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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.
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