Land Tax Act 1696

LIX. Persons of 16 and upwards, who shall not have taken the Oaths before the Execution of Act, and who, being summoned, shall refuse to take them, or neglect to appear before Commissioners, to pay double.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Person being of the Age of Sixteen Yeares and upwards and being within this Realme att the time of the Execution of this Act who shall not before that time have taken the Oaths mentioned and required to be taken by the said Act intituled An Act for the abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths and upon Su[m]mons by Warrant under the Hand and Seale of any Two or more of the said Co[m]missioners shall refuse to take the said Oaths att the time appointed in the said Warrant or shall neglect to appeare att such time before the Co[m]missioners in order to take the said Oaths (which said Oaths the said Co[m]missioners or any Two or more of them are hereby impowered and required to administer) shall yield and pay unto His Majesty Double the Su[m]ms and Rates which by force and virtue of any Clause in this Act before mentioned or contained hee or she should or ought to pay or be charged with in manner as is before in this present Act appointed touching Papists or reputed Papists.