Section XXII Officers of Excise to take the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy, and the following Oath.

And be it Enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid that noe person or persons shall be capeable of intermedling with any Office or Imployment relating to the Excise untill he or they shall before two or more Justices of X1the Peace in the County where his or their Imployments shall be, or before one of the Barons of the Exchequer take the Oathes of Alleigiance and Supremacy which Oathes they have hereby power to administer together with this Oath following Mutatis mutandis

YOU shall sweare to execute the Office of truely and faithfully without Favour or Affection, and shall from time to time true Account make and deliver to such person or persons as his Majesty shall appoint to receive the same and shall take noe Fee or Reward for the Execution of the said Office from any other person then from his Majestie, or those whom his Majestie shall appoint in that behalfe,