the confecration thereof by any perfon whatfoever: And that the invocation, or adoration of the virgin Mary, or any other faint, and the sacrifice of the mass, as they are now used in the church of Rome, are fuperftitious and idolatrous: And I do folemnly in the presence of God profess, testify, and declare, that I do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary fense of the words read unto me, as they are commonly understood by English protestants, without any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation whatfoever, and without any difpenfation already granted me for this purpose by the pope, or any other authority or person whatsoever, or without any hope of any such difpenfation from any perfon or authority whatsoever, or without thinking that I am or can be acquitted before God or man, or abfolved of this declaration, or any part thereof, althe the pope, or any other perfon or perfons, or power whatsoever, shall dispense with or annul the fame, or declare that it was null and void from the begin. ning.

Or without any hope of dispensation, or without thinking that I am or can be acquitted, &c.] By this disjunctive [or] here twice occurring, this declaration seemeth to be rendred fomewhat loose and unconnected, and leaveth scope for equivocation. The word [and] seemeth to have been intended, and would render the declaration more compact.

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Declaration and oath of catholicks.

Declaration.

Oath.

[20 B. By the 31 G. 3. c. 32. Catholicks who shall take and subscribe the following declaration and oath, in any of his majesty's courts at Westminster, or any court of general quarter sessions, between the hours of nine in the morning and two in the afternoon, are relieved from divers penalties and disabilities. See Popery paffim.

1 A. B. do declare, that I do profess the Roman catholick religion.

I A. B. do fincerely promise and swear, that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to his majesty king George the third; and him will defend to the utmost of my power against all conspiracies and attempts whatever that shall be made against his perfon, crown, or dignity; and I will do my utmost endeavour to disclose and make known to his majesty, his heirs and fuccessors, all treasons and traiterous conspiracies which may be formed against him or them: And I do faithfully promise to maintain, fupport, and defend, to the utmost of my power, the fucceffion of the crown; which fucceffion, by an aft intituled, An act for the further limitation of the crown, and better securing the rights and liberties of the subject, is and stands limited to the princess Sophia, electress and dutchess dowager of Hanover, and the heirs of her body, being protestants; bereby utterly renouncing and abjuring any obedience or allegiance unto any other perfon claiming or pretending a right to the crown of these realms: And I do fwear, that I do reject and detest, as an unchristian and impious position, that it is lawful to murder or destroy any person or persons whatsoever, for or under pretence of their being bereticks or infidels; and also that unchristian and impious principle that faith is not to be kept with hereticks or infidels : And I further declare, that it is not an article of my faith, and that I do renounce, reject, and abjure the opinion, that princes excommunicated by the pope and council, or any authority of the fee of Rome, or by any authority whatsoever, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any perfon whatsoever. And 1 do promise, that I will not hold, maintain, or abet any such opinion, or any other opinions, contrary to what is expressed in this declaration: And I do declare, that I do not believe that the pope of Rome, or any other foreign prince, prelate, state, or potentate, bath or ought to have, any temporal or civil jurisdiction, power, fuperiority, or pre-eminence, directly or indirectly, within this realm. And I do folemnly, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, that I do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary

ordinary fense of the words of this oath, without any evasion, equivocation, or mental refervation whatever, and without any difpenfation already granted by the pope, or any awhority of the fee of Rome, or any perfon whatever; and without thinking that I am or can be acquitted before God or man, or abfolved of this declaration, or any part thereof, although the pope, or any other perfon or authority whatsoever, shall dispense with, or annut the fame, or declare that it was null or void. So

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21. By the 8 G. t. 6. The quakers folemn affirmation, Forme of quainstead of an oath, is this:

1 A. B. do folemnly, fincerely, and truly declare and affirm. By the fame act, instead of the oaths of allegiance and fupremacy, quakers shall be allowed to make the following declaration of fidelity:

1 A. B. do folemnly and fincerely promise and declare, that 1 will be true and faithful to king George; ond do folemnly, fin cerely, and truly profess, testify, and declare, that I do from my heart abbor, deteft, and renounce, as impious and heretical, that wicked doctrine and position, that princes excommunicated or de prived by the pope, or any authority of the fee of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their fubjects, or any other whatsoever And I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, Pate or patentate, bath or ought to have, any power, jurisdiction, superiority, preheminence, or authority, ecclefiaftical or spiritual, within this realm.

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And by the fame act, they were allowed to take the ef fect of the abjuration oath, in these words:

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1 A. B. do folemnly, fincerely, and truly acknowledge, profefs, testify, and declare, that king George is lawful and ri ful king of this realm, and of all other his dominions and countries thereunto belonging, and I do folemnly and fincerely declare, that I do believe the perfon pretended to be the prince of Wales, during the life of the late king James, and fince his decease, pretending to be, and taking upon himself the ftile and title of king of England, by the name of James the third, or of Scot land, by the name of James the eighth, or the ftile and title of king of Great Britain, hath not any right or title whatever to the crown of this realm, nor any other the dominions thereunto belonging; and I do renounce and refuse any allegiance or obedience to him. And I da folemnly promise, that I will be true and faithful, and bear true allegiance to king George, and to bim will be faithful against all traiterous conspiracies and attempts whatsoever, which shall be made against his perfon, crown, or dignity. And I will do my best endeavour to disclose and make known to king George, and his fuccessors, all treasons

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