Section XLIX Proviso for Quakers subscribing the Declaration of Fidelity 1 W. & M. Sess.1. c. 18.

Provided neverthelesse That whereas certaine persons Dissenters from the Church of England co[m]monly called Quakers and now knowne to be such doe scruple the takeing of any Oath it shall be sufficient for any such person to make and subscribe the declarac[i]on of fidelity conteined in an Act made in the Parliament held in the first yeare of the raigne of King William and Queene Mary intituled An Act for exempting theire Majesties Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the penalties of certaine Lawes which declarac[i]on any two or more of the Co[m]missioners appointed for the execuc[i]on of this Act are hereby impowered and required to take and every such person soe doeing shall not be lyable to or chargeable with any of the double rates aforesaid