{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-act-1695/section-L",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-act-1695/section-L.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Will3/7-8/5",
  "legislation_title": "Taxation Act 1695",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-act-1695",
  "path": "section/L",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "L",
  "heading": "Proviso fur Quakers subscribing the Declaration of Fidelity, 1 W. &M. Sess. 1. c. 18.",
  "text": "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 taking of any Oath Itt shall be sufficient for any such Person to make and subscride the Declaration of Fidelity contained in an Act made in the Parliament held in the First Yeare of the Reigne of King William and Queen Mary intituled 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: subscribe O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/7-8/5/section/L",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:23:45.924459+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}