In Engllsh law. The statute 13 Car. II. SL 2, c. 1; by whlch it was provided that no person should there-after be elected to office iu any corporate town that should not, within one year pre-vlously, have taken the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, according to the rites of the Church of England; and every person so elected was also required to take tl|e oaths of allegiance and supremacy. 3 Steph. Comm. 103, 104; 4 Bl. Comm. 58. This statute is now repealed. 4 Steph. Comm. 51L
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
