Section VII Persons not bred up in the Popish Religion breeding up or suffering their Children to be bred up in the Popish Religion, Disability.

Children disabled until Conformity.

And bee it further enacted That if any person or persons not bred up by his or their Parent or Parents from their Infancy in the Popish Religion and professing themselves to be Popish Recusants shall breed up, instruct or educate his or their Childe or Children or suffer them to be instructed or educated in the Popish Religion; every such person being thereof convicted shall be from thenceforth disabled of bearing any Office or place of Trust or Proffitt in Church or State; And all such Children as shall be soe brought up instructed or educated, are and shall be hereby disabled of bearing any such Office or place of Trust or Proffitt, untill he and they shall bee perfectly reconciled and converted to the Church of England and shall take the Oathes of Supremacy and Alleigiance aforesaid before the Justices of the Peace in the open Quarter Sessions of the County or Place where they shall inhabite, and thereupon receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper after the Usage of the Church of England, and obtaine a Certificate thereof under the Hands of two or more X1of the said Justices of the Peace.