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Test Act
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Test Acts 1673 & 1678.
Test Act 1673
The Corporation Act 1661 (13 Cha. 2 St. 2. c. 1) was followed by the Test Act 1673 (25 Cha. 2. c. 2) (the long title of which is "An act for preventing dangers which may happen from popish recusants"). This act enforced upon all persons filling any office, civil, military or religious, the obligation of taking the oaths of supremacy and allegiance and subscribing to a declaration against transubstantiation and also of receiving the sacrament within three months after admittance to office. The oath for the Test Act 1673 was: