Section IX Persons refusing to take Oaths when tendered;

Imprisonment for Three Months; or Payment of Fine,; for the Use of the Poor.; And again refusing Three Months afterwards,; Imprisonment for Six Months; or Payment of Fine, to the Poor.; And Oaths again tendered or Sureties for good Behaviour.; Refusing; Punishment.; Refusing to make and subscribe Declaration of 30 Car. II. st. 2. c. I.; Deemed a Popish Recusant Convict.

And bee it further enacted That if any such other Person or Persons (other then the Persons specially above mentioned) shall refuse to take the said Oathes or either of them when tendered to him or them by any Persons lawfully authorized as is aforesaid to administer or tender the same the Person or Persons soe tendring the said Oathes or either of them shall Committ the said Person X1or Persons soe refuseing to the Common Goale or House of Correction there to remaine without Baile or Mainprize for the space of Three months unlesse such Offender shall pay downe to the said Person or Persons soe tendring the said Oathes or either of them such Summe of Money not exceeding Forty Shillings as the said Person and Persons soe tendring the said Oaths or either of them shall require such Offender to pay for his or her said refusall which Money shall be paid to the Churchwardens or Overseers of the Poore for the reliefe of the Poore of the Parish or Place where such Offender did last inhabite And if at the end of Three months after such refusall the Person and Persons soe refuseing shall againe refuse to take the said Oaths or either of them when lawfully tendred to him or them as is aforesaid the said Person or Persons soe tendring the said Oaths or either of them shall Committ the said Person and Persons soe refuseing to the Common Goale or House of Correction there to remaine for the space of Six Months unlesse every such Offender shall pay downe to the Person or Persons soe tendring the said Oaths or either of them such Summe of Money not exceeding Ten Pounds nor under Five pounds as the said Person or Persons soe tendring the said Oaths or either of them shall require such Offender to pay for his or her said Second refusall The said Money to be disposed in manner aforesaid And unlesse every such Offender shall become bound with two sufficient Sureties with Condition to be of the Good Behaviour and alsoe to appeare at the next Assizes or Generall Goale delivery to be holden for the County Liberty or Place where such Offender shall then inhabit or reside at which Assizes or Goale-delivery the said Oaths shall be againe tendred to every such Offender by the Justices of Assizes or Goaledelivery in their open Assizes or Goale-delivery And if the said Offender shall refuse to take the said Oaths or either of them when tendred to him or her by the said Justices of Assizes or Goale-delivery as is aforesaid Then every Person and Persons soe refuseing shall be and is and are hereby adjudged incapable of any Office Civill or Military within this Kingdome and shall likewise be and remaine bound to the Good Behaviour untill he or they doe take the said Oaths And in case such Person or Persons shall refuse alsoe to make and subscribe the Declaration mentioned in the Statute made in the Thirtyeth Yeare of the Raigne of King Charles the Second Entituled An Act for the more effectuall Preserveing the King's Person and Government by disableing Papists from Sitting in either House of Parliament such Person and Persons shall suffer all Paines Penalties Forfeitures and Disabilities as a Popish Recusant Convict and be taken and deemed a Popish Recusant Convict to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever