VI.

T H A T in all Courts, all Persons of all Persuasions may freely appear

in their own Way, and according to their own Manner, and there

personally plead their own Cause themselves; or if unable, by their

Friend: And the first Process shall be the Exhibition of the Complaint

in Court, fourteen Days before the Trial; and that the Party complained

against may be fitted for the same, he or she shall be summoned, no less

than ten Days before, and a Copy of the Complaint delivered him or her,

at his or her Dwelling-house. But before the Complaint of any Person be

received, he shall solemnly declare in Court, That he believes in his

Conscience his Cause is just.

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