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5. Qualification.
That all Judges and Officers towards the Law, Common or Civil, who have deserted the Parliament, and adhered to the Enemies thereof, be incapable of any place of Judi∣cature or Office towards the Law, Common or Civil: and that all Serjeants, Counsellours and Attorneys, Doctors, Advocates and Proctors of the Law, Common or Civil, who have deserted the Parliament, and adhered to the Enemies thereof, be incapable of any practice in the Law, Common or Civil, either in publick or private, and shall not be ca∣pable of any Preferment or Imployment in the Commonwealth, without the Advice and Consent of both Houses of Parliament: and that no Bishop or Clergy-man, no Master or Fellow of any Colledge or Hall in either of the Universities or elsewhere, or any Master of School or Hospital, or any Ecclesiastical person, who hath deserted the Parliament, and adhered to the Enemies thereof, shall hold or enjoy, or be capable of any Prefer∣ment or Imployment in Church or Commonwealth, but all their said several Preferments, Places and Promotions, shall be utterly void, as if they were naturally dead; nor shall they otherwise use their Function of the Ministry, without Advice and Consent of both Houses of Parliament: Provided that no Lapse shall incur by such Vacancy, until six months past after notice thereof.