Security of the Sovereign Act 1709
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1709 c. 15 |
| Year | 1709 |
(8 Ann.) C A P. XV.
'W H E R E A S by an Actmade in the sixth Year of her present Majesty's Reign, intituled,An Act for the better Security of her Majesty's Person and Government , it is amongst other Things enacted, That all Officers, Civil and Military, in that Part of the Kingdom of Great Britain called Scotland , who were obliged and required to take in Scotland an Oath, called the Oath of Allegiance and Assurance, before the Privy Council there, should be obliged, on or before the twentieth Day of April one thousand seven hundred and eight, to take and subscribe the Oath by the said Act appointed, before the Privy Council while it should continue, and after the Determination thereof before and in the Court of Session, or the Court of Justiciary, or the Court of Exchequer there; and that all others then in any of the Affairs aforesaid, who in Respect thereof had used and been obliged to take the said Oath of Allegiance and Assurance in any other Court and Place, should be obliged to take and subscribe the same at the next Quarter-Sessions of the Peace that should be held for any County or Place in which any such Officer should be resident or abiding; and that all and every Person or Persons whatsoever, who should after be admitted into any Office, Civil or Military, within that Part of Great Britain called Scotland , should, within three Months after his Admittance into any such Office, be obliged to take the Oath appointed by the said Acts in the respective Courts above mentioned, according to the Distinction therein and above mentioned, for Persons then in Office: And whereas several Persons bearing such Offices, and who were likewise Members of Parliament, or otherwise necessarily absent, were at the Time of making the said Act, detained in England , by their Service in Parliament, and upon other publick and important Occasions, so that they were rendered incapable of repairing to the Courts aforesaid, within the Time in the said Act directed: And whereas it may happen, that Persons provided to Offices in Scotland , may, for attending the publick Service, or for other important Causes, be detained in England , and thereby cannot take the Oaths in Scotland , within the Time required by the Laws:' For Remedy whereof, Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent or the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by Authority of the same, That if any Person or Persons that have been or are in any Office, Civil or Military in aforesaid, shall, on or before the eight and twentieth Day ofJune one thousand seven hundred and ten, take and subscribe the Oath of Abjuration in the aforecited Act mentioned, and shall also take and subscribe the Oath of Allegiance, and subscribe the Assurance in the Words following, viz.
'IA. B. do sincerely promise and swear, That I will be faithful, and bear true Allegiance to her Majesty Queen Anne .'
So help me God
'IA. B. do in the Sincerity of my Heart, assert, acknowledge, and declare, That her Majesty Queen Anne is the only...
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