Section VII Persons under Peers of 16 Years, and having £300 and being within the Realm, and not having taken the Oaths of 1 W. & M. Sess. 1. c. 8.

which Commissioners are to administer, &c. charged double. 1 W. & M. Sess. 1. c. 8.

And bee it further enacted That every Person (except Women) under the degree of a Peer of this Realme and haveing an Estate of the value of Three hundred pounds as aforesaid and being of the Age of Sixteen yeares or upwards and being within this Realme att the time of the execution of this Act who have not already taken the Oaths hereafter mentioned to Their Majesties and who shall not voluntarily appeare before the said Commissioners or two or more of them within the time limited by this Act for heareing Appeals and take the Oaths menc[i]oed and required to bee taken by an Act made in the First yeare of Their Majesties Reigne entituled An Act for the abrogateing the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths (which Oaths the Co[m]missioners or any Two or more of them are hereby impowered and required to administer and make an Entry or Memorandum thereof in some Book to bee kept for that purpose) And every such person who shall neglect to appeare or shall not take the Oaths as aforesaid shall bee charged with and shall pay to Their Majesties double the sums which by force or virtue of any Clause in this Act hee should or ought to pay or bee charged with to bee levied collected answered recovered and paid in such manner and by such ways and meanes as are in this Act expressed and appointed for and concerning the Rates and su[m]ms hereby intended to bee doubled as aforesaid.