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A92493 Act for taking the oath of alledgeance and the assurance. Edinburgh, the twentie third day of May, 1693 Scotland. Convention of Estates. 1693 (1693) Wing S1105B; ESTC R229971 4,511 4

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Oath and Subscribe the same and the Assurance in manner foresaid betwixt and the Twenty day of June next for which end all the Inferiour Courts are hereby dispensed with to Sit to the effect foresaid excepting Electors of Members of Parliament and Members of the Commissions above-mentioned and these giving voice in calling of Ministers and such as have voice in Electing of Deacons of Trades who are hereby appointed to take the said Oath and subscribe the same with the Assurance as follows viz. The Electors of Members of Parliament before they elect members of Commissions before they exerce the Commissions And such as have a voice in calling of Ministers or electing of Deacons of Trades before they give voice in calling of Ministers or electing of Deacons of Trades and also excepting the Conservator and the Factors of the Staple-ports who are to Swear the said Oath and subscribe the same and the Assurance betwixt and the fifteenth day of August next And the said Oath and Assurance Sworn and Subscribed as above are to be recorded in the Registers of the respective Courts and Meetings and the extracts thereof under the Clerks hands to be reported to Their Majesties Privy Council under the pain of Deprivation of the Clerk for such as are appointed to Swear and Subscrive betwixt and the twentieth of June to be reported betwixt and the first of August next and for the rest within twenty days after their said swearing and subscribing And it is further Statute and Ordained that all Persons who shall hereafter be advanced to or imployed in any of the foresaids Offices Trusts or Stations shall at their Entry unto and before their exercing thereof Swear the said Oath and subscribe the same and the Assurance in manner foresaid to be Recorded in the Registers of the respective Courts and reported to Their Majesties Privy Council within the space of fourty days after taking of the same and exercing the foresaids Offices Trusts Priviledges and Imployments which Reports are to be received and taken in by the Clerks of Privy Council gratis And it is hereby Statute and Ordained That all Persons who shall obtain any free Gift or Donations from the Lords of Their Majesties Privy Council Thesaury or Exchequer or shall present any Signature of Pension Remission or containing a de novo damus or of any other casuality except Gifts of Escheats are to take the said Oath and Assurance before obtaining the said Gift or passing the said Signature certifying such of the foresaids Persons as are or shall be in any publick Office Trust or Imployment or who shall own or exerce the same without taking the said Oath and Assurance in manner foresaid they shall be deprived ipso facto of their saids Offices Trusts and Imployments and Ministers provided to Kirks shall be deprived of their Benefices or Stipends and Preachers not provided to Kirks shall be punished by Banishment or otherways as the Council shall think fit and all the foresaid Tacksmen shall be punished as the Privy Council shal think fit And farther that they and all other Persons whether above ranked or not who shall not Swear the said Oath and Subscribe the same and the Assurance shall not be allowed to keep any Horses above an hundred Merks-price nor any sort of Arms more than a Walking-sword certifying such as shall be found to have Horses and Arms contrair to this Provision either in their own or in the keeping of others that both the Owner and the Keeper shall incur the Penalty of one Thousand Merks the one half to the Informer and the other to their Majesties And Their Majesties with Consent foresaid Authorizes and Impowers the Lords of Privy Council to take such further effectual Methods for Disarming these Persons and seasing of their Horses above the foresaid value as they shall judge necessary As like ways they impower the Council to call before them all or any Heretor or other Persons of whom they shall think fit whether above ranked or not and to put the said Oath and Assurance to them and in case of their Refusal to proceed against them by Fining Confining Imprisonment or Banishment as they shall see cause the Fine if they be Heretors to be the double of their Cess or Supply and further if the Council shall think fit not exceeding an years valued Rent and for others not Heretors the third part of their escheatable Goods by and attour the other Penalties contained in the thirty eight Act of the second Session of this current Parliament It is also hereby enacted that the said Oaths of Alledgiance and Assurance are in no case to be imposed or taken severally but joyntly declaring hereby that these who refuse the one shall be holden as refusing both And Their Majesties with Advice foresaid recommends to their Privy Council to see this Act put to due and vigorous Execution with all diligence And it is hereby declared that the foresaid general Power granted to the Council is to endure until the next Session of Parliament allanarly And Lastly it is hereby provided that such as have already taken and subscribed the said Oath and subscribed the Assurance shall not be obliged by vertue hereof to take and subscribe the same again in the same Capacity The Oath of Alledgiance I A. B. Do sincerely Promise and Swear that I will be Faithful and bear true Alledgiance to Their Majesties King WILLIAM and Queen MARY So help me GOD. The Assurance I A. B. Do in the sincerity of my Heart Assert Acknowledge and Declare that Their Majesties King WILLIAM and Queen MARY are the only Lawfull undoubted Soveraigns of this Realm as well de jure That is of Right King and Queen as de facto That is in the Possession and Exercise of the Government And therefore I do sincerely and faithfully Promise and Engage that I will with Heart and Hand Life and Goods maintain and defend Their Majesties Title and Government against the late King James and his Adherents and all other Enemies who either by open or secret Attempts shall Disturb or Disquiet Their Majesties in the Possession and Exercise thereof Extracted forth of the Records of Parliament by TARBAT Cls. Registri God save King VVilliam and Queen Mary Edinburgh Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to their most Excellent Majesties Anno 1693.