hereafter in Example; but that all Forfeitures, Fines, Lofs of Offices, Imprifonments, Ba. aishments, Profecutions, and rigorous Executions be confidered, and the Parties redref• fed.

To which Demand of their Rights, and Redrefs of their Grievances, they took them'felves to be encouraged by the King of England's Declaration for the Kingdom of Scotland, in October last, as being the only Means for obtaining a full Redrefs and Remedy therein.

'Therefore for as much as they had an entire Confidence, that his Majesty of England 'would perfeâ the Deliverance, fo far advanced by him, and would ftill preferve them 'from the Violation of the Rights which they had afferted, and from all other Attempts upon their Religion, Laws, and Liberties;

The Eftates of the Kingdom of Scotland had refolved,

"That William and Mary, King and Queen of England, be declared King and Queen of 'Scotland, to hold the Crown and Royal Dignity of the faid Kingdom, to them the faid King and Queen during their Lives, and the • longer Liver of them; and that the fole and 'full Exercife of the Power be only in, and 'exercised by him the faid King, in the Names

of the faid King and Queen, during their joint 'Lives; and after their Deceases, that the faid 'Crown and Royal Dignity, be to the Heirs of the Body of the faid Queen; which failing, to the Princefs Anne of Denmark, and the Heirs of her Body; which alfo failing, to the Heirs of the Body of the faid William, King

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• of England. And then prayed the faid King and Queen to accept the fame accordingly. Which being accepted by their Majefties, they were proclaimed King and Queen of Scotland, the fame Day that they were Crowned King and Queen of England.

The above-mentioned A&ts of Settlement of the refpective Crowns of England and Scotland ought to be written in the Hearts of every true Briton, and engraven on Columns of Brafs, to be erected in all the Cities and Boroughs of this lfland, that Pofterity may know how much their Ancestors fuffered, and how much more they were in Danger of fuffering, from a Popish Prince; and that they may with Gratitude reverence the Memory of their glorious Deliverer the immortal King William, to whom, under God, are owing whatever Rights, whether Religious or Civil, they or their latest Pofterity fhall enjoy.

Thus appear the Caufes each Nation had for the late Revolution, and the juft Reasons for limiting the Entail of their respective Crowns in the Manner abovementioned.

They at that Time doubtlefs hoped they fhould for ever be made happy in a Defcent of Proteftant Princes, either from the late Queen Mary, the Princess Anne of Denmark, or the late King William, and therefore faw no Neceffity for extending the Limitation further; but the Death of that incomparable Princefs, the late Queen Mary, on the 28th of December 1694, followed by the Death of that hopeful Royal Infant the Duke of Gloucester, the only furviving Iffue of the Princess of Denmark, on

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the 29th of July 1700, gave frefh Alarms to the English Nation.

They faw the Entail of the Crown reduced to the Lives of the late King William and Her prefent Majefty, then Princefs of Denmark.

They faw the Hopes of a Popish Jacobite Party taking new Spirit, and beginning to revive.

They faw a long Train of Popish Princes of the Blood next in Descent after the Demifes of the late King William and the Princess of Denmark without ffue; they remeinbred the Danger they had fo lately been in from one Popish Prince, and therefore thought it high time to take all neceffary Cautions to prevent the fame for the future from a numerous Train of Roman Catholick Princes, all, or most of whom, were very near in Blood to a neighbouring Monarch, the most powerful Prince in Europe, whofe Intereft, as well as Inclination, might engage him to fupport their Pretenfions with his whole Force.

This prudent Forefight gave Birth to another Act of Parliament in England in the 12th and 13th Years of the Reign of the late King William,entitled, An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown,and better fecuring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject. By this A&t the most Illuftrious Princefs Sophia, Electrefs and Dutchess Dowager of Hanover, is declared the next in Succeffion in the Protestant Line to the Crown of England, after the late King William and 'the Princess Anne of Denmark, and their refpective Iffue; and that from and after the 'Deceases of his faid Majefty and the Princefs 'Anne of Denmark, and the Heirs of their

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respective Bodies, the Crown fhould be, re 'main, and continue to the faid Princefs So phia, and the Heirs of her Body, being Pro

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• teftants.

And thereunto the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in the Name of all the People of this Realm, did moft hum6 bly and faithfully fubmit themselves, their Heirs, and Pofterities; and did faithfully promife, that after the Deceafes of his Majefty and Her Royal Highnefs, and the Failure of the Heirs of their refpective Bodies, to ftand by, maintain and defend the faid Princefs Sophia, and the Heirs of Her Body, 'being Proteftants, according to the Limitati'on and Succeffion of the Crown in this A& 'fpecified and contained, to the utmost of their Powers, with their Lives and Eftates, against all Perfons whatsoever that fhall attempt any ( thing to the contrary.

In the 13th and 14th Years of the faid King, two other Acts of Parliament were made; the one entitled, An Act of Attainder of the Pretended Prince of Wales of High Treafon; whereby it was enacted, "That he be attainted of High Treafon, and fuffer Pains of Death, as a Traytor; and that if any Subject of England · fhall, within this Realm, or without, after the 'Firft of March, 1701, hold, entertain, or " keep any Intelligence or Correfpondence, in Perfon, or by Letters, Meffages, or otherwife, with the faid Pretended Prince of Wales, " or with any Perfon, or Perfons, employed by Him, knowing fuch Perfon to be fo employed by him, or fhall by Bill of Exchange, or o· ther wife, remit, or pay any Sum or Sums of Mony,

• Mony, for the Ufe or Service of the faid Pretended Prince of Wales, knowing fuch Mony 6 to be for fuch Ufe or Service, fuch Perfon, fo offending, being lawfully convicted, shall .6 be taken, deemed, and adjudged Guilty of 'High Treafon, and fhall fuffer and forfeit as in Cafes of High Treafon. And where any 'Offence against this A&t fhall be committed out of this Realm, the fame may be alledged, " laid, enquired of, and Tryed in any County ' of this Kingdom of England.

And the other, Entitled, An Act for the further Security of His Majesty's Perfon, and the Succeffion of the Crown in the Proteftant Line, and for extinguishing the Hopes of the Pretended Prince of Wales, and all other Pretenders, and their open and fecret Abettors. 'Wherein reciting the faid former A&s of Settlement of the Crown, and that the French King, in hopes of disturbing the Peace and Repose of his Majefty, and his Kingdoms, and creating Divifions therein, had caufed the Pretended Prince of Wales to be Proclaimed King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by the Name of James the Third; and that the faid Pretended Prince had affumed the faid Title, in · open Defiance of the Provifions made for the • Eftablishment of the Title, and Succeffion of the Crown, by the faid feveral Acts of Parliament: To the Intent therefore that the faid Acts might be for ever inviolably preferved, and that all future Queftions, and Divifions, by reason of any pretended Titles to the Crown, might be prevented, it was enacted, That all and every Perfon and Perfons, as well Peers as Commoners, that shall bear

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