{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/toleration-act-1688/section-XI",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/toleration-act-1688/section-XI.json",
  "legislation": "aep/WillandMar/1/18",
  "legislation_title": "Toleration Act 1688",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/toleration-act-1688",
  "path": "section/XI",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XI",
  "heading": "How purged after Refusal of the Oaths.",
  "text": "Certificate of belonging to a Congregation, &c.\nProvided alwayes and bee it enacted by the authoritie aforesaid That in case any person shall refuse to take the said Oaths when tendred to them which every Justice of the Peace is hereby impowred to doe such person shall not be admitted to make and subscribe the two Declarations aforesaid though required thereunto either before any Justice of the Peace or at the Generall or Quarter Sessions before or after any Conviction of Popish Recusancy as aforesaid unlesse such person can within thirty one dayes after such tender of the Declarations to him produce two sufficient Protestant Witnesses to testifie upon Oath that they believe him to be a Protestant Dissenter or a Certificate under the Hands of foure Protestants who are conformable to the Church of England or have taken the Oaths and subscribed the Declaration abovementioned and shall alsoe produce a Certificate under the Hands and Seals of six or more sufficient Men of the Congregation to which he belongs owning him for one of them",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/1/18/section/XI",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:26:25.979506+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."
}