{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-3-act-1688/section-XXXVII",
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  "legislation": "aep/WillandMarSess2/1/1",
  "legislation_title": "Taxation (No. 3) Act 1688",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-3-act-1688",
  "path": "section/XXXVII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XXXVII",
  "heading": "Persons of and above the Age of 16, &c. not having taken Oath of c. 8. ante, and being summoned by Commissioners, and not appearing;",
  "text": "Penalty, Double Rate.\nAnd bee it further Enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That every Person being of the Age of Sixteene years or upwards and being within this Realme at the time of the Execution of this Act who shall not before that time have taken the said Oathes mentioned and required to be taken by the said Act Entituled An Act for the Abrogating of the Oathes of Supremacy and Allegiance and Appointing other Oathes and upon Summons by Warrant under the Hand and Seale of any One or more of the Commissioners appointed by this Act shall refuse to take the said Oathes at the Time appointed in the said Warrant or shall neglect to appeare at such Time before the Commissioners in order to take the said Oathes (which Oathes the said Commissioners or any Two or more of them are hereby impowered and required to Administer) shall yield and pay unto Their Majestyes double the Summes and Rates which by force or vertue of any Clause in this Act before mentioned or contained he or she should or ought to pay or be charged with in manner as is before in this Act appointed touching Papists or reputed Papists to be Assessed Levyed Collected Answered Recovered and Paid in such Manner by such Wayes and Meanes and according to such Rules and Directions and under such Penalties and Forfeitures as are before in this Act expressed or appointed for and concerning the above mentioned Rates and Summes which are hereby intended to be doubled as aforesaid.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMarSess2/1/1/section/XXXVII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:26:46.277072+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."
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