Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy Act 1688

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Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy Act 1688
Act of Parliament
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Long title An Act for the Abrogating of the Oathes of Supremacy and Allegiance and Appointing other Oathes.
Citation 1 Will. & Mar. c. 8
  • (Ruffhead: 1 Will. & Mar. Sess. 1. c. 8)
Territorial extent  England and Wales
Dates
Royal assent 24 April 1689
Commencement 13 February 1689 [a]
Repealed13 July 1871
Other legislation
Amended by Statute Law Revision Act 1867
Repealed by Promissory Oaths Act 1871
Relates toOaths Act 1688
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted
Oaths Act 1688
Act of Parliament
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Long title An Act to Regulate the Administracion of the Oathes required to be taken by Commission or Warrant Officers imployed in their Majestyes Service by Land by Vertue of an Act made this present Session of Parliament Entituled An Act for the Abrogating of the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths.
Citation 1 Will. & Mar. c. 25
  • (Ruffhead: 1 Will. & Mar. Sess. 1. c. 25)
Territorial extent  England and Wales
Dates
Royal assent 25 July 1689
Commencement 13 February 1689 [b]
Repealed15 July 1867
Other legislation
Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1867
Relates toOaths of Allegiance and Supremacy Act 1688
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy Act 1688 (1 Will. & Mar. c. 8) was an act of the Parliament of England passed in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution that required all office-holders, Members of Parliament and clergy to take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy for the new monarchs, William III and Mary II. The Archbishop of Canterbury, William Sancroft, five bishops and approximately four hundred lower clergy refused to take the oaths because they believed their oaths to James II were still valid. The act thus triggered the nonjuring schism in the Church of England. The non-jurors were deprived of their offices. [1]

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References

  1. E. Neville Williams, The Eighteenth-Century Constitution. 1688-1815. Documents and Commentary (Cambridge University Press, 1960), p. 7.

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