• Chancellor, or Keeper. If the next Succeffor fhall think fit to revoke, or alter fuch Appointment, and fhall by three Writings of the fame tenor, under Her or His Hand and Seal, require the faid Inftruments fo depofited to be ⚫ delivered up; then the Perfons with whom depofited, their Executors, Administrators, and every other Perfon, in whofe Custody the faid inftruments fhall happen to be, fhall deliver up the fame accordingly. And if any of the faid Perfons with whom the faid Inftruments fhall be fo depofited, fhall die or be removed from their respective Offices or Employments during Her Majefty's Life, fuch Perfon, or Perfons, and in Cafe of any of their Deaths their Executors and Administrators refpectively, and every other Perfon, in whofe Cuftody the fame fhall happen to be, fhall with all convenient fpeed, deliver fuch of them as fhall be in his, or their Cuftody to the Succeffor, or Succeffots of the Perfon or Perfons, fo dying or removed. Which faid feveral Inftruments fo Sealed up, and • depofited, fhall immediately after the Demife of Her Majefty without Iffue, be brought be'fore the Privy-Council, where the fame shall be forthwith open'd and read, and afterwards Inroll'd in the High Court of Chancery.

'If the Perfons with whom the faid Inftru'ments fhall be depofited, or others in whofe 6 Cuftody the fame fhall be, after the Deceafes of any of the faid Perfons, fhall open the fame, or wilfully Neglect or Refuse to produce them as aforefaid, fuch Perfons fhall incur 'the Penalties of Præmunire.

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And if all the faid Inftruments fhall not 'be produced, before the faid Privy-Council, " then any one of the faid Inftruments, fo produced, fhall be as effectual to give fuch Au་ thority as aforefaid, to the Perfons therein named, as if all of them had been produced. And if there be not any Nomination by fuch Inftruments, then the faid Seven Officers above named, or any Five of them, are appointed to be Lords Juftices of England. And that the Lords Juftices of England fhall: not diffolve the Parliament continued and ordered to affemble and fit as aforefaid, 'without exprefs Direction from fuch fucceeding Queen or King, and are reftrained and dilabled from giving the Royal Affent to any Bill for the repealing or altering the A&t for the Uniformity of Publick Prayers and Ad'miniration of Sacraments, made 13 & 14. C. II. under the Penalty of High Treafon: And that the faid Lords Juftices, before they act in their faid Offices, fhall take the Oaths mentioned in an A&t made 1 W. & M. entitled, An Act for abrogating the Oaths of Allegiance and Supemacy, and appointing other 、 Oaths, and alfo the Abjuration Oath, before the Privy Council; and all Members of both Houfes of Parliament, and every Member of the Privy Council, and all Officers and Per'fons in any Offices, Places, or Employments Civil or Military, who fhall be by this A& continued as aforefaid, fhall take the faid Oaths, and do all other A&ts required by the Laws of this Realm, to qualify themselves to continue in fuch their respective Places, 1 Offices and Employments, within fach Time

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and in fuch Manner, and under fuch Penal ties and Difabilities as they fhould or ought to do, had they been then newly elected, appointed, conftituted, or put into fuch Offices, Places or Employments in the usual and ordi nary way. And that the Lords Juftices fhall be deemed as Perfons executing Offices of • Trust within this Kingdom, and shall do all Acts requifite by the Laws to qualifie themfelves to be and continue in their faid Offices, within fuch times, aud in fuch manner, and • under fuch Penalties and Difabilities, as in and by the faid A&ts are required.

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And it is in the faid A& provided, amongst other things, That if any of the aforefaid feven Offices, other than the Office of Lord • High Treasurer of England, fhall be in Com. miffion at the time of fuch Demife of her Majefty, that then the firft Commiffioner of fuch refpective Commiffion fhall be one of the Lords Juftices of England. And if there be no Lord High Treaturer of England, and the Office of Treasurer of the Exchequer shall he in Commiffion, then the first in that Com'miffion fhall be one of the Lords Juftices of England.

I have here fhewn what wonderful Concern and Care appeared, as well in her Majefly and her Parliament, as in the late King William and his, for fettling the Succeffion to the Crown of England in the Proteftant Line. I come now to the Act of Parliament for uniting the Kingdoms of England and Scotland in one Kingdom, by the Name of Great Bri

tain.

This had been unfuccefsfully attempted by feveral of her Majefty's Predeceffors, but the Glory of it was referv'd for her Majesty, that The might appear as great in her Councils as her Arms.

This A&t is Entitled, An Act for an Union of the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland; and received the Royal Affent in the Fifth Year of the Reign of her Majefty. It recites, that Articles of Union were agreed on, the 22d Day of July, in the Fifth Year of her Majefty's Reign, by the Commiffioners nominated on behalf of the Kingdom of England, under the great Seal of England, dated the 10th Day of April then laft paft, in pursuance of an A&t of Parliament made in England in the Third Year of her Majesty's Reign, and the Commiffioners nominated on the behalf of the Kingdom of Scotland, under the Great Seal of Scotland, dated the 27th Day of February, in the 4th Year of Her Majefty's Reign, in pursuance of the 4th A&t of the 3d Seffion of the then prefent Parliament of Scotland, to treat of and concerning an Union of the faid Kingdoms; and reciting that an A&t had paffed in the Parliament of Scotland, the 16th Day of January, in the 5th Year of her Majesty's Reign, wherein it is mentioned, that the Eftates of Parliament, confidering the faid Articles of Union of the two. Kindoms, had agreed to and approved thereof with fome Additions and Explanations, and that Her Majefty had paffed in the fame Seffion of Parliament, an Act, Entitled Act for fecuring of the Proteftant Religion, and Presbyterian Church Government, which was appointed to be inferted in any Act ratifying the Treaty, and exprefly declared to be a Fundamental and Effential Con

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dition of the faid Treaty or Union in all times coming;

The Tenor of which Articles, as ratify'd and approved of, is at large recited in the faid A&t of Union. It concerns our prefent Purpofe to mention only the first and second.

ARTICLE I.

THAT the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland, fhall, upon the first Day of May, ' which fhall be in the Year One thousand feven hundred and feven, and for ever after, 'be United into one Kingdom, by the Name ' of Great Britain, and that the Enfigns Armo. rial of the faid United Kingdom be fuch as Her Majefty fhall appoint, and the Croffes of St. George and St. Andrew be conjoyned in 'fuch manner as Her Majefty fhall think fit, and ufed in all Flags, Banners, Standards ' and Enfigns both at Sea and Land.

ARTICLE II.

THAT the Succeffion to the Monarchy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, and of the Dominions thereto belonging, after Her most facred Majefty, and in default of * Iffue of Her Majefty, be, remain, and continue to the moft Excellent Princefs Sophia, • Ele&refs and Dutchefs Dowager of Hanover, 6 and the Heirs of Her Body being Proteftants, upon whom the Crown of England is fettled by an Act of Parliament made in England in the • Twelfth Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King William the Third, Entitled, An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown,

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