Land Tax Act 1693

XLVI. Persons of 16 and upwards, who shall not have taken the Oaths before Execution of Act, and 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 or upwards and being within this Realme att the time of the execuc[i]on of this Act who shall not before that time have taken the Oaths menc[i]oed and required to bee taken by the said Act entituled An Act for the abrogating of the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths And upon Su[m]mons by Warrant under the Hand and Seal of any Two or more of the Co[m]missioners appointed by this Act 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 Oaths the said Co[m]missioners or any Two or more of them are hereby required and impowered to administer shall yield and pay unto Their Majesties double the su[m]ms and rates which by force or virtue of any Clause in this Act before menc[i]oed or contained he 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.