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Q - Derbyshire County Quarter Sessions - 1558-1971
- RR - Quarter Sessions (registration): Religion and State Security - 1683-1854

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	Q/RR/1
Title	Sacrament Certificates
Date	1673-1828
Description	By the Test Act of 25 Ch II c 2 (1673) every person holding military or civil office, within six months of appointment, had to receive the Lord's Supper according to the usage of the Church of England and to deliver to Quarter Sessions a certificate to that effect signed by the minister, churchwardens and two witnesses. When taking the oaths of office, he was also to make a declaration denying the doctrine of transubstantiation. This Act was re-enacted a number of times with amendments and was repealed in 1828. The series is incomplete and within the earlier bundles there may be gaps.
Level	SubSeries
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Derbyshire County Quarter Sessions
Arrangement	Arrangement The sacrament certificates in the following list were arranged in bundles chronologically in the 19th century.

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