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Header: left 558 Form of Oaths. hor 111. Such Persons, and Members of the AND be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That ['all Ministers of the established Church of Scotland. and all and every Person and Persons who is or are Pastor or Pastors Minister or Ministers of any Episcopal established Church, Congregation in Scotland shall be obliged and are hereby required on or before the First Day of August next to to Oaths herein mentioned. come to take and subscribe the following Oaths in such Manner and under such Penalties as all Officers Civil and Military in Scotland are obliged to take the Oath recited in the Fourteenth Act of the Sixth Year of Her Stat. 6 Ann. c. 66. Majesties Reign intituled An Act for the better Security of Her Majesties Person and Government And that all § 1. Ministers of the established Church of Scotland hereafter be admitted into their respective Churches or Benefices and all and every Person and Persons who shall hereafter be Pastor or Pastors Minister or Ministers of any Episcopal Congregation shall before such Admission or Exercise of their respective Functions be obliged [to ¹] take and subscribe likewise the following Oaths in the same Manner and under the same Penalties above. mentioned IV. Doors of Assembly for Worship not to be locked, &c. V. Scotch Act, 1695, le mod repealed. A Majesties Dominions and Countries thereunto belonging and I do solemnly and sincerely declare that I do believe in my Conscience the Person pretended to be Prince of Wales during the Life of the late King James and since his Decease pretending to be and taking upon himself the Stile and Title of King of England by the Name of James the Third or of Scotland by the Name of James the Eighth or the Stile and Title of King of Great Britain hath not any Right or Title whatsoever to the Crown of this Realm or any other the Dominions thereunto belonging And I do renounce refuse and abjure any Allegiance or Obedience to him And I do swear that I will bear Faith and true Allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Anne and Her will defend to the utmost of my Power against all traiterous Conspiracies and Attempts whatsoever [which shall be made¹] against Her Person Crown or Dignity And I will do my best Endeavour to disclose and make known to Her Majesty and Her Successors all Treasons and traiterous Conspiracies which I shall know to be against her or any of them And I do faithfully promise to the utmost of my Power to support maintain and defend the Succession of the Crown against him the said James and all other Persons whatsoever as the same is and stands settled [by an Act intituled An Act declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and settling the Succession of the Crown] to Her present Majesty and the Heirs of Her Body being Protestants And as the same [by One other Act intituled An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject] is and stands setled and entailed after the Decease of Her Majesty and for Default of Issue of Her Majesty to the Princess Sophia Electress and Dutchess Dowager of Hanover and the Heirs of Her Body being Protestants And all these Things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear according to these express Words by me spoken and according to the plain and common Sense and Understanding of the same Words without any Equivocation Mental Evasion or Secret Reservation whatsoever And I do make this Recognition Acknowledgment Abjuration Renunciation and Promise heartily willingly and truly upon the true Faith of a Christian. gindi So help me God.] lo smailu sds ni besaq A di Bagan PROVIDED always That the Assembly of Persons for religious Worship in the Episcopal Meetings be held with Doors not locked barred or bolted during such Assembly and that nothing herein contained shall be construed to exempt any of the Persons frequenting the said Episcopal Congregations from paying of Tythes or other Parochial Duties to the Church or Minister of the Parish to which they belong and in which they reside o't ods of of bea No Penalty incurred by resorting to Episcopal Meetings, &c. VI. Baptisms to be registered. Anne mbyo VII. Banna of Marriages to be published. 20110° ANNE, c. 10. TAHO I A, B. do sincerely promise and swear That I will be faithful and bear true Allegiance to Her Majesty Queen So help me God. 2013 AND whereas since the Establishment of the Presbyterian Government in Scotland some Laws have been made by the Parliament in Scotland against the Episcopal Clergy of that Part of the United Kingdom and particularly an Act passed in the Parliament held in the Year One thousand six hundred ninety five intituled Act against wamba irregular Baptisms and Marriages by which all Episcopal Ministers who were turned out of their Churches are prohibited to baptize any Children or to solemnize any Marriage upon Pain of perpetual Imprisonment or Banishment Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Act abovementioned be hereby repealed and annulled and that in all Time coming no Person or Persons shall incur any Disability Forfeiture or Penalty whatsoever upon account of his or their resorting to the said Episcopal Meetings held for the Worship of God and that it shall be free and lawful for all the Subjects in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland to assemble and meet together for Divine Service without any Disturbance and to settle their Congregations in what [Town'] or Places they shall think fit to choose except Parish Churches and for the Episcopal Ministers not only to pray and preach in the Episcopal Congregations but to administer the Sacraments and marry without incurring any Pain or Penalty whatsoever Any Law or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding. 11 bord 1910 and abou e do valy and I A, B, do truly and sincerely acknowledge profess testifie and declare in my Conscience before God and the World That our Sovereign Lady Queen Anne is lawful and rightful Queen of this Realm and of all other Her A.D.1711. PROVIDED always That the Parents who have their Children christned by Episcopal Ministers be hereby obliged to enter the Birth and Christning of their Children in the Register-Books for Christnings belonging to the bite bogilido ydowed b respective Parishes in which they live Oyuwste aida d of anoise 19 sinds p AND provided likewise That no Episcopal Minister or Ministers residing within that Part of the United Kingdom called Scotland presume to marry any Persons but those whose Bans have been duly published Three several Lords Days in the Episcopal Congregations which the Two Parties frequent and in the Churches to which they annexed to the Original Act in a separate Schedule.

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