appointed; and after fuch reading thereof, fhould openly and publicly, before the congregation there affembled, declare his unfeigned affent and confent to the use of all things therein contained and prescribed, according to the form therein before appointed; and that all and every such person who fhould (without fome lawful impediment, to be allowed and approved by the Ordinary of the place) neglect or refufe to do the fame within the time aforefaid, or (in cafe of fuch inpediment) within one month after fuch impediment removed, should ipfo facto be deprived of all his faid ecclefiaftical benefices and promotions; and that from thenceforth it should and might be lawful to and for all Patrons and Donors of all and fingular the faid ecclefiaftical benefices and promotions, or any of them, according to their refpective rights and titles, to prefent or collate to the fame, as though the person or perfous fo offending or neglecting were dead.` And it was by the faid Act, amongst other things, further enacted, That every Parfon, Vicar, Curate, Lecturer, and every other perfon in holy orders, fhould, before his or their refpective admiffion to be Incumbent, or have poffeffion of any parfonage, vicarage, or any curate's place or lecture, fubfcribe the Declaration or Acknowledgment therein directed, before the respective Archbishop, Bishop, or Ordinary of the diocese, upon pain that all and every of the perfons aforementioned, failing in such subscription, should lofe and forfeit fuch refpective parfonage, vicarage, curate's place, or lecture, and fhould be utterly disabled and ipfo facto deprived of the fame; and that every such refpective parfonage, vicarage, curate's place, or lecture, fhould be void, as if fuch perfon fo failing were naturally dead; and that after fuch fubfcription made, every Parfon, Vicar, Curate, or Lecturer, fhould procure a certificate under the hand and feal of the refpective Archbishop, Bishop, or Ordinary of the diocefe, (who were thereby enjoined and required, upon demand, to make and deliver the fame,) and fhould publicly and openly read the fame, together with the Declaration or Acknowledgment therein mentioned, upon fome Lord's day within three months then next following, in his parifh-church. where he was to officiate, in the prefence of the congregation there affembled, in the time of divine fervice, upon pain that every person failing therein fhould lofe fuch parfonage, vicarage, or benefice, curate's place, or lecturer's place, refpectively, and fhould be utterly disabled and ipfo facto deprived of the fame; and that the said parfonage, parsonage, vicarage, or benefice, curate's place, or lecturer's place, fhould be void, as if he were naturally dead. And whereas doubts have arifen whether the allowance and approbation of any lawful impediment before mentioned doth extend to both the faid before-recited cafes, or whether any Archbishop, Bifhop, or other Ordinary, hath power by the faid Act to allow and approve of any lawful impediment, as to reading the faid laft-mentioned Certificate and Declaration within the time limited by the faid Act: for the obviating thereof, be it enacted by the King's most excellent Majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the Lords fpiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That every allowance and approbation of any lawful impediment already given and declared, or which fhall hereafter be given and declared, in purfuance of the faid Act, by any Archbishop, Bifhop, or Ordinary, to any perfon for or in refpect of not reading in the church, chapel, or place of public worship, belonging to his benefice or promotion, within two months next after that he fhall be in the actual poffeffion of the faid benefice or promotion, upon fome Lord's day, openly, publicly, and folemnly, the Morning and Evening Prayers, appointed to be read by and according to the faid Book of Common Prayer, and for or in refpect of not openly and publicly, before the congregation there affembled, declaring his unfeigned affent and confent to the use of all things therein contained and prescribed, fhall extend, and be conftrued to extend, to the not reading the faid laft mentioned Certificate and Declaration, although the fame be not mentioned in the faid allowance and approbation, for the like time as the faid allowance and approbation fhall extend to. 2. And whereas by an Act paffed in the thirteenth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, intituled, An Act for the Minifters of the Church to be of found Religion, it was, amongst other things, enacted, That every person who fhould be admitted to a benefice with cure, except that within two months after his induction he fhould publicly read the Articles therein mentioned, in the fame church whereof he fhould have cure, in the time of Common Prayer there, with declaration of his unfeigned affent thereunto, fhould be upon every fuch default, ipfo facto, · immediately deprived: and whereas it hath happened, and may hereafter happen, through fickness, or other lawful impediment, that divers perfons have been and may be hindered hindered from reading the faid Articles, and making the faid Declaration within the time directed by the said Act, and yet fuch perfon, after fuch fickness or other lawful impediment removed, hath read and may hereafter read the faid Articles, and make the faid Declaration; and it is reasonable that fuch persons fhould be deemed to have complied with the true intent and meaning of the faid Act; be it therefore further enacted, by the authority aforefaid, That every person who hath already read or who fhall hereafter read the faid Articles, and hath made or fhall hereafter make the faid Declaration, at the fame time that he did read or fhall hereafter read the Morning and Evening Prayer, and declare his unfeigned affent and confent to the ufe of all things therein contained and prefcribed, according to the directions of the faid in part recited Act of the thirteenth and fourteenth years of the reign of King Charles the Second, fhall be and is hereby declared and adjudged to have complied with the true intent and meaning of the faid Act of the thirteenth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, although the fame were not or may not be read within the space of two months after fuch perfon's induction into any benefice with cure ; and that every fuch perfon fhall, and he is hereby declared to be freed and difcharged from any deprivation or other forfeiture by virtue of the faid Act; any thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. 3. Provided always, That this Act fhall not extend to reftore any perfon to any parfonage, vicarage, or benefice, curate's place, or lecturer's place, which, for want of reading fuch Certificate and Declaration within the time directed by the said firft in part recited Act, or of reading the faid Árticles and Declaration concerning the fame, according to the faid laft-mentioned Act, hath been forfeited or become void, and is already filled up or enjoyed by any person or perfons whatsoever. I Will. & Mar. Cap. viii. Sect. 1-5. and 11-13. Extract of an Act for the abrogating of the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance, and appointing other Oaths. WH THEREAS by a Statute made in the first year of the reign of our late Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth, intituled, An Act to restore to the Crown the ancient Jurif diction : diction over the Eftate Ecclefiaftical and Spiritual, and abolifbing all foreign Powers repugnant to the fame, the perfons therein mentioned were obliged to take an Oath therein mentioned, commonly called the Oath of Supremacy and whereas by another Statute made in the third year of the reign of our late Sovereign Lord King James the First, intituled, An Act for the better difcovering and repreffing Popish Recufants, another Oath, commonly called the Oath of Allegiance or Obedience, was required to be taken by the perfons therein mentioned: 2. Be it enacted by the King's and Queen's most excellent Majefties, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords fpiritual and temporal, and the Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, that from henceforth no perfon whatsoever fhall be obliged to take the faid Oaths, or either of them, by force or virtue of the faid Statutes, or either of them, or any other Statute whatsoever; but that the faid Statutes, and every other Statute, for fo much only as concerns the faid Oaths, and the faid Oaths themselves, fhall be and are hereby repealed, utterly abrogated, and made void. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That the Oaths appointed by this prefent Act to be taken, and the Declaration likewise appointed by this prefent Act to be made, repeated, and subscribed, fhall, from and after the first day of May, in the year one thousand fix hundred eighty nine, be taken, made, repeated, and fubfcribed, by every fuch perfon and perfons as were appointed and required by any Act or Acts whatsoever, to take the faid abrogated Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance, or either of them, before fuch perfon or perfons as hereafter in this Act is expreffed; that is to fay, all and every Archbishop and Bishop that now is, and all and every perfon, of or above the degree of a Baron of Parliament, in their Majefties High Court of Chancery, or in their Majefties Court of King's Bench, in public and open Court, between the hours of nine of the clock and twelve in the forenoon, before the end of Trinity term next, or at the general Quarter Seffions to be holden for that county or place where he or they shall be, inhabit, or refide, in open Court, between the faid hours of nine and twelve of the clock in the forenoon, before the first day of August next, all which fhall be put on record in the respective Courts. 4. And all and every other fuch perfon and perfons fhall take the faid Oaths, and make, repeat, and subscribe the faid Declaration by this prefent Act required to be taken, made, made, and fubfcribed, before fuch perfon or perfons refpectively, as by any Act or Acts were authorized or impowered to tender the faid Oaths of Allegiance now abrogated and made void; which faid perfon or perfons fo respectively authorized to minifter or tender the faid Oaths and Declaration, are hereby required to minister and tender the fame accordingly. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That all perfons (other than fuch concerning whom other provifion fhall be made in this Act, or in any other Act of this prefent feffion of Parliament) that fhall hereafter be admitted into any office or employment ecclefiaftical or civil, or come into any capacity in refpect or by reason whereof they should have been obliged by any Statute to take the faid abrogated Oaths, or either of them, shall take the Oaths hereby appointed, in fuch manner, at fuch times, before fuch perfons, and in fuch courts and places, as they fhould or ought to have taken the faid former Oaths, or either of them, in case the fame had not been abrogated, as aforefaid. And that every such person who fhall neglect or refufe to take the fame, fhall incur and be liable to the fame penalties, forfeitures, difabilities, and incapacities, as by any fuch Statute was appointed, for or upon neglect or refufal to take the faid former Oaths hereby abrogated, or either of them. 11. And be it further enacted, That the Oath appointed by the Statute made in the thirteenth and fourteenth years of King Charles the Second, intituled, An Act for ordering the Forces in the feveral Counties of this Kingdom, the form and words of which Oath are in the fame Statute expreffed; and alfo fo much of a Declaration prefcribed in another Act made in the fame year, intituled, An Act for the Uniformity of Public Prayers, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies: and for establishing the form of Making, Ordaining, and Confecrating Bishops, Priefts, and Deacons, in the Church of England, as is expressed in these words, viz. I A. B. declare, That it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take arms against the King; and that I do abhor that traiterous pofition of taking arms by bis authority against his perfon, or against thofe that are commiffioned by bim: fhall not from henceforth be required or enjoined, nor any perfon fuffer any forfeiture, penalty, or lofs, by the not taking, |