Qualified chapel

Priests who did not swear allegiance to George II, pray for him by name and register their Letters of Orders were forbidden to minister to more than four people ("the prescribed four") at any one time.

Penalties for lay people worshipping at Episcopalian services included being prevented from holding any public office, deprivation of the right to vote and being barred from admission to the universities and colleges.

[2] Nonjuring and qualified congregations gradually united, particularly after the 1804 Convocation of Laurencekirk where the Episcopal Church adopted the Thirty-Nine Articles.

The last separate qualified chapel, St Peter's in Montrose, Angus, founded in 1722,[3] only joined the Episcopal Church in 1920.

[2] Following the practice in the Church of England, qualified chapels installed organs and hired musicians, singing in the liturgy as well as metrical psalms, while the non-jurors had to worship covertly and less elaborately.