# Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy Act 1688, Section VIII: Master and Fellows of Colleges Professors, &c.


Neglecting, &c.; Suspended; and not taking within Six Months,; Office void.
And bee it further enacted That if any Person or Persons now being Master Governour Head or Fellow of any Colledge or Hall in either of the two Universities or of any other Colledge or Master of any Hospitall or Schoole or Professor of Divinity Law Physicke or other Science in either of the said Universities or in the City of London shall neglect or refuse to take the Oaths by this Act appointed to be taken in such Manner and before such Persons as by this Act is directed before the First day of August in the Yeare One thousand six hundred eighty nine Every such Person and Persons soe neglecting or refuseing shall be and is and are hereby declared and adjudged to be suspended from the Execution of his or their Office and Employment and from his or their Mastershipp Government Fellowship and Professorship respectively for the space of Six Months to be accounted from the said First day of August, And if the said Person or Persons (soe haveing neglected or refused) shall not within the said space of Six months take the said Oaths in such Court or Place and before such Persons and in such Manner as they ought to have taken the same before the said First day of August That in every such Case the said Office and Employment Mastership Government Fellowship and Professorship of every Person soe neglecting or refuseing shall be void and is hereby adjudged void.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/1/8/section/VIII (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/oaths-of-allegiance-and-supremacy-act-1688/section-VIII
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