Security_of_the_Sovereign_Act_1714

Security of the Sovereign Act 1714

Security of the Sovereign Act 1714

United Kingdom legislation


The Security of the Sovereign Act 1714 (1 Geo. 1. St. 2. c. 13) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The Act required all civil and military officers; members of colleges; teachers; preachers; and lawyers to take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy and of abjuration of the Pretender.[1]

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  1. Dudley Julius Medley, A Student's Manual of English Constitutional History. Sixth Edition (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1925), p. 641.



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