The English nonconformity as under King Charles II and King James II truly stated…

1. We Agree and Resolve, in every Division of this County, to require sufficient Sureties for the good Abearing and Peaceable Behaviour of all such as we may justly suspect, or that we can receive any credible Information against, that they have been at any Conventicles and Unlawful Meetings, or at any Factious ⟨image 6⟩or Seditious Clubs; or that have by any Discourses discovered themselves to be disaffected to the present Established Government, either in Church or State; or that have been the Authors or Publishers of any Seditious Libels; or that shall not in all things duly conform themselves to the present Established Government.

1. We Agree and Resolve, in every Division of this County, to require sufficient Sureties for the good Abearing and Peaceable Behaviour of all such as we may justly suspect, or that we can receive any credible Information against, that they have been at any Conventicles and Unlawful Meetings, or at any Factious ⟨image 6⟩or Seditious Clubs; or that have by any Discourses discovered themselves to be disaffected to the present Established Government, either in Church or State; or that have been the Authors or Publishers of any Seditious Libels; or that shall not in all things duely conform themselves to the present Established Government.

2. Because we have a sort of False Men, and more perfidious than professed Fanatics, who either wanting Courage to appear in their own shape, or the better to bring about their Treasonable Designs, privately Associate with, and encourage the Seditious Clubs of the Sectaries, and with them Plot heartily against the Government; and yet, that they may pass unsuspected, sometime appear in the Church with a false show of Conformity, only to save their Money, and the better to serve their Faction: that we may (if possible) distinguish and know all such dangerous Enemies, we will strictly require all Church-wardens and Constables, at all our Monthly Meetings, to give us a full account of all such as do not every Sunday resort to their own Parish-Churches, and are not at the beginning of Divine Service, and do not behave themselves Orderly and Soberly there, observing all such decent Ceremonies as the Laws enjoin: And that they likewise Present unto us the Names of all such as have not received the Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper in their own Parish-Churches Thrice in the Year.