Parliament Act 1678

II. Peers and Members, of the House of Commons not having taken the said Oaths, &c. and all Popish Recusants Convict, coming into the Presence of the King or Queen, &c.

Penalties.; Proviso.

And bee it further enacted That from and after the said First day of December every Peere of this Realme and Member of the House of Peeres, and every Peere of the Kingdome of Scotland or of the Kingdome of Ireland being of the Age of One and twenty yeares or upwards not haveing taken the said Oathes and made and subscribed the said Declaration, and every Member of the said House of Co[m]mons not haveing as aforesaid taken the said Oathes and made and subscribed the said Declaration, and every Person now or hereafter convicted of Popish Recusancy who hereafter shall at any time after the said First day of December come, advisedly into or remaine in the presence of the Kings Majestie or Queens Majestie or shall come into the Court or House where they or any of them reside as well dureing the Raigne of His present Majestie (whose Life God long preserve) as dureing the Raigns of any His Royall Successors Kings or Queens of England shall incurr and suffer all the paines, penalties forfeitures and disabilities in this Act mentioned or contained, unlesse such Peere Member or Person soe convicted doe respectively in the next Terme after such his comeing or remaining take the said Oathes and make and subscribe the said Declaration in His Majestyes High Court of Chauncery betweene the houres of Nine and Twelve in the Forenoone.