Security of King and Government Act 1695

XVIII. Persons refusing the Oaths of 1 W. & M. c. 8. or, being Quakers, refusing to subscribe the Declaration of Fidelity of 1 W. &M. c. 18. which may be administered by Sheriff, &c. at Poll, not admitted to vote.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Person who shall refuse to take the Oaths directed by an Act made in the First Yeare of the Reigne of His present Majesty and the late Queen Mary intituled An Act for abrogating of the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths or being Quakers shall refuse to subscribe the Declaration of Fidelity directed by one other Act of Parliament made in the said First Yeare of the Reigne of His present Majesty and the late Queene intituled An Act for exempting Their Majesties Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certaine Laws (which Oaths and Subscription respectively the Sheriff or Chief Officer, taking the Poll att any Election of Members to serve in Parliament att the request of any one of the Candidates are hereby impowered and required to administer) shall be admitted to give any Vote for the Election of any Knight of the Shire Citizen Burgesse or Baron of the Cinque Ports to serve in Parliament.