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ACT OF SETTLEMENT 1700

ACT OF SETTLEMENT 1700 - LONG TITLE

arl. 12 & 13 Gul.3. p.I. n.2. PAn Act for the further Limitation
|of the Crown and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the
Subject.{1} >Recital of Stat. 1 W. & M. sess.2 c.2 s.2. [ 1. ]{2}
T HE most excellent Princess Sophia Electress and Dutchess dowager
of Hanover daughter of the most excellent Princess Elizabeth late
Queen of Bohemia daughter of our late sovereign lord King James the
First of happy memory be and is hereby declared to be the next in
succession in the protestant line to the imperiall crown and dignity
of the [pa said] realms of England France and Ireland with the
dominions and territories thereunto belonging after his Majesty and
the Princess Ann of Denmark and in default of issue of the said
Princess Ann and of his Majesty respectively and that from and
after the deceases of his said Majesty our now sovereign lord and
of her royall Highness the Princess Ann of Denmark and for default
of issue of the said Princess Ann and of His Majesty respectively
the crown and regall government of the said kingdoms of England
France and Ireland and of the dominions thereunto belonging with the
royall state and dignity of the said realms and all honours stiles
titles regalities prerogatives powers jurisdictions and authorities to
the same belonging and appertaining shall be remain and continue to
the said most excellent Princess Sophia and the heirs of her body
being protestants And thereunto the said lords spirituall and
temporall and commons shall and will in the name of all the people
of this realm most humbly and faithfully submitt themselves their
heirs and posterities and do faithfully promise that after the
deceases of His Majesty and her royal Highness and the failure of
the heirs of their respective bodies to stand to maintain and
defend the said Princess Sophia and the heirs of her body being
[pa protestants] according to the limitation and succession of the
crown in this Act specified and contained to the utmost of their
powers with their lives and estates against all persons whatsoever
that shall attempt any thing to the contrary. T PS0800 pa
Interlined on the Roll 2. {3} P ROVIDED always that all and every
person and persons who shall or may take or inherit the said crown
by vertue of the limitation of this present Act and is are or
shall be reconciled to or shall hold communion with the see or
church of Rome or shall profess the popish religion or shall marry
a papist shall be subject to such incapacities as in such case or
cases are by the said recited Act provided enacted and established.
And that every King and Queen of this realm who shall come to and
succeed in the imperiall crown of this kingdom by vertue of this
Act shall have the coronation oath administered to him her or them
at their respective coronations according to the Coronation Oath Act,
1688 and shall make subscribe and repeat the declaration in the Act
first above recited mentioned or referred to in the manner and form
thereby prescribed. >Further provisions for securing the religion,
laws, and liberties of these realms. A> 3. {4} A ND whereas it i
[{6}That after the said limitation shall take effect as aforesaid no
person born out of the kingdoms of England Scotland or Ireland or
the dominions thereunto belonging (although he be . . .{7} made a
denizen (except such as [oa are]
born of English parents)) shall be capable to be of the privy
councill or a member of either House of Parliament or to enjoy any
office or place of trust either civill or military or to have any
grant of lands tenements or hereditaments from the Crown to himself
or to any other or others in trust for him.] ...

That no pardon under the great seal of England be pleadable to an
impeachment by the commons in Parliament.

ACT OF SETTLEMENT 1700 - SECT 4

4. AND whereas the laws of England are the birthright of the
people thereof and all the Kings and Queens who shall ascend the
throne of this realm ought to administer the government of the same
according to the said laws and all their officers and ministers
ought to serve them respectively according to the same The said
lords spirituall and temporall and commons do therefore further
humbly pray that all the laws and statutes of this realm for
securing the established religion and the rights and liberties of
the people thereof and all other laws and statutes of the same now
in force may be ratified and confirmed And the same are ratified
and confirmed accordingly.






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