An Act to substitute One Oath for the Oaths of Allegiance, Supremacy, and Abjuration; and for the Relief of Her Majesty's Subjects professing the Jewish Religion.
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An Act to substitute One Oath for the Oaths of Allegiance, Supremacy, and Abjuration; and for the Relief of Her Majesty's Subjects professing the Jewish Religion.
London: 23rd July 1858
Est: $700 - $1,000
PRICE REALIZED $700
Presenting an alternative version of the long-standing Parliamentary oath that would omit the phrase "upon the true Faith of a Christian," It was the passage of this Act of Parliament that finally enabled Lord Lionel Rothschild to take his seat in the House, the first Jew so privileged. See T.M. Endelman, The Jews of Britain (2000) p. 107.