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LXII.Proviso for Quakers subscribing the Declaration of Fidelity, 1 W.& M. Sess. 1. c. 18.

Provided neverthelesse That whereas certaine Persons Dissenters from the Church of England co[m]monly called Quakers and now knowne to be such do scruple the taking of any Oath Itt shall be sufficient for any such Person to make and subscribe the Declaration of Fidelity contained in an Act made in the Parliament held in the First Yeare of the Reigne of King William and Queen Mary intituled An Act for exempting Their Majesties Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certaine Laws Which Declaration any Two or more of the Co[m]missioners appointed for the Execution of this Act are hereby impowered and required to take And every such Person so doeing shall not be liable to or chargeable with any the Double Rates aforesaid.