Popish Recusants Act 1672
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1672 c. 2 |
| Year | 1672 |
(25 Cha. 2) C A P. II.
FO R preventing Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants, and quieting the Mindsof his Majesty's good Subjects; (2) Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by Authority of the same, That all and every Person or Persons, as well Peers as Commoners, that shall bear any Office or Offices Civil or Military, or shall receive any Pay, Salary, Fee or Wages, by reason of any Patent or Grant from his Majesty, or shall have Command or Place of Trust from or under his Majesty, or from any of his Majesty's Predecessors, or by his or their Authority, or by Authority derived from him or them, within the Realm ofEngland , Dominion of Wales , or Town of Berwick upon Tweed , or in his Majesty's Navy, or in the several Islands of Jersey and Guernsey , or shall be of the Household, or in the Service or Imployment of his Majesty, or of his Royal Highness the Duke of York , who shall inhabit, reside or be within the City of London or Westminster , or within thirty Miles distant from the same, on the first Day of Easter Term that shall be in the Year of our Lord one thousand six hundred seventy-three; or at any Time during the said Term, all and every the said Person and Persons shall personally appear before the End of the said Term, or of Trinity Term next following, in his Majesty's High Court of Chancery, or in his Majesty's Court of King's Bench, and there in publick and open Court, between the Hours of Nine of the Clock and Twelve in the Forenoon, take the several Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance (which Oath of Allegiance is contained in the Statute made in the third Year of King James ) by Law established; (3) and during the Time of the taking thereof by the said Person and Persons, all Pleas and Proceedings in the said respective Courts shall cease; (4)and that all and every of the said respective Persons and Officers, not having taken the said Oaths in the said respective Courts aforesaid, shall on or before the first Day ofAugust one thousand six hundred seventy-three, at the Quarter-Sessions for that County or Place where he or they shall be, inhabit or reside on the twentieth Day of , take the said Oaths in open Court between the said Hours of Nine and Twelve of the Clock in the Forenoon; (5) and the said respective Officers aforesaid shall also receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, according to the Usage of the Church ofEngland , at or before the first Day of August in the Year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and seventy-three, in some Parish Church, upon some Lord's Day, commonly called Sunday , immediately after Divine Service and Sermon.
II All Persons to be admitted into any Office, &c. after the first Day of Easter-Term, to take the said Oaths, &c. See 2 Geo. 2. c. 31. ∥ 9. Carthew 478. 2 Mod. 209. Combers. 21.
II. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all and every Person or Persons that shall be admitted, entred, placed or taken into any Office or Offices Civil or Military, or shall receive any Pay, Salary, Fee or Wages, by reason of any Patent or Grant of his Majesty, or shall have Command or Place of Trust from or under his Majesty, his Heirs or Successors, or by his or their Authority, or by Authority derived from him or them, within this Realm ofEngland , Dominion of Wales , or Town of Berwick upon Tweed , or in his Majesty's Navy, or in the several Islands of Jersey and Guernsey , or that shall be admitted into any Service or Imployment in his Majesty's or Royal Highness's Household or Family, after the first Day of Easter Term aforesaid, and shall inhabit, be or reside, when he or they is or are so admitted or placed, within the Cities of London or Westminster , or within thirty Miles of the same, shall take the said Oaths aforesaid in the said respective Court or Courts aforesaid, in the next Termafter such his or their Admittance or Admittances into the Office or Offices, Imployment or Imployments aforesaid, between the Hours aforesaid, and no other, and the Proceedings to cease as aforesaid; (2) and that all and every such Person or Persons to be admitted after the said first Day ofEaster Term as aforesaid, not having taken the said Oaths in the said Courts aforesaid, shall at the Quarter-Sessions for that County or Placewhere he or they shall reside, next after such his Admittance or Admittances into any of the said respective Offices or Imployments aforesaid, take the said several and respective Oaths as aforesaid: (3)And all and every such Person and Persons so to be admitted as aforesaid, shall also receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, according to the Usage of the Church ofEngland , within three Months after his or their Admittance in or receiving their said Authority and Imployment, in some publick Church, upon some Lord's Day, commonly calledSunday , immediately after Divine Service and Sermon.
III A Certificate to be delivered into Court, of his Receiving the Sacrament.
III. And every of the said Persons in the respective Court where he takes the said Oaths shall first deliver a Certificate of such his receiving the said Sacrament as aforesaid, under the Hands of the respective Minister and Churchwarden, and shall then make Proof of the Truth thereof by two credible Witnesses at the least, upon Oath; all which shall be enquired of, and put upon Record in the respective Courts.
IV Whosoever shall refuse to take the Oaths shall be adjudged uncapable of any other Office.
IV. And be it further...
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