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 that 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.E. Neville Williams, The Eighteenth-Century Constitution. 1688-1815. Documents and Commentary (Cambridge University Press, 1960), p. 7.
Subsequent developments Section 3 from "All and every Arch-Bishop" to end of that section, sections 6–8, ten, and 14 to the end of the act, were repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 59), which came into force on 15 July 1867.
The whole act was repealed by section 1 of, and part I of schedule one to, the Promissory Oaths Act 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 48), which came into force on 13 July 1871. Notes
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External links Text of the act (British History online)
See also Oath of Allegiance (United Kingdom) Oath of Supremacy