Succession to the Crown Act 1543
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1543 c. 1 |
| Year | 1543 |
(35 Hen. 8) C A P. I.
'W H E R E in the Parliament holden atWestminster the eighth Day of June in the eight and twentieth Year of the Reign of our most dread Sovereign Lord King Henry the Eighth, an Act was had and made for the Establishment of the Succession of the Imperial Crown of this Realm of England , by which Act, amongst divers other Things, it was enacted, That the Imperial Crown of this Realm, with all Dignities, Honours, Preheminencies, Prerogatives, Authorities, and Jurisdictions to the same annexed or belonging, should be to the King's Majesty and his Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten; that is to say, to the first Sonof his Body between his Highness and his then lawful Wife QueenJane , now deceased, begotten, and to the Heirs of the Body of the same first Son lawfully begotten; and for Default of such Heirs, then to the second Son of his Highness Body and of the Body of the said Queen Jane begotten and to the Heirs of the Body of the same second Son begotten, with divers other Limitations of the Estates, Conveyance, and Remainders of the said Imperial Crown and other the Premisses.
II. And it was also enacted further by the said Statute, That for lack of Issue of our said Sovereign Lord the King's Body lawfully begotten; that then his Highness should and might give, will, limit, assign, appoint, or dispose the said Imperial Crown, and other the Premisses, to what Person or Persons, and give the same Person or Persons such Estate in the same, as it should please his Majesty, by his gracious Letters Patents under the Great Seal, or by his last Will in writing, signed with his most gracious Hand, as by the same Act, among divers other Things therein contained, more at large it doth appear; (2) sithen the making of which Act, the King's Majesty hath one only Issue of his Body lawfully begotten, betwixt his Highness and his said late Wife QueenJane , the noble and excellent Prince, Prince Edward , whom Almighty God long preserve; (3) and also his Majesty hath now of late, sithen the Death of the said Queen Jane , taken to his Wife the most virtuous and gracious Lady Katherine , now Queen of England , late Wife of John Nevil Knight, Lord Latimer deceased, by whom as yet his Majesty hath none Issue, but may have full well, when it shall please God; (4)and forasmuch as our said most dread Sovereign Lord the...
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