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And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That any
Person who shall have obtained a Licence, and taken and sub-
scribed the Oaths and Test above appointed, and shall at any Time
after, during the Time of his or their keeping any Public or Private
School, or Seminary, or instructing any Youth as Tutor or School-
master, knowingly or willingly resort to, or be present at, any Con-
venticle, Assembly, or Meeting, for the Exercise of Religion, al-
though the Liturgy be there used, where his Majesty King George
shall not be there prayed for in express Words, except where such
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L.H.J.
Liber No. 48
May 22
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particular Offices of the Liturgy are used, wherein there are no
express Directions to pray for his Majesty and the Royal Family,
shall be liable to the Penalties in this Act, and shall from thence-
forth be incapable of keeping any Public or Private School, or Semi-
nary of Learning, or instructing any Youth as Tutor or School-
master. Provided always, That this Act, or any Thing therein
contained, shall not extend, or be construed to extend, to any Tutor
who shall be employed in the Family of any Roman Catholic within
this Province, to teach such Children only as are descended from
Roman Catholic Parents, or to deprive any Protestant Dissenter or
Dissenters whatsoever from the Benefits and Advantages they enjoy,
by the Toleration and Ease granted to such Dissenters by an Act of
Parliament, made in the first Year of the Reign of King William and
Queen Mary, entituled, An Act for exempting their Majesties Protes-
tant Subjects, dissenting from the Church of England, from the
Penalties of certain Laws; any Thing herein contained to the con-
trary thereof, in any wise, notwithstanding. Provided also, and be it
further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Person, who
shall have been convicted as aforesaid, and thereby made incapable
to teach or instruct any Youth as aforesaid, shall, after such Convic-
tion, conform to the Church for the Space of One Year, without
having been present at any Conventicle, Assembly, or Meeting, as
aforesaid (except as before excepted), and receive the Sacrament
of the Lord's Supper, according to the Rites and Usage of the Church
of England, at least three Times in that Year, every such Person or
Persons shall be again capable of having and using a Licence to teach
School, or to instruct Youth as a Tutor or School-master, he or they
also performing all that is made requisite thereunto by this Act.
And be it further Enacted, That if any Popish Priest or Jesuit shall
hereafter, by any Ways or Means whatsoever, put in practice, engage,
seduce, persuade, convert, and withdraw, or attempt or endeavour to
engage, seduce, or persuade, convert, and withdraw, any of his
Majesty's Subjects within this Province from their natural Obe-
dience to his Majesty, and from the Religion now by Law established
within his Majesty's Dominions, to the Romish Religion, or to move
them, or any of them, to promise any Obedience to any pretended
Authority of the See of Rome, or of any other Prince, State, or
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p. 293
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