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APPENDIX.

Declaration to be made by Members under stat. 30. Car. II. stat. 2. c. 1.

I, A. B. do solemnly and sincerely, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, that I do believe, that in the sacrament of the Lord's supper there is not any transubstantiation of the elements of bread and wine unto the body and blood of Christ, at or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever. 2. And that the invocation or adoration of the Virgin Mary or any other saint, and the sacrifice of the mass as they are now used in the church of Rome, are superstitious and idolatrous. 3. And I do solemnly in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, that I do make this declaration and every part thereof in the plain and ordinary sense of the words read unto me, as they are commonly understood by English protestants, without any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation whatsoever, and without any dispensation already granted me for this purpose by the pope, or any other authority or person whatsoever, or without any hope of any such dispensation from any person or authority whatsoever, or without thinking that I am or can be acquitted before God or man, or absolved of this declaration or any

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part thereof, although the pope or any other person or persons or power whatsoever, should dispense with or annul the same, or declare that it was null or void from the beginning.

Schedule of a Member's Qualification (referred to in the Oath required by stat. 33. Geo. 2. c. 20.)

THE lands, tenements, and hereditaments, whereby I make out my qualification to serve in the present parliament, do lie in the parishes of A. and B. in the county of C.; and in the parishes of D. E. and F. in the county of G.; and I do declare my estate in the same to be of the annual value of (if a knight of the shire, £600; and if a citizen or burgess, £300), above reprises.

See 18 Journ.

629.

Notice to a Petitioner whose Qualification it is intended to question.

To A. B. esqr. a petitioner to the honorable house of cominons, complaining of an undue election for the borough of C. PURSUANT to a resolution of the house of commons of the 21st of November, 1717, you are hereby required to give to and leave with the clerk of the house of commons, a rental or particular, signed by you, of the lands, tene

ments, and hereditaments, whereby you make out your qualification to serve in parliament, and if you have not been in possession thereof for three years before the late election, you are to insert, from what person, and by what conveyance, or act in law you claim and derive the same; and also the consideration, if any paid, and the names and places of abode of the witnesses to such conveyance and payment. C. D. :

Form of the Lord Steward's Deputation on a new Parliament.

HENEAGE carl of Aylesford, lord steward of his majesty's household, and one of his majesty's most honorable privy council, to all to whom these presents shall come; know ye, that I, the said lord steward, by virtue of my said office of lord steward, have constituted, named and appointed, and by these presents, do constitute, name, and appoint [about threescore and fifteen noblemen and gentlemen,] or any six, five, four, three, two, or one of them, my deputy and deputies, in my place and stead, to tender and administer the oaths mentioned in a statute made in the first year of the reign of their late majesties king William and queen Mary, intituled, An act for removing and preventing all questions and disputes concerning the assembling and sitting of this present parliament » according to the directions of the said statute, and of all and every other statute and statutes, directing the taking the said oaths before me, to all and every person and persons, who is,

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