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<HEAD>ACT Concerning the DECLARATION To be &s;igned by all per&s;ons in publick Tru&s;t.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>At <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the fifth day of <HI>September,</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and &s;ixty two.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_FOra&s;much as it hath plea&s;ed Almighty God, in His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Re&s;titution to His Royal Go|vernment, to re&s;tore this Kingdom to its ancient liberties and peace, and to deliver His <HI>Maje|&s;ties</HI> good Subjects from the&s;e mi&s;eries and bondage whereby they have been oppre&s;&s;ed, during the&s;e troubles; And the E&s;tates of Parliament, finding them&s;elves obliged in a due re&s;ent|ment of this mercy, and in di&s;charge of that duty they owe to God, to the Kings <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> to the publick peace of the Kingdom, and the good of His Subjects, To u&s;e all means for the due pre|&s;ervation of that peace and happine&s;s they now enjoy under His Royal Government; and to prevent and &s;uppre&s;&s;e every thing that may tend to the renewing or favouring of the&s;e cour&s;es, by which the late Rebellion hath been fomented and carryed on; And conceiving, that the imploying of per|&s;ons of found principles and entire loyalty, in all offices of Tru&s;t and places of publick Admini&s;tration, will con|duce much to the&s;e ends. Therefore, and for quieting the &s;pirits of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> good Subjects, and begetting a confidence in them of their &s;ecurity for the future, His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> hath thought fit, with advice and con&s;ent of His E&s;tates of Parliament, to Statute, Ordian and Enact; Likeas His <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> by the&s;e pre&s;ents, doth, with advice fore&s;aid, Statute, Ordain and Enact, That all &s;uch per&s;ons as &s;hall hereafter be called or admitted to any publick Tru&s;t or Office, under His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Government within this Kingdom; that is to &s;ay, to be Officers of State, Members of Parliament, Privy Councellors, Lords of Se&s;sion, Commi&s;sioners in Ex|chequer, Members of the Colledge of Iu&s;tice, Sheriffs, Stewarts or Commi&s;&s;aries, their Deputes and Clerks, Magi&s;trates and Council of Borroughs, Iu&s;tices of Peace and their Clerks, or any other publick Charge, Office and Tru&s;t within this Kingdom; &s;hall at and before their admi&s;sion to the exerci&s;e of &s;uch Places or Offices, publickly, in face of the re&s;pective Courts they relate to, &s;ub&s;cribe the Declaration underwritten: And that they &s;hall have no right to their &s;aid Offices or Benefites thereof, untill they &s;ub&s;cribe the &s;ame as &s;aid is; but that every &s;uch per&s;on who &s;hall offer to enter and exerce any &s;uch Office, before he &s;ub&s;cribe the De|claration, is to be repute and puni&s;hed as an u&s;urper of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Authority, and the place to be di&s;po&s;ed to another. Likeas His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> doth, with advice fore&s;aid, remit to His Commi&s;&s;ioner, to take &s;uch cour&s;e as he &s;hall think fit, how the&s;e who are pre&s;ently in office, may &s;ub&s;cribe the &s;aid Declaration. And it is hereby De|clared, that this Act is without prejudice of any former Acts, for taking the Oath of Alleagiance, and a&s;&s;erting the Royal Prerogative.</P>
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<P>_I <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI>Do &s;incerely affirm and declare, that I judge it unlawfull to Subjects, upon pretence of Reformation or other pretence what&s;oever, to enter into Leagues and Covenants, or to take up Armes again&s;t the King or the&s;e commi&s;&s;ionated by Him: And that all the&s;e Gatherings, Convocations, Petitions, Prote&s;tations, and erecting and keeping of Council-tables, that were u&s;ed in the beginning, and for carrying on, of the late troubles, were unlawfull and &s;edi|tious. And particularly, that the&s;e Oaths, whereof the one was commonly called <HI>The National Covenant,</HI> (as it was &s;worn and ex|plained in the year, one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and thirty eight, and thereafter) and the other entituled, <HI>A Solemn League and Covenant,</HI> were, and are, in them&s;elves, unlawfull Oaths, and were taken by, and impo&s;ed upon, the Subjects of this Kingdom, again&s;t the fundamental Laws and Liberties of the &s;ame. And that there lyeth no obligation upon me, or any of the Subjects, from the &s;aids Oaths, or either of them, to endeavour any change or alteration of the Government, either in Church or State, as it is now e&s;ta|bli&s;hed by the Laws of the Kingdom.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh</HI> Printed by <HI>Evan Tyler,</HI> Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1662.</P>
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