Security of the Succession, etc. Act 1701

X. Peers or Members of the House of Commons not having taken the Oath, and yet sitting and voting, deemed Popish

Recusant Convict, and disabled from Office and from sitting and voting, and from suing, being Guardian, &c; and Penalty £500.

And be it further enacted That if any Person that now is or hereafter shall be a Peer of this Realm or Member of the House of Peers or Member of the House of Commons in this or any succeeding Parliament shall after the said Five and twentieth Day of March presume to vote or make his Proxy not having taken the said Oath and subscribed the same as aforesaid every such Peer or Member so offending shall from thenceforth be deemed and adjudged a Popish Recusant Convict to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever and shall forfeit and suffer as a Popish Recusant Convict and shall be disabled to hold or execute any Office or Place of Profit or Trust Civil or Military in any of His Majesties Realms of England or Ireland Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or in any of His Majesties Islands or Foreign Plantations to the said Realms belonging and shall be disabled from thenceforth to sit or vote in either House of Parliament or make a Proxy in the House of Peers or to sue or use any Action Bill Plaint or Information in course of Law or to prosecute any Suit in any Court of Equity or to be Guardian of any Child or Executor or Administrator of any Person or capable of any Legacy or Deed of Gift and shall forfeit for every wilful Offence against this Act the Sum of Five hundred Pounds to be recovered and recieved by him or them that shall sue for the same and to be prosecuted by any Action of Debt Suit Bill Plaint or Information in any of His Majesties Courts at Westminster wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall lie