Parliament Act 1678

VIII. During the taking Oaths and subcribing Declaration, all Proceedings in Courts and Parliament to cease.

Schedule of Oaths taken, Names, &c. to be filed in Rolls by the Clerks of both Houses, &c. Fee.; The said Rolls may be inspected.; Houses of Peers and Commons, and Court of Chancery, to administer Oaths and Declaration.

And bee it enacted That dureing the time of takeing of the said Oathes and makeing and subscribeing the said Declaration all other Matters and Proceedings as well in the said Houses of Parlyament as in the said Court shall cease, And the said Oathes Declaration and Subscription together with a Schedule of the Names of the persons who shall by vertue of this Act take and subscribe the same shall be made entred and filed in Parchment Rolls from time to time duely provided for that purpose by the Clerke of the House of Lords and the Clerke of the House of Commons and by the Clerke of the Petty Bag in Chauncery for the severall and respective uses as aforesaid, and none of the Peeres or Members shall give or pay any Fee or Reward to any such Clerke above the summe of Twelve pence for the Entry of his takeing the said Oathes and makeing and subscribeing the said Declaration. All which Rolls respectively the said Clerks are hereby required from time to time without any Fee or Reward to shew to any person desireing to looke upon the same. And the said House of Peeres and House of Commons and Court of Chauncery are hereby severally impowered and required in the first place all other Busines laid aside to administer the said Oathes Declaration and Subscription respectively as occasion shall be from time to time to all and every the person and persons aforesaid duly demanding the same according to the directions purport and meaning of this present Act.