C17

Sacrament Certificates                                         1 vol.

 

     The Test Act 1673 (25 Charles II c.2) required every person holding civil or military office to receive the sacrament in the Church of England within six months of appointment, and to deliver to Quarter Sessions a certificate to that effect, signed by the Minister, Churchwardens and two witnesses. 

     At front: printed list of certificates, giving names of office-holders, Minister, Churchwardens, witnesses.

 

 

Dec. 1747 - Oct. 1827

 

C18

Office-holders’ Oaths and Declarations            3 docs.

 

     Under the same Act and later ones, office-holders were required to take oaths of allegiance, supremacy, abjuration, and to make a declaration against transubstantiation.  For the form of these see Leighton, pp. 181, 182.

 

1788 - 1830

 

C18/1

Jul. 1788 - Jul. 1819

 

 

 

C18/2

May 1794 - Oct. 1818

 

 

 

C18/3

Apr. 1820 - Jul. 1830

 

 

 

 

C19

Militia Rolls for the Hundred of Oswestry       2 docs.

 

     Oaths of allegiance of persons enrolled in the Militia.  Give persons ballotted (ie those chosen by ballot to serve), persons enrolled (ie the ballotted ones or substitutes chosen by them), occupations, places of residence, dates of enrolment.

 

1769 - 1772

 


C19/1

Sep. 1769 - Jun. 1771

 

 

 

C19/2

Sep. 1772

 

 

 

 

C20

Justices’ Oaths                                                 41 items

 

1840 - 1948

 

 

     Section 104 of Municipal Corporations Act 1835 (5 & 6 William IV c.76) and later Acts required Justices to take the oaths provided, before acting. 

     /1-8 are files recording declarations by several Justices; /9-41 are declarations by individual Justices.

 

 

 

C20/1

Nov. 1840 - Nov. 1849

 

 

 

C20/2

Mar. 1850 - Nov. 1856

 

 

 

C20/3

Nov. 1859 - Nov. 1870

 

 

 

C20/4

Nov. 1871 - Nov. 1878

 

 

 

C20/5

Apr. 1879  - Jan. 1893

 

 

 

C20/6

Jul. 1893 - Nov. 1904

 

 

 

C20/7

Nov. 1905 - Nov. 1916

 

 

 

C20/8

Nov. 1917 - Nov. 1922, Jun. 1928, and Recorder’s oaths Mar. 1933, Jun. 1937

 

 

 

C20/9

Apr. 1923

 

 

 

C20/10

May 1923

 

 

 

C20/11

Dec. 1931

 

 

 

C20/12

Nov. 1934

 

 

 

C20/13-24

Jul. 1937

 

 

 

C20/25

Nov. 1937

 

 

 

C20/26

Nov. 1938

 

 

 

C20/27

Feb. 1943

 

 

 

C20/28

Nov. 1943

 

 

 

C20/29-31

Mar. 1944

 

 

 


C20/32

Nov. 1944

 

 

 

C20/33

Dec. 1944

 

 

 

C20/34

Nov. 1945

 

 

 

C20/35

Nov. 1946

 

 

 

C20/36

Nov. 1947

 

 

 

C20/38-40

[1948?]

 

 

 

C20/41

May 1949

 

 

 

 

C21

Constables’ Oaths                                               1 vol.

 

Apr. 1861 - Mar. 1865

 

 

     Oaths sworn by Constables on taking office.

 

 

 

 

C22

Oaths of Mayors of Oswestry Borough and Chairmen of Oswestry Rural District Council, and related letter                                                     4 items

 

 

 

1871 - 1923

 

 

     Oaths of allegiance and judicial oaths on taking office.

 

 

 

C22/1

Oaths.                                                                   1 file

     Includes circular letter from Whitehall, 20 Feb. 1895, stating that a Chairman of an Urban or Rural District Council, being by virtue of the Local Government Act 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73) an ex-offico Justice of the Peace in which the District is situate, may take the oath of allegiance and judicial oath before two or more County Justices in Petty Sessions.

 

1895 - 1923

 

C22/2

 

Circular letter.

     From Whitehall, stating that Mayors entering on office in the present month may take the oaths before any two Justices of the Peace of the Borough.

 

4 Nov. 1871

 

C22/3

 

Letter.

     From Whitehall, stating that the provisions expressed in /2 still apply.

 

22 Nov. 1872

 

C22/4

Letter.

     From R.S. Clease, Deputy Clerk of the County Council of Salop, stating that the Secretary of State has concluded that a Chairman of a District Council should take the oaths afresh at each re-election.

 

9 Mar. 1896