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Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Act 1661
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IV.Proviso touching the Oath Ex Officio.
Provided alsoe and it is hereby further Enacted That it shall not be lawfull for any Archbishop Bishop Vicar Generall Chancellor Commissary or any other Spirituall or Ecclesiasticall Judge Officer or Minister or any other person having or exercising Spirituall or Ecclesiasticall Jurisdiction to tender or administer unto any person whatsoever the Oath usually called the Oath Ex Officio or any other Oath whereby such person to whom the same is tendred or administred may be charged or compelled to confesse or accuse or to purge him or her selfe of any criminall matter or thing whereby he or she may be lyable to any censure or punishment Any thing in this Statute or any other Law Custome or Usage heretofore to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding.
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