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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-tax-act-1693/section-XLIX",
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  "legislation": "aep/WillandMar/5/1",
  "legislation_title": "Land Tax Act 1693",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-tax-act-1693",
  "path": "section/XLIX",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XLIX",
  "heading": "Proviso for Quakers subscribing the Declaration of Fidelity 1 W. & M. Sess. 1. c. 18.",
  "text": "Provided neverthelesse That whereas certaine persons Dissenters from the of England Co[m]monly called Quakers and now knowne to be such do scruple the taking of any Oath it shall be sufficient for every such person to make and subscribe the declarac[i]on of Fidelity contained in an Act made in the Parliament held in the First yeare of their Majesties Reigne entituled An Act for exempting their Majesties Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the penalties of certain Laws which Declarac[i]on any Two or more of the Co[m]missioners appointed for the execuc[i]on of this Act are hereby impowered and required to take and every such person so doeing shall not be liable to or chargeable with any of the double Rates aforesaid.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Church O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X2",
      "text": "interlined on the Roll."
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/5/1/section/XLIX",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:24:12.257240+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}