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Exhibit 515

Act for preventing Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants (Test Act), 25 Charles II c. 2

Exhibit 515 ยท Statute

Act for preventing Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants (Test Act), 25 Charles II c. 2

shall be ipso facto adjudged uncapeable and disabled in Law to all intents and purposes whatsoever to have occupy or enjoy the said Office

Requires all holders of civil or military office or royal pay to take the oaths of supremacy and allegiance and receive the sacrament according to the usage of the Church of England within three months, with a certificate signed by the minister and churchwarden; those who refuse are disabled from the office, and one who acts anyway is barred from suing, from guardianship and legacies and forfeits five hundred pounds.

Source
Parliament of England (Charles II)
Date
1673
Quoted from
Statutes of the Realm V, pp. 782-83 (OCR)
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://archive.org/details/statutes_of_the_realm_5
Accessed
2026-11-09
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit
Note
The title and preamble name popish recusants; the sacramental test applied to every officeholder.

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.