Section VI Sworn Servants to the King and Queen not having taken the Oaths and subscribed the Declaration of 25 Car. II. c.2. to take the said Oaths and subscribe the said Declaration at the times and in manner herein mentioned.

Refusing, & c. and yet coming into the Pertence; Disability, &c.

And bee it further enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That from and after the First day of December One thousand six hundred seaventy and eight every Person then being and who after that time shall be a sworne Servant to the Kings or Queens Majestie not haveing before that time duely taken the Oathes and made and subscribed the Declaration contained in an Act entituled An Act for pp[re]venting Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants shall take the said Oathes and make and subscribe the Declaration before expressed in His Majestyes High Court of Chauncery in the manner aforesaid either in the next Terme after the said First day of December or in the next Terme after any such person shall be soe sworne a Servant, or in case of lawfull impediment by Sicknes proved upon Oath and allowed to be such under the Hand of the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper for the time being then in the next Terme after such Impediment removed, And if any such Person shall refuse or neglect to doe the, same, and yet after such refusall or neglect shall advisedly come into or remaine in the presence of the Kings or Queens Majestie or shall come into the Court or House where they or any of them reside as well dureing the Raigne of His pp[re]sent Majestie as dureing the Raigns of His and their Royall Successors Kings or Queens of England and every of them, Every such Person shall be disabled to hold any Place as such sworne Servant and shall incurr and suffer all the Paines Penalties Forfeitures and Disabilities in this Act mentioned or contained.