Section II

Lord Mayor and Justices of London may tender Declaration of 30 Car. II. st. 2. c. 1. to reputed Papists.

Bee it Enacted by the King and Queens most Excellent Majesties by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authoritie of the same That for the better discovering and amoveing all Papists and reputed Papists out of the said Cities and Ten miles of the same it shall and may be lawfull and it is hereby Required that the Lord Mayor of London for the time being and every Justice of the Peace X1of the City of London and for the City and Liberties of Westminster and Burrough of Southwarke and of the Countyes of Midlesex Surrey Kent and Sussex within their respective Countyes Cityes Boroughes and Limitts doe from time to time cause to be Arrested and brought before him every person or persons not being a Merchant Forreigner within the said Cities or within Ten miles of the same as are or are reputed to be Papists and tender unto him the Declaration mentioned in the Statute made in the Thirtyeth Yeare of King Charles the Second Entituled An Act for the more effectuall preserveing the Kings Person and Government by disableing Papists from Sitting in either House of Parlyament And in case such person upon such tender refuse audibly and solemnely to repeate make and subscribe the said Declaration and shall after such refusall remaine continue or be within the said City or Cityes or Ten miles distance from the same That in every such Case he or she shall forfeite and suffer as a Popish Recusant Convict by the Lawes already established shall or may forfeit or suffer