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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 |
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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 |
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C18/1 |
Jul.
1788 - Jul. 1819 |
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C18/2 |
May
1794 - Oct. 1818 |
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C18/3 |
Apr.
1820 - Jul. 1830 |
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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 |
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C19/1 |
Sep.
1769 - Jun. 1771 |
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C19/2 |
Sep.
1772 |
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C20 |
Justices’ Oaths
41 items |
1840 - 1948 |
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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. |
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C20/1 |
Nov.
1840 - Nov. 1849 |
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C20/2 |
Mar.
1850 - Nov. 1856 |
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C20/3 |
Nov.
1859 - Nov. 1870 |
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C20/4 |
Nov.
1871 - Nov. 1878 |
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C20/5 |
Apr.
1879 - Jan. 1893 |
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C20/6 |
Jul.
1893 - Nov. 1904 |
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C20/7 |
Nov.
1905 - Nov. 1916 |
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C20/8 |
Nov.
1917 - Nov. 1922, Jun. 1928, and Recorder’s oaths Mar. 1933, Jun. 1937 |
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C20/9 |
Apr.
1923 |
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C20/10 |
May
1923 |
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C20/11 |
Dec.
1931 |
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C20/12 |
Nov.
1934 |
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C20/13-24 |
Jul.
1937 |
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C20/25 |
Nov.
1937 |
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C20/26 |
Nov.
1938 |
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C20/27 |
Feb.
1943 |
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C20/28 |
Nov.
1943 |
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C20/29-31 |
Mar.
1944 |
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C20/32 |
Nov.
1944 |
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C20/33 |
Dec.
1944 |
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C20/34 |
Nov.
1945 |
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C20/35 |
Nov.
1946 |
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C20/36 |
Nov.
1947 |
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C20/38-40 |
[1948?] |
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C20/41 |
May
1949 |
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C21 |
Constables’ Oaths
1 vol. |
Apr. 1861 -
Mar. 1865 |
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Oaths sworn by Constables on taking
office. |
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C22 |
Oaths of Mayors of
Oswestry Borough and Chairmen of Oswestry Rural District Council, and related
letter
4 items |
1871 - 1923 |
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Oaths of allegiance and judicial oaths
on taking office. |
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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 |
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C22/2 |
Circular
letter. From |
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C22/3 |
Letter. From |
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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. |
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