Security of King and Government Act 1695
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1695 c. 27 |
| Year | 1695 |
(7 & 8 Will. 3) C A P. XXVII.
'WHEREAS the Welfare and Safety of this Kingdom, and the Reformed Religion, do, next under God, intirely depend upon the Preservation of your Majesty's Royal Person and Government, which by the merciful Providence of God of late have been delivered from the bloody and barbarous Attempts of Traitors and other your Majesty's Enemies, who, there is just Reason to believe, have in great measure been encouraged to undertake and prosecute such their wicked Designs, partly by Your Majesty's great and undeserved Clemency towards them, and partly by the Want of a sufficient Provision in the Law, for the securing Offices and Places of Trust to such as are well affected to your Majesty's Government, and for the repressing and punishing such as are known to be disaffected to the same:' For Remedy whereof may it please your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the first Day ofMay one thousand six hundred ninety-six, all and every Person and Persons who shall refuse to take the Oaths mentioned and appointed to be taken in an Act of Parliament made in the first Year of the Reign of his present Majesty and the late Queen of Blessed Memory, intituled, An Act for the abrogating of the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance, and appointing other Oaths , or either of them, when tendred to him or them by any Persons lawfully authorized to administer or tender the same, or shall refuse or neglect to appear when lawfully summoned, in order to have the said Oaths tendred to him or them, shall, until he or they have duly taken the said Oaths, be liable to incur, forfeit, pay and suffer all and every the Penalties, Forfeitures, Sums of Money, Disabilities and Incapacities, which by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm, now in force, or any of them, are inflicted upon Popish Recusants duly convict of Recusancy: Andfor the better and more orderly levying and answering the said Penalties and Forfeitures to his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, the Persons so tendring the said Oaths shall, upon every such Refusal or Default of Appearance as aforesaid, record and enter in Parchment the Christian and Surnames, and the Place of abode of the Person or Persons so refusing, or not appearing as aforesaid, to take the said Oaths, or either of them, together with the Time of such Tender and Refusal, or Default of Appearance, and shall deliver and certify the said Recordor Entry to the Justices of Assize, Justices ofOyer and Terminer , or Gaol Delivery, at their next Session within the same County, who shall forthwith estreat and certify the same into his Majesty's Court of Exchequer , to be there entred of Record, to the end that the said Court of may thereupon award and issue such Process against the Lands and Goods of the said Person or Persons mentioned in such Estreat or Certificate, as may by the Laws and Statutes...
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