Section XVI The King may allow 12 Nonjuring Clergymen Subsistence out of their Benefices.

Provided alwayes and bee it Enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That it be left to the King to allow to such of the Clergy as shall refuse the Oaths p[re]scribed by this Act as he shall thinke fitt not exceeding the number of Twelve an Allowance out of their Ecclesiasticall Benefices or Promotions for their Subsistance not exceeding a Third Part and to continue dureing His Majesties Pleasure and noe longer.¹]