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Section LXXIX Officers of Universities not appearing before the Commissioners to take the Oaths of 1 W. & M. Sess. 1. c. 8.

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

to pay 8s. in the Pound of their Profits; to be levied as other Monies by this Act.

Provided always and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That every Master and Fellow of every Colledge and Hall (who are now resident in this Kingdom) and every Reader and Officer and Minister of either of the Universities shall voluntarily appear before the said Commissioners or any Three or more of them before the time limitted for returning the Assessments to bee made by virtue of this Act bee expired and take the Oaths required and menc[i]oned to bee taken by an Act made in the first yeare of their Majesties Reigne entituled An Act for the abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths which Oaths the said Co[m]missioners are hereby impowered and required to administer and make an entry and memorandum thereof in some book to bee kept for that purpose and upon neglect or not appeareing and takeing the said Oaths as aforesaid Eight shillings in the pound of the profitts which he or they X1may have received had hee or they taken the said oaths for or by reason of all and every stipend wages salary or profitts whatsoever ariseing or growing due in respect of the said several places or imployments in the said Universities Colleges or Halls shall be actually paid to their Majesties for the use of the Warr X2to be levied collected and received in such manner as the rest of the money given by this Act.

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X1

Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: might O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]

X2

Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: and O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]