Popish Recusants Act 1672

II. Persons admitted into any Office, &c. after the First Day of Easter Term, and residing in London, &c. or within 30 Miles, to take the said Oaths;

when and where to be taken; Proceedings to cease; If not taken in the Courts then at Quarter Sessions;and to receive the Sacrament.; A. Certificate, with Proof thereof, upon Oath to be delivered into Court of his receiving the Sacrament.

X1 Bee it further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid That all and every person or persons that shall be admitted entered placed or taken into any Office or Offices Civill or Military or shall receive any Pay, Salary, Fee or Wages by reason of any Patent or Grant of his Majestie or shall have Command or place of Trust from or under his Majestie His Heires or Successors or by his or their authority or by authoritie derived from him or them within this Realme of England, Dominion of Wales or Towne of Berwicke upon Tweede or in his Majestyes Navy, or in the severall Islands of Jersey and Gernsey, or that shall be admitted into any Service or imployment in his Majesties or Royall Highnesses Household or Family after the first day of Easter Terme aforesaid and shall inhabite, be, or reside when he or they is or are soe admitted or placed within the Cittyes of London or Westminster or within thirty miles of the same shall take the said Oathes aforesaid in the said respective Court or Courts aforesaid in the next Terme after [X2 such] his or their admittance or admittances into the Office or Offices Imployment or Imployments aforesaid betweene the houres aforesaid and noe other, and the proceedings to cease as aforesaid, And that all and every such person or persons to be admitted after the said first day of Easter Terme as aforesaid not haveing taken the said Oathes in the said Courts aforesaid shall at the Quarter Sessions for that County or place where 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 severall and respective Oathes as aforesaid and all and every such person and persons soe to be admitted as aforesaid shall alsoe receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper according to the Usage of the Church of England within three moneths after his or their admittances in, or receiving their said authority and imployment in some publique Church upon some Lords day commonly called Sunday immediately after Divine Service and Sermon, And every of the said persons in the respective Court where he takes the said Oathes 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 proofe of the truth thereof by two credible Witnesses at the least upon Oath, All which shall be inquired of and putt upon Record in the respective Courts.

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: And O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]

X2 interlined on the Roll.