Section CXVII Proviso for Quakers subscribing the Declaration of Fidelity, 1 W. & M. c.18. § 12.

Provided neverthelesse, That whereas certaine Persons, Dissenters from the Church of England, commonly called Quakers, and now knowne to be such, doe scruple the takeing of an Oath, it shall be sufficient for any such Person to make and subscribe the Declaration of Fidelity, contained in an Act made in the Parliament held in the First Yeare of Their said Majesties Reigne, intituled, An Act for exempting Their Majesties Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England, from the Penalties of certaine Lawes; Which Declaration any Two or more of the Commissioners appointed for the Execution of this Act are hereby impowered and required to take; And every Person soe doeing, shall not be liable to, or chargeable with any of the double Rates aforesaid.