Security of the Succession, etc. Act 1701
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1701 c. 6 |
| Year | 1701 |
(13 & 14 Will. 3) C A P. VI.
'W H E R E A S by An Actmade in the first Year of the Reign of your most Excellent Majesty and your late royal Consort Queen Mary , of ever blessed Memory, intituled,An Act declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, and settling the Succession of the Crown , it was enacted, established and declared, That the Crown and Regal Government of the Kingdoms of England, France , and Ireland , and the Dominions thereunto belonging, should be and continue to your said Majesties, and the Survivor of you, during your joint Lives, and the Life of the Survivor of your Majesties; and that after the Decease of your Majesty and of the said late Queen Mary , the said Crown and Regal Government should be and remain to the Heirs of the Body of the said late Queen; 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 your Majesty: And whereas by one other Act made in the twelfth Yearof your Majesty's Reign, intituled,An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject , it was enacted, That the Crown and Regal Government of the said Kingdoms, and the Dominions thereunto belonging, with the Royal State and Dignity of the said Realms, and all Honours, Stiles, Titles, Regalities, Prerogatives, Powers, Jurisdictions and Authorities, to the same belonging and appertaining, after the Decease of your Majesty, and of the said Princess Anne of Denmark , and in Default of Issue of the said Princess Anne of Denmark , and of your Majesty respectively, should be, remain, and continue to the most excellent Princess Sophia , Electress and Duchess Dowager ofHanover , Daughter of the most excellent Princess Elizabeth late Queen of Bohemia , Daughter of our late Sovereign Lord King James the first, and the Heirs of the Body of the said Princess Sophia , being Protestants: And whereas the French King, in Hopes of disturbing the Peace and Repose of your Majesty and your Kingdoms, and creating Divisions therein, hath, since the making the said Act, caused the pretended Prince of Wales to be proclaimed in your Majesty's said Kingdom of France , by the Name, Stile and Title of James the Third, King of England , Scotland , and Ireland , whereupon the said pretended Prince hath assumed the said Stile and Title, in open Defiance of the Provisions made for the Establishment of the Title and Succession of the Crown, by the said several Acts of Parliament; on which said Acts the Safety of your Majesty's Royal Person and Government, the Continuance of the Monarchy of England , the Preservation of the Protestant Religion, the Maintenance of the Church of England as by Law established, the Security of the ancient and undoubted Rights and Liberties, and the future Peace and Tranquillity of this Kingdom, do (under God) entirely depend:' To the Intent therefore that the said Acts may be for ever inviolably preserved, and that all future Questions and Divisions by Reason of any pretended Titles to the Crown may be prevented; we your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, do humbly beseech your most Excellent Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by Authority of the same, That all and every Person and Persons, as well Peers as Commoners, that shall bear any Office or Offices, Civil or Military, or shall receive any Pay, Salary, Fee or Wages, by Reason of any Patent or Grant from his Majesty, or shall have Command or Place of Trust from or under his Majesty, or from any of his Majesty's Predecessors, or by his or their Authority, or by Authority derived from him or them, within the Realm ofEngland , DominionofWales , or Town of Berwick upon Tweed , or in his Majesty's Navy, or in the several Islands of Jersey and Guernsey , or shall be of the Houshold or in the Service or Employment of his Majesty, or of his Royal Highness Prince George , or her Royal Highness the Princess Anne of , and all Ecclesiastical Persons, all Members of Colleges and Halls in either University, that are or shall be of the Foundation (being of the Age of eighteen Years) and all Persons teaching Pupils in either University, or elsewhere, and all Schoolmasters and Ushers, and all Preachers and Teachers of separate Congregations, and every Person that shall act as a Serjeant at Law, Counsellor at Law, Barrister, Advocate, Attorney, Solicitor, Proctor, Clerk, or Notary, by practising in any Manner as such in any Court or Courts whatsoever, who shall inhabit, reside, or be within the Cities ofLondon or , or within thirty Miles distant from the same, on the first Day ofEaster Term, which shall be in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and two, or at any Time during the said Term, shall personally appear before the End of the said Term, or of Trinity Term next following, in his Majesty's High Court of Chancery , or in his Majesty's Court of King's Bench, Common Pleas , or Exchequer , and there in publick and open Court, between the Hours of nine of the Clock and twelve in the Forenoon, take the Oathherein after mentioned; that is to say,
'IA. B. do truly and sincerely acknowledge, profess, testify and declare, in my Conscience before God and the World, That our Sovereign Lord King William is lawful and rightful King of this Realm, and of all other his Majesty's Dominions and Countries thereunto belonging. And I do solemnly and sincerely declare, That I do believe in my Conscience, that the Person pretended to be Prince of Wales , during the Life of the late King James , and since his Decease pretending to be and taking upon himself the Stile and Title of King of England , by the Name of James the Third, hath not any Right or Title whatsoever to the Crown of this Realm, or any other the Dominions thereto belonging: And I do renounce, refuse, and abjure any Allegiance or Obedience to him. And I do swear, That I will bear Faith and true Allegiance to his Majesty King William , and him will defend to the utmost of my Power, against all traiterous Conspiracies and Attempts whatsoever, which shall be made against his Person, Crown, or Dignity. And I will do my best Endeavour to disclose and make known to his Majesty and his Successors all Treasons and traiterous Conspiracies, which I shall know to be against him or any of them. And I do faithfully...
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