{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/toleration-act-1688/section-XII",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/toleration-act-1688/section-XII.json",
  "legislation": "aep/WillandMar/1/18",
  "legislation_title": "Toleration Act 1688",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/toleration-act-1688",
  "path": "section/XII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XII",
  "heading": "Until Certificate produced, Justices to take Recognizance to produce same.",
  "text": "Provided alsoe and bee it enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That untill such Certificate under the Hands of six of his Congregation as aforesaid be produced and two Protestant Witnesses come to attest his being a Protestant Dissenter or a Certificate under the Hands of foure Protestants as aforesaid be produced the Justice of the Peace shall and hereby is required to take a Recognizance with two Sureties in the penall Summe of fifty pounds [to be levyed of his Goods and Chattells Lands and Tenements to the use of the King and Queens Majestyes their Heires and Successors1] for his produceing the same and if he cannot give such Security to committ him to prison there to remaine untill he has produced such Certificates or two Witnesses as aforesaid",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/1/18/section/XII",
    "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."
}