Oaths of Supremacy, etc., Ireland Act 1691

VIII. Irish Archbishops, &c. being in England at Hilary Term 1691, shall take the Oaths here, and likewise in Ireland.

Not taking the Oaths here; Penalty.; All other Officers in Ireland, being here, shall take the Oaths here.; Penalty.; Such other Officers taking the Oath as herein, effectual as if resident in Ireland, and had taken the Oaths there.

[X1 And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Archbishop and Bishop in the said Realm of Ireland and every other p[er]son and p[er]sons now having any Ecclesiasticall [X2 Office] Dignity or p[re]motion or being a Lecturer or Curate in the said Kingdom that shall happen to be in this Realm of England the First day of Hilary Term which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety and one shall take the said Oaths and make subscribe and audibly repeat the said Declarac[i]on before the end of the said Terme in their Majesties Court of Chancery or in the Court of Kings Bench in this Realm of England and shall again take the said Oaths and make subscribe and audibly repeat the said Declarac[i]on before the Five and twentieth day of July which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety and two in the Court of Chancery or Court of Kings Bench in the said Kingdom of Ireland in the Morning and between the hours of Nine and Twelve where the same shall bee put upon Record in the said respective Courts in manner as aforesaid And if any such Archbishop or Bishop or other p[er]son in any Ecclesiasticall Office Dignity or Promotion or being a Lecturer or Curate in the said Kingdom of Ireland happening to be within this Realme at the tyme aforesaid shall neglect or refuse to take the said Oaths and [X2 to] make subscribe and repeat the said Declaration within either of the tymes before menc[i]oned then he or they shall be ipso facto deprived and is and are hereby adjudged to bee deprived of his or their Archbishopricks Bishopricks and Ecclesiasticall Offices Dignities and p[re]motions and incapable to bee Lecturer or Curate in any place or cure whatsoever And all and every other person or persons having any Office or receiving any Pay Salary Fee or Wages by reason of any Patent or Grant from their Majesties or any of their Predecessors or being Master Governor Head of any Colledge in the University of Dublin or Master of any Hospitall or School or Barrester at Law Clerke in Chancery Attorney or Professor of Law or Physick or other Science that shall reside or inhabitt in this Realme on the First day of the said Hilary Terme shall before the end of the said Terme take the said Oaths and make subscribe and audibly repeat the said Declarac[i]on in their Majesties Court of Chancery or Court of Kings Bench in this Realme of England And in case such other person or persons soe resident and inhabiting in this Realme of England shall neglect or refuse to take the said Oaths and make subscribe and repeat the said Declarac[i]on before the end of the said Hilary Terme he or they shall be ipso facto thenceforth adjudged incapable and disabled in Law to all intents and purposes whatsoever to have occupy and enjoy such Office Pay Salary Fee Wages Mastership Governors place Headship Fellowship and Imployment or Imployments or any part of them and every such office or place shall be void and is hereby adjudged to be void and if such other p[er]son or p[er]sons soe residing or inhabiting in the Realme of England on the said First day of Hillary Terme shall take the said Oaths and make and subscribe the said Declaration as aforesaid it shall be as effectuall to all intents and purposes as if he or they had been then resident in Ireland and had in manner and in the time before menc[i]oned taken the said Oaths and made subscribed and repeated the said Declarac[i]on in any of the said Courts of the said Realme of Ireland]

Editorial Information

X1 annexed to the Original Act in separate Schedules.

X2 interlined on the Roll.