aforefaid, c. fhall be as effectual for conftituting the Ferfons fo nominated Lords Juftices of England, to be Lords Justices of Great Britain, as if fuch Nomination were made pursuant to this Act.

XVII. The Lords Juftices not to diffolve the Parliament order'd to fir, without exprefs Direction from fuch fucceeding Queen or King; nor to give the Royal Affent to any Bill, &c. for repealing or altering the Act made 13 & 14 Car. II. viz, An Alt for the Uniformity of Publick Prayer, &c. on Penalty of High Trea on, 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 Council; and all the Members of both Houfes of Parliament, Privy Council, c. and all Officers and Perfons in Places and Employments, c. continu'd by this Act, are to take the laft mention'd Oath.

XIX. The Perfons that fhall 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 Majesty without Iffue of her Body, inftead of the Oath appointed to be taken by the Act of the First of her Majefty'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 Act, 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 Britain, the Lords Juftices call a Parliament, by Writs Tefted in their Names, fuch Parliament not to be diffolv'd by fuch Arrival, but fhall 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

one

one of the Lords Juftices of Great Britain, &c. if there be no Lord Treafurer, 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 Tranfports, 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 Pleasure, fhall be Members in any Parliament hereafter.

XXV. Perfons chofen Members after the Diffolu tion 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 ft Day of this prefent Seffion.

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

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 5001.

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 Act for an Union of the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland; which receiv'd the Royal Affent in the fifth Year of her

late 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 Majesty, and in Default of Iffue of her Majefty, be, remain, and continue to the moft excellent Princess 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 Majefty King William III, entitled, An At for the farther Limitation of the Crown, and better fecuring the Rights and Liberties of the Subje. 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 shall 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 Papifts, 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 first 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 neceffary to give them. The Princess 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 Princefs of Wales) and the Countefs 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 fhe 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 Ministry 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 Princess Sophia, and that Duke, which are as follows.

The Queen's Letter to the Princess Sophia.

Madam, Sifter, Aunt,

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Ince the Right of Succeffior to my Kingdomshas 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 induftriously fpread, that your Electoral Highness is come into this Sentiment, it is of Importance, with refpect to the Succeffion of your Family, that I fhould 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 (fuch is our Misfortune)

a great many People that are feditiously difpos'd; fo I leave you to judge what Tumults they may be able to raife, if they thould have a Pretext to begin a Commotion. I perfwade myself therefore, you will never confent that the leaft Thing thould be done, that may disturb the Repose of me or my Subjects.

Open your felf to me with the fame Freedom I do to you, and propose whatever you think may contribute to the Security of the Succeffion, I will come into it with Zeal, provided that it do not derogate from my Dignity, which I am refolv'd to maintain. I am, with a great deal of Affection, &c.

St. James's,

May 19, 1714.

Superfcrib'd,

To my Sifter and Aunt, Electress
Dowager of Brunswick and
Lunenburgh.

The Queen's Letter to the (then) Duke of Cambridge, was to this Effect.

Coufin,

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N Accident which has happen'd in my Lord

fetting forward fo foon as he thought to have done, I cannot defer any longer letting you know my Thoughts, with Refpect to the Defign you have of coming into my Kingdoms. As the Opening of this Matter ought to have been first to me, fo I expected you would not have given Ear to it, without knowing my Thoughts about it: However, this is what I owe to my own Dignity, the Friendship I have for you, and the Electoral House to which you belong, and the true Desire I have that it may fucceed to my Kingdoms; and this requires of me that I thould tell you, that nothing can be more dangerous to the Tranquillity of my Dominions, and the Right of Succeffion in your Line, and confequently more difagreeable to

me,