Security of the Succession, etc. Act 1701

II. The Persons herein mentioned to take the said Oath at the Time that they make and subscribe the Declaration of Stat. 25 Car. II. c. 2. § 8.

Ecclesiastical Persons within Places herein mentioned, within Three Months after Admittance to Preferment or Office to take and subscribe the said Oath.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Person and Persons that shall be admitted entred placed or taken into any Office or Offices Civil or Military or shall recieve any Pay Salary Fee or Wages by reason of any Patent or Grant from His Majesty or shall have Command or Place of Trust from or under His Majesty or by His Authority or by Authority derived from him within this Realm of England Dominion of Wales Town of Berwick upon Tweed or in His Majesties Navy or in the several Islands of Jersey and Guernsey or that shall be admitted into any Service or Imployment in His Majesties Houshold or Family or of His Royal Highness Prince George or of Her Royal Highness the Princess Ann of Denmark after the said First Day of Easter Term aforesaid shall take the said Oath at the same Time that he or they shall make and subscribe the Declaration mentioned in a Statute made in the Five and twentieth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King Charles the Second intituled An Act for preventing Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants [X1 and all Ecclesiastical Persons all Members of Colledges and Halls in either University that are or shall be of the Foundation being of or as soon as they shall attain the Age of Eighteen Years and all Persons teaching Pupils in either University or elcewhere and all Schoolmasters and Ushers and all Preachers and Teachers of separate Congregations and every Person who shall act as Serjeant at Law Councellor at Law Barrister Advocate Attorney Solicitor Proctor Clerk or Notary by practising in any Manner as such in any Court or Courts whatsoever who shall at any Time after the First Day of Easter Term aforesaid be admitted into or enter upon any of the beforementioned Preferments Benefices Offices or Places or shall come into any such Capacity or shall take upon him or them any such Practise Imployment or Business as aforesaid shall within Three Months after he or they shall be admitted into or enter upon any such Preferment Benefice Office or Place or come into such Capacity or take upon him or them such Practise Imployment or Business as aforesaid take and subscribe the said Oath in one of the said Courts at Westminster or at the General Quarter Sessions of the County City or Place where he or they shall reside]

Editorial Information

X1 annexed to the Original Act in Two separate Schedules.