Section VIII Proviso for Quakers who may make Declaration of Fidelity of 1 W. & M. Sess. 1. c. 18.

Provided neverthelesse That whereas certaine Persons Dissenters from the Church of England co[m]monly called Quakers and now knowne to bee such doe scruple the takeing any Oath itt shall bee sufficient for every such person to make and subscribe the Declaration of Fidelity contained in an Act made in the last Parliament entituled An Act for exempting Their Majesties Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certaine Laws which declaration any Two or more of the Commissioners appointed for the Execution of this Act are hereby impowered and required to take and every such person soe doeing shall not bee liable to or chargeable with any of the double Rates aforesaid.