Section VIII What Oath the Commissioners, &c. are to take.

1 W. & M. Sess. 1. c. 8.

And be it further enacted That the said Co[m]missioners and every of them and every Officer to be appointed under them shall before Two or more of the said Co[m]missioners take an Oath for the due and faithfull execuc[i]on of theire respective Offices and Employments and shall likewise take the Oaths appointed by an Act of Parliament made in the First yeare of theire Majesties Raigne entituled An Act for the abrogateing the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointeing other Oaths which said Oaths the said Co[m]missioners or any Two of them are hereby impowered to administer And that noe person nor X1persons shall be capable of intermeddleing with the execuc[i]on of the powers and authorityes by this Act granted or any of them other then the power of administering the aforesaid Oaths to theire fellow Co[m]missioners untill they shall have taken the said Oaths as aforesaid:-