nela frequently. And they do claim, demand, and insist upon all and si premises, as their undoubted rights and liberties; and that rations, judgments, doings, or proceedings, to the prejud people in any of the said premises, ought in any wise to hereafter into consequence or example. To which demand of their rights they are particularly e by the declaration of his Highness the Prince of Orange, as only means for obtaining a full redress and remedy therein. Having therefore an entire confidence that his said Hig Prince of Orange will perfect the deliverance so far advance and will still preserve them from the violation of their righ they have here asserted, and from all other attempts upor ligion, rights, and liberties: II. The said Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Com sembled at Westminster, do resolve that William and Ma and Princess of Orange, be, and be declared, King and Quee land, France, and Ireland, and the dominions thereunto to hold the Crown and royal dignity of the said kingdom a ions to them the said Prince and Princess during their live life of the survivor of them; and that the sole and full exer regal power be only in and executed by the said Prince of the names of the said Prince and Princess, during their j and after their deceases, the said Crown and royal dignity o kingdoms and dominions to be to the heirs of the body o Princess; and for default of such issue to the Princess Ann mark, and the heirs of her body; and for default of such is heirs of the body of the said Prince of Orange. And the Lo ual and Temporal, and Commons, do pray the said Prince an to accept the same accordingly. III. And that the oaths hereafter mentioned be tal bear true allegiance to their majesties King William and So help me God." “I, A.B., do swear that I do from my heart abho abjure, as impious and heretical, that damnable doct tion that princes excommunicated or deprived by the authority of the See of Rome, may be deposed or mur subjects, or any other whatsoever. And I do declare th prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate has, or ough jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or autho tical or spiritual, within this realm. So help me God." IV. Upon which their said Majesties did accept th royal dignity of the kingdoms of England, France, and In dominions thereunto belonging, according to the resolut of the said Lords and Commons contained in the sai V. And thereupon their Majesties were pleased Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, being the Parliament, should continue to sit, and with their Ma concurrence make effectual provision for the settleme ligion, laws, and liberties of this kingdom, so that the future might not be in danger again of being subvert the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, proceed to act accordingly. VI. Now in pursuance of the premises, the said L and Temporal, and Commons, in Parliament assembled fying, confirming, and establishing the said declarat articles, clauses, matters, and things therein contained, of a law made in due form by authority of Parliament, it may be declared and enacted that all and singular t liberties asserted and claimed in the said declaration ancient, and indubitable rights and liberties of the p kingdom, and so shall be esteemed, allowed, adjudged, taken to be, and that all and every the particulars afore firmly and strictly holden and observed, as they are exp said declaration; and all officers and ministers whatsoev their Majesties and their successors according to the sam to come. did become, were, are, and of right ought to be, by the la realm, our sovereign liege lord and lady, King and Queen of France, and Ireland, and the dominions thereunto belongi to whose princely persons the royal state, Crown, and dign said realms, with all honors, styles, titles, regalities, pre powers, jurisdictions and authorities to the same belon appertaining, are most fully, rightfully, and entirely inv incorporated, united and annexed. VIII. And for preventing all questions and division realm, by reason of any pretended titles to the Crown, an serving a certainty in the succession thereof, in and upon unity, peace, tranquillity, and safety of this nation does, u wholly consist and depend, the said Lords Spiritual and and Commons, do beseech their Majesties that it may be established, and declared that the Crown and regal gover the said kingdoms and dominions, with all and singular the thereunto belonging and appertaining, shall be and continu said Majesties, and the survivor of them, during their lives life of the survivor of them. And that the entire, perfect exercise of the regal power and government be only in and by his Majesty, in the names of both their Majesties du joint lives; and after their deceases the said Crown and pren be and remain to the heirs of the body of her Majesty; ar fault of such issue, to her Royal Highness the Princess Ann mark, and the heirs of her body; and for default of such iss heirs of the body of his said Majesty. And thereunto Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, do, in the na the people aforesaid, most humbly and faithfully submit th their heirs and posterities forever; and do faithfully promise will stand to, maintain, and defend their said Majesties, an or shall marry a Papist, shall be excluded, and be forever inca nherit, possess, or enjoy the Crown and government of th and Ireland, and the dominions thereunto belonging, or a of the same, or to have, use, or exercise any regal power, au or jurisdiction within the same; and in all and every such case the people of these realms shall be and are hereby absolved allegiance; and the said Crown and government shall from cime descend to, and be enjoyed by, such person or person Protestants, as should have inherited and enjoyed the same, the said person or persons so reconciled, holding communion, essing, or marrying, as aforesaid, were naturally dead. X. And that every king and queen of this realm, who time hereafter shall come to and succeed in the Imperial Crown kingdom, shall, on the first day of the meeting of the first Parli next after his or her coming to the Crown, sitting in his or her In the House of Peers, in the presence of the Lords and Con therein assembled, or at his or her coronation, before such or persons who shall administer the Coronation Oath to him or the time of his or her taking the said oath (which shall first hap make, subscribe, and audibly repeat the declaration mentioned statute made in the thirteenth year of the reign of King Charl entitled "An act for the more effectual preserving the king's p and government, by disabling Papists from sitting in either hou Parliament." But if it shall happen that such king or queen, his or her succession to the Crown of this realm, shall be unde age of twelve years, then every such king or queen shall m subscribe, and audibly repeat the said declaration at his or her onation, or the first day of the meeting of the first Parliamen aforesaid, which shall first happen after such king or queen s have attained the said age of twelve years. Serience that it is in- l, and Commons, do the Popish religion, y absolved of their or persons, being I the same, in case >mmunion, or pro cad. and the same are by their said Majesties, by a consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, liament assembled, and by the authority of the [and] established accordingly. XII. And be it further declared and en aforesaid, that from and after this present no dispensation by non obstante of or to an thereof, shall be allowed, but that the same sh no effect, except a dispensation be allowed except in such cases as shall be special'y provi bill or bills to be passed during this present s XIII. Provided that no charter, or gra before the three-and-twentieth day of Octob Lord one thousand six hundred eighty-nine, peached or invalidated by this act, but that remain of the same force and effect in law, a this act had never been made. alm, who at any erial Crown of this first Parliament, his or her throne ds and Commons fore such person to him or her, at all first happen), mentioned in the King Charles II, e king's person either house of or queen, upon all be under the en shall make, - his or her cor- Parliament as or queen shall |