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Crewe MS/36/pp. 127–8
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‘The Test.’ [1675.]
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‘I A.B. do declare that it is not Lawful upon any pretence what soever to take Arms against the King, And that I do abhor that Traiterous Position of taking Arms by his Authority against his Person, or against those that are Commissioners by him, in pursuance of such Commissions, and I do Sweare that I will not at any time Endeavor the Alteration of the Government either in Church or State.’
This is the text of the declaration and oath proposed in the Test Bill introduced on 15 Apr. 1675. See Locke’s Essay concerning Toleration, etc., ed. Milton and Milton, pp. 81, 417–9.