Security_of_the_Succession,_etc._Act_1701

Security of the Succession, etc. Act 1701

Security of the Succession, etc. Act 1701

United Kingdom legislation

The Security of the Succession, etc. Act 1701 (13 & 14 Will. 3. c. ) was an Act of the Parliament of England. The Act required nearly all office-holders to take the oath of abjuration against James Francis Edward Stuart, pretender to the throne, self-styled Prince of Wales and son of the former King James II.[1]

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The Act also made it high treason to "compass or imagine" the death of Princess Anne of Denmark, the heir apparent to the throne, with effect from 25 March 1702.[2] This clause never came into force however, since Anne became queen on 8 March 1702.

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Another Act, the Assay of Plate Act 1702 (1 Ann. c. 3), passed in 1702, amended the Coin Act 1696, which concerned treason by counterfeiting coins.

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  1. [1]
    E. Neville Williams, The Eighteenth-Century Constitution. 1688-1815. Documents and Commentary (Cambridge University Press, 1960), p. 340.
  2. [2]
    Section XV.

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