Section III Proviso that such Persons, if in England before the Nativity of our Lord, or if beyond Sea within 40 Days after return to England, subscribe the Declaration

and procure a Certificate; and publicly read the same, together with the said Declaration, within the time herein mentioned.

Provided That every such Deane Canon Prebendary Master and Fellow of any Colledge, Hall or House of Learning and all Parsons Vicars and Curates and other Ecclesiasticall persons who are, or shall by vertue of this Act be restored to, or preserved in their said severall and respective Promotions shall before the Feast of the Nativitie of our Lord next ensueing if he be in England or if beyond the Seas within Forty dayes after his returne into England subscribe the said Declaration or Acknowledgement before the respective Archbishop Bishop or Ordinary of the Diocesse, or Vice Chauncellour aforesaid respectively, And that every such Parson Vicar Curate or Lecturer shall procure a Certificate under the Hand and Seale of the respective Arch-bishop Bishop or Ordinary of the Diocesse (who are hereby required and enjoyned upon demand to make and deliver such Certificate) And shall publiquely and openly reade the same together with the Declaration or Acknowledgement aforesaid upon some Lords day within three monethes X1then next following such Subscription in his Parish Church where he is to officiate in the presence of the Congregation then assembled in the time of Divine Service.