For preventing dangers which may happen from popish recusants and
quieting the minds of his Majesty's good subjects:--Be it enacted That
all and every person or persons, as well peers as commoners, that shall
bear any office or offices military or civil, or shall receive any pay,
salary, fee, or wages, by reason of any patent or grant from his
Majesty, or shall have command or place of trust from or under his
Majesty ... shall ... in public and open court ... take the several
Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance ... and shall also receive the
Sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the usage of the Church of
England at or before the first day of August in the year of our Lord one
thousand six hundred and seventy-three, in some parish church, upon some
... Sunday, immediately after divine service.
And ... all persons ... that ... refuse to take the said oaths and
sacrament ... shall be _ipso facto_ adjudged ... disabled in law to ...
enjoy the said office or offices or any profit or advantage pertaining
to them; and every such office ... is hereby adjudged void.
And ... all persons ... that ... refuse to take the said oaths or ...
sacrament ... and yet after such neglect or refusal shall execute any of
the said offices ..., every such person ... shall forfeit the sum of
five hundred pounds.
And ... at the same time when the persons concerned in this act shall
take the aforesaid Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance, they shall
likewise ... subscribe this declaration ... "I [name] do declare that I
do believe that there is not any transubstantiation in the sacrament of
the Lord's Supper, or in the elements of Bread and Wine, at or after the
consecration thereof by any person whatsoever."