Taxation (No. 3) Act 1694

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 sixteene yeares or upwards and being within this realme at the time of the execuc[i]on of this Act who shall not before that time have taken the oaths menc[i]oned and required to be taken by the said Act intituled (An Act for the abrogateing of 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 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 said oaths the said Co[m]missioners or any two or more of them are hereby impowered and required to administer) shall yeild and pay unto his Majestie double the su[m]mes and rates which by force or virtue of any clause in this Act before menc[i]oned or [X1 cotained] he or shee should or ought to pay or be charged with in manner as is before in this p[re]sent Act appointed touching Papists or reputed Papists:-

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: contained O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]