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Exhibit 512

Act for the well Governing and Regulating of Corporations, 13 Charles II stat. 2 c. 1

Exhibit 512 ยท Statute

Act for the well Governing and Regulating of Corporations, 13 Charles II stat. 2 c. 1

taken the Sacrament of the Lords Supper according to the Rites of the Church of England

Requires municipal officers to take the oaths and a declaration and, afterwards, no one to be elected to those offices who has not within the year taken the sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the rites of the Church of England; the preamble aims that the succession in corporations be 'perpetuated in the hands of persons well affected to His Majesty and the established Government'.

Source
Parliament of England (Charles II)
Date
1661
Quoted from
Statutes of the Realm V, p. 323 (OCR)
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://archive.org/details/statutes_of_the_realm_5
Accessed
2026-11-09
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit

Cited by

Finding REL-2.6
Primary record Between 1661 and 1673 Parliament required officeholders to receive the sacrament according to the Church of England and fined nonconforming ministers and attenders at conventicles with part of the fines going to informers, and the Toleration Act of 1689 excused Protestant dissenters from the attendance penalties while saving tithes, parochial duties and ecclesiastical-court prosecution.