Oaths Act 1688
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1688 c. 25 |
| Year | 1688 |
(1 Will. & Mar.) C A P. XXV.
'WH E R E A S by an Act made this present Session of Parliament, intituled,An Act for the abrogating of the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance, and appointing other Oaths , all Persons that shall hereafter be put into any military Employment, shall be obliged to take the Oaths, and make and subscribe the Declaration therein mentioned, before such Person as shall issue the Commission or Warrant for such Employment; and whereas their Majesties Service does require the Regiments and Troops of Soldiers to march, and be at great Distances from London , and upon any Vacancy of and such military Employment, by Death or otherwise, it is necessary to fill up such Vacancies, by granting new Commissions for Persons that may be at a great Distance from London , so as their Majesties Service will not permit them to repair to London to take the said Oaths, and make the said Declaration as aforesaid:
II Commission Officers twenty Miles from London how to take the Oaths.
II. 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 if any Commission for such military Employment shall hereafter be granted to any Person at any Distance fromLondon exceeding twenty Miles, that such Person shall and may take the said Oaths, and make and subscribe the said Declaration, at the next Muster after the Receipt of the said Commission, before the Commissary of the Musters, or his Deputy, who is hereby authorized to tender, administer, and take the same, and are hereby required to send up a Certificate thereof, under his Hand and Seal, to the Person who issued such Commission; any Thing in the aforesaid Act to the contrary notwithstanding.
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