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the Succession of the Crown to her present Majty and the
heirs of her body being protestants And as the same by one
Other Act Entituled an Act for the further Limittation of the

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Crown and better secureing the rights and Liberties of the
Subject is and stands Limitted after the Decease of her Majty
and for Default of Issue of her Majty to the princess Sophia
Electress and Dutchess Dowager of Hanover and the heirs
of her body being protestants And all these things I Doe
plainly & Sincerely Acknowledge And Swear According to
these Express words by me Spoken and According to the
plain and Comon Sence and understanding of the same words
without any Equivocation or Mentall Evasion or Secrett reser-
vation whatsoever and I Doe make this Recognition Acknowl-
edgemt Abjuration Renunciation and promise heartily willingly
and truly upon the true faith of a Christian. So help me God
And that without the takeing and Subscribing which Oath
no pson shall be Capable of holding Executeing or Enjoying
any Office or Trust within this Province Whatsoever.
And whereas by An Act of the Gen^ll Assembly of this prov-
ince made the Sixteenth Day of March in the year of Our
Lord one thousd Seven hundred and one Entituled an Act for

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Establishmt of Religious Worship in this pvince &c it was
Enacted that all Vestry men should subscribe the Association
before they should be Admitted to the Execution of that
Office,
But forasmuch as by the Death of his most sacred Majty
King William the third the Subscribing the said Association
is not Necessary to be Longer Continued,
Bee it therefore Enacted that such part thereof And
Clause in the before recited Act of Assembly which relates
to the Vestry mens Subscribing the Association and no more
is hereby repealed and Declared Void
And it is further Enacted by the Authority and Consent afd
that all and Every pson and psons that are at this psent time
Vestry men in this province and all Other pson or psons that
for the time to Come shall be Elected or Chosen Vestrymen
shall take the before recited Oath of Abjuration And that it
be Administred unto them According to the formes and
methods prescribed in the afd Act of Assembly for takeing the
oaths therein required to be taken And after the takeing such
Oath the pson soe Elected or Chosen shall be Deemed and
taken as one of the Vestry and not before.

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An Act for Limittation of Certaine Actions for Avoiding Suits
att Law.

fforasmuch as nothing can be more Essentiall to the Peace

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