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VIII.Proviso for Quakers to subscribe the Declaration of Fidelity, 1 W. & M. c. 18. ยง 10.

Provided nevertheless That whereas certain Persons Dissenters from the Church of England commonly called Quakers and now known to be such do scruple the taking any Oath it shal be sufficient for every such Person to make and subscribe the Declaration of Fidelity contained in an Act intituled An Act for exempting Their Majesties Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws which Declaration any Two or more of the Commissioners appointed for the Execution of this Act are hereby impowred and required to administer and every such Person so doing shal not be liable to or chargable with any the double Rates aforesaid.