furer, Lord Prefident of the Council, Lord Privy Seal, Lord High Admiral, and Chief Juftice of the Queen's Bench, at that Time being, to be Lords Juftices of Great Britain, and impower'd in the Name of fuch Succeffor to act as if prefent, &c.

XII. That the Perfon, who by the Limitations aforefaid, is next to fucceed to the Crown, &c. is impower'd at any Time, during her Majesty's Life, by three Inftruments under Hand and Seal, revocable at Pleasure, to nominate fo many Perfons, natu ral born Subjects of England, to be added to the aforefaid Lords Juftices, to act as fully, as if herein particularly nam'd, the major Part affembled, not to be less than five, &c.

XIII. The faid three Inftruments fhall be tranfmitted into Great Britain to the next Succeffor's Refident, whofe Credentials are to be inroll'd in Chancery, and to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Lord Chancellor, or Keeper, c. clofe feal'd up, and to be feverally put into feveral Covers, to be feverally feal'd up, with three feveral Seals of the faid Refident, Archbishop, and Lord Chancellor, or Keeper, c. each to have one lodg'd in their Hands; and if the faid Nomination is to be revok❜d, then, the faid Inftruments to be deliver'd up by the Perfons in whofe Cuftody foever they happen to be; which, after her Majefty's Demife, c. fhall immediately be open'd and read before the Privy Council, and afterwards inroll'd, &c.

XIV. The Perfons with whom the faid Inftruments are depofited, their Executors, c. or any other in whofe Cuftody they fhall happen to be, opening the faid Inftruments, or neglecting to produce them before the Privy Council, incur a Pramu nire, as inflicted by the faid Statute of Pramunire.

XV. One of the said Inftruments produc'd before the Privy-Council, thall be as effectual as all; and if there be no Nomination, then the Lords Juftices aforefaid, or any five, are invefted with the Power above-mention'd.

XVI. Any Nomination already made by the Succeffor, fignify'd by fuch Inftruments depofited as

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aforefaid, . thall be as effectual for conftituting the Perfons fo nominated Lords Juftices of England, to be Lords Juftices of Great Britain, as if fuch Nomination were made pursuant to this A&t.

XVII. The Lords Juftices not to diffolve the Parliament order'd to fit, without exprefs Direction from fuch fucceeding Queen or King; nor to give the Royal Affent to any Bill, &c. for repealing or altering the A&t made 13 & 14 Car. II. viz. An Act for the Uniformity of Publick Prayer, &c. on Penalty of High Treafon, c.

XVIII. The Lords Juftices before they act, to take the Oaths exprefs'd in 3 W. & M. cap. 8. and the Oath in this Act, before the Privy Councii; and all the Members of both Houses of Parliament, Privy Council, &c. and all Officers and Perfons in Places and Employmen s, c. continu'd by this Act, are to take the laft mention'd Oath.

XIX. The Perfons that thall be Lords Juftices by this Act, to be Perfons deem'd as executing Offices of Truft, &c. and requir'd to do all Acts requifite by the Laws, c. to qualify themselves.

XX. After the Demife of her Majefty without Iffue of her Rody, inftead of the Oath appointed to be taken by the Act of the Firft of her Majesty's Reign, cap. 22. the Oath mention'd in this Act to be taken, c.

XXI. The next fucceeding Queen or King, affixing any Seal to any Writing, &c. before their Arrival in Great Britain, to execute any Regal A&t, &c. the fame to be as effectual, as if pafs'd under the Great Seal of Great Britain,. &c.

XXII. If after her Majefty's Demife, before the Arrival of any fucceeding Queen, or King, in Great Bitain, the Lords Juftices call a Parliament, by Writs Tefted in their Names, fuch Parliament not to be diffolv'd by fuch Arrival, but shall proceed after without new Summons.

XXIII. If any the aforefaid feven Officers, other than the Lord Treasurer, be in Commiffion at her Majefty's Demife, the Firft Commiffioner to be

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one of the Lords Juftices of Great Britain, &c. if there be no Lord Treasurer, and the Office of Treafurer of the Exchequer fhall be in Commiffion, then the First Commiffioner to be one of the Lords Juftices.

XXIV. That after the Diffolution of this prefent Parliament, no Perfons who have any Office or Place, c. whatsoever under the Crown, in their own Name, or in others in Truft, a Commiffioner, Secretary or Receiver of Prizes, c. or Controller of Accounts of the Army, or Commiffioner of Transports, or fick and wounded, Wine Licenfes, nor Agent of any Plantation, or Commiffioner of the Navy in any the Out-Parts, or any Penfions from the Crown during Pleafure, thall be Members in any Parliament hereafter.

XXV. Persons chofen Members after the Diffolution of this Parliament, accepting_any Office of Profit from the Crown, during Continuance as Members, their Election to be void, and a new Writ iffu'd, &c. yet capable of being elected again. XXVI. To prevent, for the future, too great a Number of Commiffioners for executing Offices, no greater Number thall be conftituted, than have been employ'd at fome Time before the ift Day of this prefent Seffion.

XXVII. This Act not to extend to any Member being an Officer in the Navy, or Army, who thall receive any new or other Commiffion,

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XXVIII. Perfons hereby declar'd incapable to vote in any Parliament hereafter, and afterwards return'd as Members, c. fuch Election to be void; and if they prefume to fit or vote, to forfeit 500%

All the former Acts for fettling the Succeffion to the Crown of England in the Proteftant Line, were confirm'd, and thereby extended to Scotland, by the fecond Article of the A&t for an Union of the two Kingdoms of England and Scot and; which receiv'd the Royal Affent in the fifth Year of her

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Jate Majefty's Reign. The faid fecond Article is as follows:

II. That the Succeffion to the Monarchy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, and of the Dominions thereunto belonging, after her moft Sacred Majefty, and in Default of Iffue of her Majefty, be, remain, and continue to the moft excellent Princefs Sophia, Electorefs, and Dutchefs Dowager of Hanover, and the Heirs of her Body, being Proteftants, upon whom the Crown of England is fettled, by an Act of Parliament made in England in the 12th Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King William III, entitled, An Act for the farther Limitation of the Crown, and better fecuring the Rights and Liberties of the Subjet. And that all Papifts, and Perfons marrying Papifts, fhall be excluded from, and for ever incapable to inherit, poffefs, or enjoy the Imperial Crown of Great Britain, and the Dominions thereunto belonging, or any Part thereof: And in every fuch Cafe, the Crown and Government fhall from Time to Time, defcend to, and be enjoy'd by fuch Perfon, being a Proteftant, as fhould have inherited and enjoy'd the fame, in Cafe fuch Papists, or Perfon marrying a Papift, was naturally dead, according to the Provifion for the Defcent of the Crown of England, made by another Act of Parliament in England, in the firft Year of the Reign of their late Majefties King William and Queen Mary, entitled, An Act declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, and fettling the Succeffion of

the Crown.

Thefe Extracts are a fufficient Proof of his Majefty's undoubted Title to the Crown of these Realms, and therefore 'twas necessary to give them. The Princefs Sophia, indeed, muft have fucceeded the late Queen, had not Death prevented her but few Days before, viz. on the 8th of June, on the Evening of which Day, as the was taking the Air in the Garden of the Palace of Herenbaufen, the was feiz'd with a Fit of an Apoplexy, and dy'd in

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the Arms of the Electoral Princefs, (now Princess of Wales) and the Countess of Pickbourg, who were walking with her, before any other Perfon could come up to her Affiftance. She was the 5th and youngest Daughter of Frederick V. Elector Palatine of the Rhine, King of Bohemia, and of Elizabeth of England, only Daughter of James I. and born at the Hague, October 3, 1630, fo that he was 83 Years, 8 Months, and 5 Days old, when the expir'd.

Some thort Time before her Death, Baron Schutz, Envoy from the Elector of Brunswick, deliver'd a Memorial to the Miniftry here, demanding, that the then Duke of Cambridge, now Prince of Wales, might have his Writ of Summons to Parliament; a plain Proof of the Duke's Intention to come over into England, which the Court here highly refented, as appears by the following Letters which the Queen wrote to the Princefs Sophia, and that Duke, which are as follows.

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The Queen's Letter to the Princefs Sophia.

Madam, Sifter, Aunt,

Ince the Right of Succeffion to my Kingdoms has been declar'd to belong to you, and your Family, there have always been difaffected Perfons, who, by particular Views of their own Intereft, have enter'd into Measures to fix a Prince of your Blood in my Dominions, even whilft I am yet living. I never thought, till now, that this Project would have gone fo far, as to have made the leaft Impreffion on your Mind; but as I have lately perceiv d, by publick Rumours which are industriously fpread, that your Electoral Highness is come into this Sentiment, it is of Importance, with refpect to the Succeffion of your Family, that I thould tell you, fuch a Proceeding will infallibly draw along with it, fome Confequences that will be dangerous to the Succeffion itself, which is not fecure any other Ways, than as the Prince who actually wears the Crown, maintains her Authority and Prerogative. There are here (such is our Misfortune)

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