Popery Act 1698

IV. After the 29th Sept. 1700, any Person educated in the Popish Religion within Six Months after attaining 18, not taking the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, and subscribing Declaration of 30 Car. II. Stat. 2. c. 1. as herein mentioned, disable, as herein mentioned; and the Protestant next of Kindred to have the Lands of such Person without Account, except in case of wilful Waste.

Treble Damages to Party disabled.; After 10th April 1700, Papists disabled to purchase Lands, as herein mentioned .

And be it alsoe further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the Nine and twentieth Day of September which shall be in the Yeare of our Lord One thousand seaven hundred if any Person educated in the Popish Religion or professing the same shall not within Six Months after he or she shall attaine the Age of Eighteene Yeares take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and alsoe subscribe the Declaration sett downe and exprest in an Act of Parliament made in the Thirtieth Year of the Reigne of the late King Charles the Second intituled An Act for the more effectuall preserveing the Kings Person and Government by disabling Papists from sitting in either House of Parliament to be by him or her made repeated and subscribed in the Courts of Chancery or Kings Bench or Quarter Sessions of the County where such Person shall reside every such Person shall in respect of him or herselfe only and not to or in respect of any of his or her Heires or Posterity be disabled and made incapable to inherit or take by Discent Devise or Limittation in Possession Reversion or Remainder any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments within this Kingdome of England Dominion of Wales or Towne of Berwick upon Tweed And that during the Life of such Person or untill he or she doe take the said Oaths and make repeate and subscribe the said Declaration in Manner as aforesaid the next of his or her Kindred which shall be a Protestant shall have and enjoy the said Lands Tenements and Hereditaments without being accountable for the Profitts by him or her received during such Enjoyment thereof as aforesaid but in case of any wilfull Wast committed on the said Lands Tenements or Hereditaments by the Person soe haveing or enjoying the same or any other by his or her Lycence or Authority the Party disabled his or her Executors and Administrators shall and may recover Treble Damages for the same against the Person committing such Wast his or her Executors or Administrators by Action of Debt in any of His Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster And that from and after the Tenth Day of Aprill which shall be in the Yeare of our Lord One thousand seaven hundred every Papist or Person makeing Profession of the Popish Religion shall be disabled and is hereby made incapable to purchase either in his or her owne Name or in the Name of any other Person or Persons to his or her Use or in Trust for him or her any Mannors Lands Profitts out of Lands Tenements Rents Termes or Hereditaments within the Kingdome of England Dominion of Wales and Towne of Berwick upon Tweed And that all and singuler Estates Termes and any other Interests or Profitts whatsoever out of Lands from and after the said Tenth Day of Aprill to be made suffered or done to for the Use or Behoofe of any such Person or Persons or upon any Trust or Confidence mediately or immediately to or for the Benefitt or Releife of any such Person or Persons shall be utterly void and of none Effect to all Intents Constructions and Purposes whatsoever