Section IX Proviso for the Peerage;

and for Creation Money, Impost, Pensions, &c. Exception; and for Estates of Inheritance granted by the Crown; and for Pensions granted to Persons instrumental in preserving the King at Worcester; and for Grants of certain Offices of Inheritance to Persons refusing the Oaths, &c. who are to appoint Deputies, who must take the Oaths, &c. and subscribe Declaration.; Deputies to be approved by the King, under His Privy Signet.; Proviso for Peers.

Provided alwayes That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend, be judged, or intepreted any wayes to hurt or prejudice the Peerage of any Peere of this Realme or to take away any right, power, priviledge or profit, which any person (being a Peere of this Realme) hath or ought to enjoy by reason of his Peerage either in time of Parlyament or otherwise, or to take away Creation money or Bills of Impost nor to take away or make void any Pension or Sallary granted by his Majestie to any person for valuable and sufficient consideration for Life Lives or Yeares other then such as relate to any Office or to any place of Trust under his Majestie and other then Pensions of bounty or voluntary Pensions; nor to take away or make void any Estate of Inheritance granted by his, Majestie or any his Predecessors to any person or persons of or in any Lands, Rents, Tythes or Hereditaments not being Offices, nor to take away or make void any Pension or Sallary already granted by his Majestie to any person who was Instrumentall in the happy preservation of his Sacred Majestie after the Batle at Worster in the yeare One thousand six hundred fifty one untill his Majestyes Arrivall beyond the Seas; nor to take away or make void the grant of any Office or Offices of Inheritance, or any Fee, Sallary or Reward for executeing such Office or Offices, or thereto any way belonging, granted by his Majestie or any his Predecessors to, or enjoyed, or which hereafter shall be enjoyed by any person or persons who shall refuse or neglect to take the said Oathes, or either of them, or to receive the Sacrament, or to subscribe the Declaration mentioned in this Act in manner therein expressed, Neverthelesse soe as such person or persons haveing or enjoying any such Office or Offices of Inheritance doe or shall substitute and appointe his or their sufficient Deputy or Deputyes, (which such Officer or Officers respectively are hereby impowered from time to time to make or change, any former Law or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding), to exercise the said Office or Offices untill such time as the person or persons haveing such Office or Offices shall voluntarily in the Court of Chauncery before the Lord Chauncellour or Lord Keeper for the time being, or in the Court of Kings Bench, take the said Oathes and receive the Sacrament according to Law and subscribe the said Declaration, and soe as all and every the Deputie and Deputyes soe as aforesaid to be appointed, take the said Oathes, receive the Sacrament, and subscribe the said Declaration from time to time as they shall happen to be soe appointed in manner as by this Act such Officers whose Deputyes they be, are appointed to doe; and soe as such Deputyes be from time to time approved of by the X1Kings Majestie under his Privy Signet; but that all and every the Peeres of this Realme shall have, hold and enjoy what is provided for as aforesaid, and all and every other person or persons before mentioned, denoted or intended within this Provisoe shall have, hold and enjoy what is provided for as aforesaid, notwithstanding any incapacitie or disability mentioned in this Act.