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17Car. II. c. 2. and; 22 Car. II. c. 1.; Taking the Oaths, &c. to be registered.; Meeting-Door to be unlocked.
And bee it further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid That noe person dissenting from the Church of England in Holy Orders or pretended Holy Orders or pretending to Holy Orders nor any Preacher or Teacher of any Congregation of dissenting Protestants that shall make and subscribe the Declaration aforesaid and take the said Oaths at the Generall or Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be held for the County Towne Parts or Division where such person lives which Court is hereby impowred to administer the same and shall alsoe declare his approbation of and subscribe the Articles of Religion mentioned in the Statute made in the thirteenth yeare of the Raigne of the late Queene Elizabeth Except the thirty fourth thirty fifth and thirty sixth and these words of the twentyeth Article [X1viz]t (the Church hath power to decree Rights or Ceremonies and Authority in Controversies of Faith and yet) shall be lyable to any of the paines or penalties mentioned in An Act made in the seventeenth yeare of the Raigne of King Charles the Second Intituled An Act for restraining Non Conformists from inhabiting in Corporations Nor the penalties mentioned in the aforesaid Act made in the two and twentyeth yeare of his said late Majesties Raigne for or by reason of such persons preaching at any Meeting for the Exercise of Religion Nor to the penalty of one hundred pounds mentioned in An Act made in the thirteenth and fourteenth of King Charles the Second Intituled An Act for the Uniformity of Publique Prayers and Administration of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies And for establishing the Forme of makeing ordaineing and consecrateing of Bishops Priests and Deacons in the Church of England for officiating in any Congregation for the Exercise of Religion permitted and allowed by this Act [X2Provided alwayes That the makeing and subscribing the said Declaration and the takeing the said Oaths and makeing the Declaration of Approbation and Subscription to the said Articles in manner as aforesaid by every respective person or persons herein before mentioned at such Generall or Quarter Sessions of the Peace as aforesaid shall be then and there entred of Record in the said Court for which six pence shall be paid to the Clerke of the Peace and noe more] Provided that such person shall not at any time preach in any place but with the doores not locked barred or bolted as aforesaid
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