Section III Justices of Peace to certify Subscribers and Refusers to the Court of King's Bench.
Person certified to have refused, not appearing and taking Declaration in the next Term or Sessions, adjudged a Popish Recusant Convict.
And it is hereby further Enacted. That every Justice of Peace shall and doe certifie all and every Subscription X1or before him by vertue of this Act taken and likewise the Names of all and every Person refuseing to repeate take make or subscribe as aforesaid upon tender under the Hand and Seale of the said Justice into the Court of Kings Bench the next Terme or else at the next Quarter Sessions that shall be of or for the County or Place where such takeing subscribing or refusall shall happen And if the said Person soe refuseing and certifyed shall not within the next Terme or Sessions after such refusall appeare in the Court of Kings Bench or Sessions where such Certificate shall be Returned and in open Court audibly and solemnely repeate take make and subscribe the Declaration aforesaid and Indorse or Enter his soe doeing upon the Certificate soe Returned shall be from the time of such his neglect or refusall taken esteemed and adjudged a Popish Recusant Convict and as such to forfeite and be proceeded against.
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