The Quakers Act 1695 was an Act of the Parliament of England. The Act allowed Quakers to substitute an affirmation where the law required an oath except in giving evidence in a criminal case or serve on a jury or hold any office of profit from the Crown. The Act also allowed legal proceedings to be taken against Quakers before a Justice of the Peace for refusing to pay tithes if it did not exceed £10. The Act would have expired in seven years but, in 1702, Parliament extended it for another eleven years by the Affirmation by Quakers Act 1701. In 1715, it was made permanent and applied also to Scotland.[1]