H.M. MARGRETHE II Valdemarsdatter
NOTE BOOK

120. WILLIAM III: STATUTES

BIO-SPHERE PRIMOGENITURE GENOCIDE IN THE PEACE OF ULTRETCH

Queen Anne of York

1702 -1714

KING GEORGE 1

KING GEOGE II

KING GEORGE III

EMPEROR WELHELM I

MAGNA GREACEA CHARTA

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120. WILLIAM III: STATUTES



(A) Bill of Rights (1689)



An act declaring the rights and liberties of the subject and settling the

succession of the crown. Whereas the lords spiritual and temporal and

commons assembled atWestminster, lawfully, fully, and freely representing

all the estates of the people of this realm, did upon the 13th day of

February, in the year of our Lord 1688,[1] present unto their majesties,

then called and known by the names and style of William and Mary, prince and

princess of Orange, being present in their proper persons, a certain

declaration in writing made by the said lords and commons in the words

following, viz.: — [2]



Whereas the late King James II, by the assistance of divers evil

counsellors, judges, and ministers employed by him, did endeavour to subvert

and extirpate the Protestant religion and the laws and liberties of this

kingdom by assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with and suspending

of laws and the execution of laws without consent of parliament, by

committing and prosecuting divers worthy prelates for humbly petitioning to

be excused from concurring to the said assumed power, by issuing and causing

to be executed a commission under the great seal for erecting a court called

the court of commissioners for ecclesiastical causes, by levying money for

and to the use of the crown by pretence of prerogative for other time and in

other manner than the same was granted by parliament, by raising and keeping

a standing army within this kingdom in time of peace without consent of

parliament and quartering soldiers contrary to law, by causing several good

subjects being Protestants to be disarmed at the same time when papists were

both armed and employed contrary to law, by violating the freedom of

election of members to serve in parliament, by prosecutions in the court of

king's bench for matters and causes cognizable only in parliament, and by

divers other arbitrary and illegal courses;



And whereas of late years partial, corrupt, and unqualified persons have

been returned and served on juries in trials, and particularly divers jurors

in trials for high treason, which were not freeholders, and excessive bail

hath been required of persons committed in criminal cases to elude the

benefit of the laws made for the liberty of the subjects, and excessive

fines have been imposed, and illegal and cruel punishments inflicted, and

several grants and promises made of fines or forfeitures before any

conviction or judgment against the persons upon whom the same were to be

levied, all which are utterly and directly contrary to the known laws and

statutes and freedom of this realm;



And whereas the said late King James II having abdicated the government, and

the throne being thereby vacant, his highness the prince of Orange (whom it

hath pleased Almighty God to make the glorious instrument of delivering this

kingdom from popery and arbitrary power) did, by the advice of the lords

spiritual and temporal and divers principal persons of the commons, cause

letters to be written to the lords spiritual and temporal being Protestants,

and other letters to the several counties, cities, universities, boroughs,

and Cinque Ports for the choosing of such persons to represent them as were

of right to be sent to parliament to meet and sit at Westminster ... , in

order to [provide] such an establishment as that their religion, laws, and

liberties might not again be in danger of being subverted, upon which

letters elections having been accordingly made:



And thereupon the said lords spiritual and temporal and commons, pursuant to

their respective letters and elections being now assembled in a full and

free representative of this nation, taking into their most serious

consideration the best means for attaining the ends aforesaid, do in the

first place (as their ancestors in like case have usually done) for the

vindicating and asserting their ancient rights and liberties, declare that

the pretended power of suspending of laws or the execution of laws by regal

authority without consent of parliament is illegal; that the pretended power

of dispensing with laws or the execution of laws by regal authority, as it

hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal; that the commission for

erecting the late court of commissioners for ecclesiastical causes and all

other commissions and courts of like nature are illegal and pernicious; that

levying money for or to the use of the crown by pretence of prerogative

without grant of parliament, for longer time or in other manner than the

same is or shall be granted, is illegal; that it is the right of the

subjects to petition the king, and all commitments and prosecutions for such

petitioning are illegal; that the raising or keeping a standing army within

the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is

against law; that the subjects which are Protestants may have arms for their

defence suitable to their conditions and as allowed by law; that election of

members of parliament ought to be free; that the freedom of speech and

debates or proceedings in parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned

in any court or place out of parliament; that excessive bail ought not to be

required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments

inflicted; that jurors ought to be duly impanelled and returned, and jurors

which pass upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders; that

all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons

before conviction are illegal and void; and that, for redress of all

grievances and for the amending, strengthening, and preserving of the laws,

parliaments ought to be held frequently.



And they do claim, demand, and insist upon all and singular the premises as

their undoubted rights and liberties, and that no declarations, judgments,

doings, or proceedings to the prejudice of the people in any of the said

premises ought in any wise to be drawn hereafter into consequence or

example. To which demand of their rights they are particularly encouraged by

the declaration of his highness the prince of Orange, as being the only

means for obtaining a full redress and remedy therein. Having therefore an

entire confidence that his said highness the prince of Orange will perfect

the deliverance so far advanced by him and will still preserve them from the

violation of their rights which they have here asserted and from all other

attempts upon their religion, rights, and liberties, the said lords

spiritual and temporal and commons assembled atWestminsterdo resolve that

William and Mary, prince and princess of Orange, be and be declared king and

queen of England,France, andIreland, and the dominions thereunto

belonging, to hold the crown and royal dignity of the said kingdoms and

dominions to them, the said prince and princess, during their lives and the

life of the survivor of them; and that the sole and full exercise of the

regal power be only in and executed by the said prince of Orange in the

names of the said prince and princess during their joint lives, and after

their deceases the said crown and royal dignity of the said kingdoms and

dominions to be to the heirs of the body of the said princess, and for

default of such issue to the princess Anne of Denmark and the heirs of her

body, and for default of such issue to the heirs of the body of the said

prince of Orange. And the lords spiritual and temporal and commons do pray

the said prince and princess to accept the same accordingly; and that the

oaths hereafter mentioned be taken by all persons, of whom the oaths of

allegiance and supremacy might be required by law, instead of them; and that

the said oaths of allegiance and supremacy, be abrogated: —



"I, A. B., do sincerely promise and swear that I will be faithful and bear

true allegiance to their majesties King William and Queen Mary. So help me

God."



"I, A. B., do swear that I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as

impious and heretical this damnable doctrine and position, that princes

excommunicated or deprived by the pope or any authority of the see ofRome

may be deposed or murdered by their subjects or any other whatsoever. And I

do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath

or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or

authority ecclesiastical or spiritual within this realm. So help me God."



Upon which their said majesties did accept the crown and royal dignity of

the kingdoms of England,France, andIrelandand the dominions thereunto

belonging, according to the resolution and desire of the said lords and

commons contained in the said declaration; and thereupon their majesties

were pleased that the said lords spiritual and temporal and commons, being

the two houses of parliament, should continue to sit and, with their

majesties' royal concurrence, make effectual provision for the settlement of

the religion, laws, and liberties of this kingdom, so that the same for the

future might not be in danger again of being subverted; to which the said

lords spiritual and temporal and commons did agree and proceed to act

accordingly:



Now, in pursuance of the premises, the said lords spiritual and temporal and

commons in parliament assembled, for the ratifying, confirming, and

establishing the said declaration and the articles, clauses, matters, and

things therein contained by the force of a law made in due form by authority

of parliament, do pray that it may be declared and enacted that all and

singular the rights and liberties asserted and claimed in the said

declaration are the true, ancient, and indubitable rights and liberties of

the people of this kingdom and so shall be esteemed, allowed, adjudged,

deemed, and taken to be; and that all and every the particulars aforesaid

shall be firmly and strictly holden and observed as they are expressed in

the said declaration, and all officers and ministers whatsoever shall serve

their majesties and their successors according to the same in all times to

come. And the said lords spiritual and temporal and commons, seriously

considering how it hath pleased Almighty God, in His marvellousprovidence

and merciful goodness to this nation, to provide and preserve their said

majesties' royal persons most happily to reign over us upon the throne of

their ancestors ... , do truly, firmly, assuredly, and in the sincerity of

their hearts think, and do hereby recognize, acknowledge, and declare that

King James II, having abdicated the government and their majesties having

accepted the crown and royal dignity as aforesaid, their said majesties did

become, were, are, and of right ought to be by the laws of this realm our

sovereign liege lord and lady,king and queenof England,France, and

Ireland, and the dominions thereunto belonging; in and to whose princely

persons the royal state, crown, and dignity of the said realms with all

honours, styles, titles, regalities, prerogatives, powers, jurisdictions,

and authorities to the same belonging and appertaining are most fully,

rightly, and entirely invested and incorporated, united and annexed.



And for preventing all questions and divisions in this realm by reason of

any pretended titles to the crown, and for preserving a certainty in the

succession thereof, in and upon which the unity, peace, tranquillity, and

safety of this nation doth under God wholly consist and depend, the said

lords spiritual and temporal and commons do beseech their majesties that it

may be enacted, established, and declared that the crown and regal

government of the said kingdoms and dominions, with all and singular the

premises thereunto belonging and appertaining, shall be and continue to

their said majesties and the survivor of them during their lives and the

life of the survivor of them; and that the entire, perfect, and full

exercise of the regal power and government be only in and executed by his

majesty in the names of both their majesties during their joint lives; and

after their deceases the said crown and premises shall be and remain to the

heirs of the body of her majesty, and, for default of such issue, to her

royal highness the princess Anne of Denmark and the heirs of her body and,

for default of such issue, to the heirs of the body of his said majesty. And

thereunto the lords spiritual and temporal and commons do, in the name of

all the people aforesaid, mostly humbly and faithfully submit themselves,

their heirs, and posterities forever; and do faithfully promise that they

will stand to maintain and defend their said majesties, and also the

limitation and succession of the crown herein specified and contained, to

the utmost of their powers with their lives and estates against all persons

whatsoever that shall attempt anything to the contrary.



And whereas it hath been found by experience that it is inconsis- tent with

the safety and welfare of this Protestant kingdom to be governed by a popish

prince or by any king or queen marrying a papist, the said lords spiritual

and temporal and commons do further pray that it may be enacted that all and

every person and persons that is, are, or shall be reconciled to, or shall

hold communion with, the see or Church ofRome, orshall profess the popish

religion, or shall marry a papist shall be excluded and be forever incapable

to inherit, possess, or enjoy the crown and government of this realm and

Irelandand the dominions thereunto belonging or any part of the same, or to

have, use, or exercise any regal power, authority, or jurisdiction within

the same. And in all and every such case or cases the people of these realms

shall be and are hereby absolved of their allegiance. And the said crown and

government shall from time to time descend to and be enjoyed by such person

or persons, being Protestants, as should have inherited and enjoyed the same

in case the said person or persons ... were naturally dead. And ... every

king and queenof this realm, who at any time hereafter shall come to and

succeed in the imperial crown of this kingdom, shall on the first day of the

meeting of the first parliament next after his or her coming to the crown —

sitting in his or her throne in the house of peers, in the presence of the

lords and commons therein assembled, or at his or her coronation before such

person or persons who shall administer the coronation oath to him or her ...

— make, subscribe, and audibly repeat the declaration mentioned in the

statute made in the thirtieth year of the reign of King Charles II....[3]

But if it shall happen that such king or queen upon his or her succession to

the crown shall be under the age of twelve years, then every such king or

queen shall make, subscribe, and audibly repeat the said declaration at his

or her coronation, or the first day of the meeting of the first parliament

as aforesaid which shall first happen after such king or queen shall have

attained the said age of twelve years. All which their majesties are

contented and pleased shall be declared, enacted, and established by

authority of this present parliament; and shall stand, remain, and be the

law of this realm forever. And the same are by their said majesties, by and

with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal and commons

in parliament assembled and by the authority of the same, declared, enacted,

and established accordingly. And be it further declared and enacted by the

authority aforesaid that, from and after this present session of parliament,

no dispensation ... of or to any statute, or any part thereof, shall be

allowed; but that the same shall be held void and of no effect — except a

dispensation be allowed of in such statute, and except in such cases as

shall be specially provided for by one or more bill or bills to be passed

during this present session of parliament. Provided that no charter or grant

or pardon granted before the three-and-twentieth day of October, in the year

of our Lord 1689, shall be anyways impeached or invalidated by this act; but

that the same shall be and remain of the same force and effect in law and no

other than as if this act had never been made.



        Statutes of the Realm, VI, 142 f.: I William & Mary, st. 2, c. 2.



(B) Mutiny Act (1689)



An act for punishing officers or soldiers who shall mutiny or desert their

majesties' service. Whereas the raising or keeping a standing army within

this kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is

against law; and whereas it is judged necessary by their majesties and this

present parliament that during this time of danger several of the forces

which are now on foot should be continued and others raised for the safety

of the kingdom ...; and whereas no man may be forejudged of life or limb, or

subjected to any kind of punishment by martial law, or in any other manner

than by the judgment of his peers and according to the known and established

laws of this realm; yet nevertheless, it being requisite for retaining such

forces as are or shall be raised during this exigence of affairs in their

duty [that] an exact discipline be observed, and that soldiers who shall

mutiny or stir up sedition or shall desert their majesties' service be

brought to a more exemplary and speedy punishment than the usual forms of

law will allow: be it therefore enacted ... that ... every person being in

their majesties' service in the army and being mustered and in pay as an

officer or soldier, who shall ... excite, cause, or join in any mutiny or

sedition in the army, or shall desert their majesties' service in the army,

shall suffer death or such other punishment as by a court-martial shall be

inflicted.



And it is hereby further enacted and declared that their majesties, or the

general of their army for the time being, may by virtue of this act have

full power and authority to grant commissions to any lieutenants general or

other officers, not under the degree of colonels, from time to time to call

and assemble court-martials for punishing such offences as aforesaid. And it

is hereby further enacted and declared that no court-martial, which shall

have power to inflict any punishment by virtue of this act for the offences

aforesaid, shall consist of fewer than thirteen, whereof none to be under

the degree of captains.



Provided always that no field officer be tried by other than field officers;

and that such court-martial shall have power and authority to administer an

oath to any witness in order to the examination or trial of the offences

aforesaid. Provided always that nothing in this act contained shall extend

or be construed to exempt any officer or soldier whatsoever from the

ordinary process of law. Provided always that this act or anything therein

contained shall not ... extend to or concern any the militia forces of this

kingdom. Provided also that this act shall continue and be in force until

[10 November 1689] ... and no longer.... And no sentence of death shall be

given against any offender in such case by any court-martial unless nine of

the thirteen officers present shall concur therein. And if there be a

greater number of officers present, then the judgment shall pass by the

concurrence of the greater part of them....



                          Ibid., VI, 55 f.: 1 William & Mary, c. 5.



(C) Coronation Oath Act (1689)



An act for establishing the coronation oath. Whereas, by the law and ancient

usage of this realm, the kings and queens thereof have taken a solemn oath

upon the Evangelists at their respective coronations to maintain the

statutes, laws, and customs of the said realm, and all the people and

inhabitants thereof in their spiritual and civil rights and properties;[4]

but forasmuch as the oath itself on such occasion administered hath

heretofore been framed in doubtful words and expressions with relation to

ancient laws and constitutions at this time unknown: to the end thereof that

one uniform oath may be in all times to come taken by the kings and queens

of this realm, and to them respectively administered at the times of their

... coronation, may it please your majesties that it may be enacted, and be

it enacted ... , that the oath herein mentioned and hereafter expressed

shall and may be administered to their most excellent majesties King William

and Queen Mary — whom God long preserve — at the time of their coronation,

in the presence of all persons that shall be then and there present at the

solemnizing thereof, by the archbishop of Canterbury or the archbishop of

York, or either of them, or any other bishop of this realm whom the king's

majesty shall thereunto appoint, and who shall be hereby thereunto

respectively authorized; which oath followeth and shall be administered in

this manner, that is to say: —



The archbishop or bishop shall say: "Will you solemnly promise and swear to

govern the people of this kingdom of England and the dominions thereto

belonging according to the statutes in parliament agreed on and the laws and

customs of the same?" Theking and queenshall say: "I solemnly promise so

to do." Archbishop or bishop: "Will you to your power cause law and justice

in mercy to be executed in all your judgments?"King and queen: "I will."

Archbishop or bishop: "Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the

laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed

religion established by law? And will you preserve unto the bishops and

clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all

such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them or any

of them?"King and queen: "All this I promise to do." After this, the king

and queen, laying his and her hand upon the Holy Gospels, shall say, king

and queen: "The things which I have here before promised I will perform and

keep; so help me God." Then theking and queenshall kiss the Book.



And be it further enacted that the said oath shall be in like manner

administered to every king or queen who shall succeed to the imperial crown

of this realm....



                          Ibid., VI, 56 f.: 1 William & Mary, c. 6.



(D) Toleration Act (1689)



An act for exempting their majesties' Protestant subjects, dissenting from

theChurch of England, from the penalties of certain laws.[5] ...



And be it ... enacted ... that all ... persons that shall ... take the said

oaths and make and subscribe the declaration aforesaid shall not be ...

prosecuted in any ecclesiastical court for or by reason of their non-

conforming to theChurch of England.



Provided always ... that, if any assembly of persons dissenting from the

Church of Englandshall be had in any place for religious worship with the

doors locked, barred, or bolted during any time of such meeting together,

all ... persons that shall come to be at such meeting shall not receive any

benefit from this law.... Provided always that nothing herein contained

shall ... exempt any of the persons aforesaid from paying of tithes or other

parochial duties, or any other duties to the church or minister; nor from

any prosecution in any ecclesiastical court, or elsewhere for the same....



And be it further enacted ... that no person dissenting from the Church of

England in holy orders, or pretended holy orders, or pretending to holy

orders, nor any preacher or teacher of any congregation of dissenting

Protestants that shall make and subscribe the declaration aforesaid and take

the said oaths ... , and shall also declare his approbation of and subscribe

the articles of religion mentioned in the statute made in the thirteenth

year of the reign of the lateQueen Elizabeth...[6] shall be liable to any

of the pains or penalties mentioned in an act made in the seventeenth year

of the reign of King Charles II ... , nor the penalties mentioned in the ...

act made in the two-and-twentieth year of his said late majesty's reign, for

or by reason of such persons preaching at any meeting for the exercise of

religion; nor to the penalty of £100  mentioned in an act made in the

thirteenth and fourteenth of King Charles II ... for officiating in any

congregation for the exercise of religion permitted and allowed by this

act....[7]



And be it further enacted ... that every teacher or preacher in holy orders,

or pretended holy orders ... , that shall take the oaths herein required and

make and subscribe the declaration aforesaid, and also subscribe such of the

aforesaid articles of theChurch of Englandas are required by this act ...

, shall be thenceforth exempted from serving upon any jury, or from being

chosen or appointed to bear the office of churchwarden, overseer of the

poor, or any ... other office in any hundred ... , shire, city, town,

parish, division, or wapentake....



And whereas there are certain other persons, dissenters from the Church of

England, who scruple the taking of any oath, be it enacted by the authority

aforesaid, that every such person shall make and subscribe the aforesaid

declaration, and the declaration of fidelity following ...; and shall

subscribe a profession of their Christian belief in these words....[8]



Provided always ... that all the laws made and provided for the frequenting

of divine service on the Lord's day, commonly called Sunday, shall be still

in force and executed against all persons that offend against the said laws,

except such persons come to some congregation or assembly of religious

worship allowed or permitted by this act....



Provided always that no congregation or assembly for religious worship shall

be permitted or allowed by this act until the place of such meeting shall be

certified to the bishop ... , or to the archdeacon ... , or to the justices

of the peace at the general or quarter sessions....



                         Ibid., VI, 74 f.: 1 William & Mary, c. 18.



(E) Triennial Act (1694)[9]



An act for the frequent meeting and calling of parliaments. Whereas, by the

ancient laws and statutes of this kingdom, frequent parliaments ought to be

held; and whereas frequent and new parliaments tend very much to the happy

union and good agreement of the king and people: ... it is hereby declared

and enacted ... that from henceforth a parliament shall be holden once in

three years at the least. And be it further enacted by the authority

aforesaid that, within three years at the farthest from and after the

dissolution of this present parliament, and so from time to time forever

hereafter within three years at the farthest from and after the

determination of every other parliament, legal writs under the great seal

shall be issued by directions of your majesties, your heirs, and successors

for assembling and holding another new parliament. And be it further enacted

by the authority aforesaid that from henceforth no parliament whatsoever ...

shall have any continuance longer than for three years only at the farthest,

to be accounted from the day on which by the writs of summons the said

parliament shall be appointed to meet....



                         Ibid., VI, 510: 6-7 William & Mary, c. 2.



(F) Trials for Treason Act (1696)



An act for regulating of trials in cases of treason and misprision of

treason. Whereas nothing is more just and reasonable than that persons

prosecuted for high treason and misprision of treason ... should be justly

and equally tried ...: be it enacted ... that ... all ... persons whatsoever

that shall be accused and indicted for high treason, whereby any corruption

of blood may ... be made to any such ... offenders or to any the ... heirs

of any such ... offenders, or for misprision of such treason, shall have a

true copy of the whole indictment, but not the names of the witnesses,

delivered unto them ... five days at the least before ... they shall be

tried for the same, whereby to enable them ... to advise with counsel

thereupon, to plead and make their defence ...; and that every such person

so accused and indicted ... shall be received and admitted to make his ...

full defence by counsel learned in the law and to make any proof that he ...

can produce by lawful ... witnesses.... And in case any person ... so

accused or indicted shall desire counsel, the court before whom such person

... shall be tried ... is hereby authorized and required, immediately upon

his ... request, to assign ... such ... counsel, not exceeding two, as the

person or persons shall desire, to whom such counsel shall have free access

at all seasonable hours — any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.



And be it further enacted that ... no person ... whatsoever shall be

indicted, tried, or attainted of high treason ... but by and upon the oaths

and testimony of two lawful witnesses ... , unless the party indicted and

arraigned or tried shall willingly, without violence, in open court confess

the same, or shall stand mute or refuse to plead.... And be it further

enacted that no evidence shall be admitted or given of any overt act that is

not expressly laid in the indictment....

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Provided always that neither this act nor anything therein contained shall

anyways extend ... to any impeachment or other proceedings in parliament....

Provided also that [neither] this act nor anything therein contained shall

anyways extend to any indictment of high treason ... for counterfeiting his

majesty's coin, his great seal or privy seal, his sign-manual or privy

signet.



                              Ibid, VII, 6 1: 7-8 William III. c. 3.



(G) Civil List Act (1698)



An act for granting to his majesty a further subsidy of tunnage and poundage

towards raising the yearly sum of £700,000 for the service of his majesty's

household ... during his majesty's life. Your majesty's most dutiful and

loyal subjects, the commons of England in parliament assembled, being deeply

sensible of the great blessings which, by the goodness of Almighty God, we

... do fully enjoy under your majesty's most auspicious government, and

being desirous to make a grateful acknowledgment of your majesty's

unparalleled grace and favour ... , have therefore freely and unanimously

resolved to increase your majesty's revenue ... and do give and grant ...

the further rates, duties, and sums of money hereinafter mentioned; and do

humbly beseech your majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted ... ,

that, over and above all subsidies of tunnage and poundage ... and above all

additional duties ... already due or payable ... , there shall be raised ...

one other subsidy called tunnage ... and one further subsidy called

poundage....



And whereas it is intended that the yearly sum of £700,000 shall be supplied

to his majesty for the service of his household and family, and for other

his necessary expenses and occasions, out of the hereditary rates, and

duties of excise ... , and out of the moneys which ... shall arise by the

further subsidies and duties hereby granted: be it therefore further enacted

... that, if the said ... revenues ... shall produce in clear money more

than the yearly sum of £700,000 ... , then the overplus of such produce ...

shall not be ... applied to any use ... without the authority of parliament.



                            Ibid., VII, 382 f.: 9 William III, c. 23.



(H) Act of Settlement (1701)



An act for the further limitation of the crown and better securing the

rights and liberties of the subject. Whereas, in the first year of the reign

of your majesty ... , an act of parliament was made entitled An Act for

Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and for Settling the

Succession of the Crown ...;[10] and it being absolutely necessary, for the

safety, peace, and quiet of this realm, to obviate all doubts and

contentions in the same by reason of any pretended titles to the crown, and

to maintain a certainty in the succession thereof ...: therefore, for a

further provision of the succession of the crown in the Protestant line ...

, be it enacted and declared ... that the most excellent princess Sophia,

electress and duchess dowager of Hanover, daughter of the most excellent

princess Elizabeth, late queen of Bohemia, daughter of our late sovereign

lord, King James I of happy memory, be and is hereby declared to be the next

in succession in the Protestant line to the imperial crown and dignity to

the said realms of England,France, andIreland, with the dominions

thereunto belonging, after his majesty and the princess Anne of Denmark, and

in default of issue of the said princess Anne and of his majesty

respectively; and that, from and after the deceases of his said majesty ...

and of ... the princess Anne of Denmark, and for default of issue of the

said princess Anne and of his majesty respectively, the crown and regal

government of the said kingdoms of England,France, andIreland, and of the

dominions thereunto belonging, with the royal state and dignity of the said

realms and all the honours, styles, 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....



Provided always, and it is hereby enacted, that ... every person ... who

shall ... inherit the said crown by virtue of ... this present act, and is

... or shall ... hold communion with the ... Church ofRome, orshall

profess the popish religion, or shall marry a papist, shall be subject to

such incapacities as in such case ... are by the said recited act provided,

enacted, and established; and that everyking and queenof this realm who

shall come to and succeed in the imperial crown of this kingdom by virtue of

this act shall have the coronation oath administered to him, her, or them at

their respective coronations according to the act of parliament made in the

first year of the reign of his majesty ... ,[11] 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.



And whereas it is requisite and necessary that some further provision be

made for securing our religion, laws, and liberties from and after the death

of his majesty and the princess Anne of Denmark, and in default of issue of

the body of the said princess and of his majesty respectively: be it enacted

... that whosoever shall hereafter come to the possession of this crown

shall join in communion with theChurch of Englandas by law established;

that, in case the crown and imperial dignity of this realm shall hereafter

come to any person not being a native of this kingdom of England, this

nation be not obliged to engage in any war for the defence of any dominions

or territories which do not belong to the crown of England without the

consent of parliament; that no person who shall hereafter come to the

possession of the crown shall go out of the dominions of England,Scotland,

andIrelandwithout the consent of parliament; that ... all matters and

things relating to the well governing of this kingdom, which are properly

cognizable in the privy council by the laws and customs of this realm, shall

be transacted there, and all resolutions taken thereupon shall be signed by

such of the privy council as shall advise and consent to the same; that ...

no person born out of the kingdoms of England,Scotland, orIrelandor the

dominions thereunto belonging ... , except such as are born of English

parents, shall be capable to be of the privy council or a member of either

house of parliament or to enjoy any office or place of trust, either civil

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

person who has an office or place or profit under the king or receives a

pension from the crown shall be capable of serving as a member of the house

of commons; that ... judges' commissions be made quam diu se bene

gesserint,[12] and their salaries ascertained and established, but upon the

address of both houses of parliament it may be lawful to remove them; that

no pardon under the great seal of England be pleadable to an impeachment by

the commons in parliament....[13]



                         Ibid., VII, 636 f.: 12-13 William III, c. 2.







[1] New style, 1689.



[2] In order to understand the statute called the Bill of Rights, these

facts must be borne in mind. In December, 1688, James II fled toFrance. The

Convention Parliament, referred to in the opening sentences of this act, met

on 22 January 1689 and drew up the declaration which ends at the break in

the text on p. 602. On 13 February William and Mary accepted the declaration

and were proclaimed king and queen. On 22 February the Convention Parliament

was legalized by an act similar to that passed in 1660 (no. 114A). Finally,

on 16 December, the present statute was formally enacted. In the following

year a newly elected parliament confirmed all legislation of the Convention

Parliament.



[3] No. 114T.



[4] Cf. no. 55.



[5] The laws enumerated in the statute are Elizabeth's Act of Uniformity

(no. 81B), her Act against Sectaries (no. Sir), the Second Conventicle Act

of Charles II (see p. 553, n. 28), and four others. In order that "some ease

to scrupulous consciences in the exercise of religion may be an effectual

means to unite their majesties' Protestant subjects in interest and

affection," it is provided that the enumerated laws shall not extend to any

dissenter who shall take the oaths prescribed in the Bill of Rights (above,

p. 602) and make the declaration prescribed in the Second Test Act (above,

p. 557).



[6] The act prescribing the Thirty-Nine Articles for the Anglican Church.

The present statute waives for such persons subscription to three articles

and part of a fourth.



[7] The acts referred to above are respectively the Five-Mile Act (no.

114Q), the Second Conventicle Act (p. 553, n. 28), and the Act of Uniformity

(no 114K).



[8] The declaration of fidelity in substance repeats the prescribed oaths.

The profession of Christian belief affirms the Trinitarian creed and the

divine inspiration of the Old and New Testaments.



[9] Cf. no. 114Q.



[10] The act here recites the clauses in the Bill of Rights (no. 120A)

relating to the succession.



[11] No. 120C.



[12] That is to say, they shall be appointed to hold office during good

behaviour.



[13] Cf. no. 116F.

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