...elected, or chosen into any corporation, who should not within one year next before such election, have taken the sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the rites of the Church of England.' In 1672, was passed the Test Act, avowedly for the purpose of preventing dangers which...

...Stra. 1193. in the court of sessions : that he had not within one year before the supposed election taken the sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the rites of the Church of England, nor has he at any time since done it, nor can he in conscience take the same, nor was he...

...that no one should be elected to any corporate office, who had not, within a year before his election, taken the sacrament of the Lord's supper according to the rites of the Church of England, — laying down a rule which was soon to be applied to all civil offices and public employments....

...was liable Dissenters, to a fine for not serving a corporate office which he was disqualified from serving by the Corporation Act, he not having taken...Lord's supper according to the rites of the Church of England?" This arose out of an ingenioua scheme to raise a tax upon the Dissenters in the City of...

...act mentioned or expressed, that shall not have, within one year next before such election or choice, taken the sacrament of the lord's supper, according to the rites of the church of England, and that in default thereof every such placing, election and choice shall be void : be...

...other port towns in England, Wales, and Berwick-upon-Tweed, unless he had, within one year preceding, taken the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, according to the rites of the Church of England. (7) But «tat. 9 Geo. 4. c. 17. after reciting stat. 13 Car. 2. st ii. cl, stat. 25 Car....

...one year before, and in the other within three months after entering upon such place or office, have taken the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the rites of the Church of England. " The clause in the Corporation Act requiring the Sacramental Test, was not an original...

...offices of magistracy and trust in corporate towns, who had not, within a year before their appointment, taken the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, according to the rites of the Church of England. This Act affected all Nonconformists alike, and virtually confined all corporate offices...

...a Dissenter was liable to a fine for not serving a corporate office which he was disqualified from serving by the Corporation Act, he not having taken...Lord's supper according to the rites of the Church of England ?" This arose out of an ingenious scheme to raise a tax upon the Dissenters in the City...

...English ground ;" whereas it merely allowed bills to be brought in for naturalizing Jews without their having taken the sacrament of the Lord's supper according to the rites of the Church of England, or, in other words, to allow that a Jew might be naturalized by act of parliament. After...