Section X Offender taking Oaths and subscribing Declaration, discharged from Penalties.; but not to restore such Person to any Office filled upon Voidance by this Act, &c. nor to discharge the said Penalty of £500.

Provided neverthelesse That if any Offender contrary to this Act shall at any time after such Offence take the said Oathes and make and subscribe the said Declaration in his Majestyes High Court of Chauncery and in the manner aforesaid Every such person shall be from thenceforth freed and discharged of and from all Seizures Penaltyes and Losses which he might otherwise sustaine or beare for or by reason of being a Popish Recusant Convict by vertue of this Act, and shall bee freed and discharged from all Disabilityes and Incapacityes incurred thereby soe as such Freedome and Discharge extend not to restore any such person to any Office or Place filled and supplyed upon voidance by this Act, not to any other Office till after the expitation of One yeare from the takeing the said Oath and makeing the Declaration aforesaid, nor to make void or at any time discharge the said Forfeiture of Five hundred pounds incurred as aforesaid.