Section LV LV. Proviso for Quakers to subscribe the Declaration of Fidelity. Stat. I W. & M. Sess. I. c. 18X1

Provided nevertheless That whereas certain Persons Dissenters from the Church of England commonly called Quakers and now known to be such do scruple the taking of an Oath it shall be sufficient for any such Person to make and subscribe the Declaration of Fidelity contained in an Act made in the Parliament held in the First Year of Their said Majesties Reign intituled An Act for exempting Their Majesties Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws which Declaration any Two or more of the Commissioners appointed for executing this Act are hereby impowered and required to take And every Person so doing shall not be liable to or chargeable with any of the double Rates aforesaid