According to the "Industrial and historical sketch of Fairfax County,
Virginia," (1907), in colonial times all county officials were
required to take the "Test Oath" denying belief in the
Transubstantiation of the Eucharist, a clause no Roman Catholic could
swear to.

Henry Wiencek

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