Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy Act 1688

Oaths Act 1688
Oaths Act 1688
Act of Parliament
	Parliament of England
Long title	An Act to Regulate the Administracion of the Oathes required to be taken by Commission or Warrant Officers imployed in their Majestyes Service by Land by Vertue of an Act made this present Session of Parliament Entituled An Act for the Abrogating of the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths.
Citation	1 Will. & Mar. c. 25; (Ruffhead: 1 Will. & Mar. Sess. 1. c. 25);
Dates
Royal assent	25 July 1689
Repealed	15 July 1867
Other legislation
Repealed by	Statute Law Revision Act 1867
Relates to	Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy Act 1688;
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy Act 1688
Act of Parliament
	Parliament of England
Long title	An Act for the Abrogating of the Oathes of Supremacy and Allegiance and Appointing other Oathes.
Citation	1 Will. & Mar. c. 8; (Ruffhead: 1 Will. & Mar. Sess. 1. c. 8);
Dates
Royal assent	24 April 1689
Repealed	13 July 1871
Other legislation
Repealed by	Promissory Oaths Act 1871
Relates to	Oaths Act 1688
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy Act 1688 (1 Will. & Mar. c. 8) was an Act of the Parliament of England passed in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution. The Act required all office-holders, Members of Parliament and clergy to take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy for the new monarchs, William III and Mary II. The Archbishop of Canterbury, William Sancroft, five bishops and approximately four hundred lower clergy refused to take the oaths because they believed their oaths to James II were still valid. The Act thus triggered the nonjuring schism in the Church of England. The non-jurors were deprived of their offices.^[1]

Notes

↑ E. Neville Williams, The Eighteenth-Century Constitution. 1688-1815. Documents and Commentary (Cambridge University Press, 1960), p. 7.