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BRITISH

CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORIAN.

1714.

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EORGE I. duke of Brunf- | Aug. 1. wick-Lunenburgb, and elector of Hanover, fucceeded to the crown on the demise of queen Anne, by virtue of feveral acts of parliament, for fecuring the Protestant fucceffion.

He was born May 28, 1660, and was the eldeft fon of Erneft-Auguftus, bishop of Of zaburg, duke of Hanover, and elector of Brunfwick-Lunenburg, by the princefs Sophia, fifth and youngest daughter of Frederic V. elector Palatine and king of Bobemia, and the princess Elizabeth, daughter of James I. king of England.

Upon the death of the Queen, the Privycouncil being affembled according to the act of 4 & 5 of Anne, for the better fecurity of her Majefty's perfon, and the fucceffion of the crown of England in the Proteftant line; three inftruments of the fame tenor were produced by the archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord-chancellor, and Monfieur Kreynberg the refident of Hanover, under the hand and feal of the elector of Brunswick, his then Majefty, nominating nineteen perfons, to be added to the feven great officers appointed by the faid act, to compofe the Regency. The first feven were, Thomas Tenifen, lord archbishop of Canterbury; Simen Harcourt lord Harscurt, lord high chancellor; Job Sheffield dake of Buckingham, lord prefident; Charles Talbot duke of Shrewsbury, lord-high-trea

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furer; William Legg earl of Dartmouth, lord
privy-feal; Thomas Wentworth earl of Straf-
ford, firft lord commiffioner of the admi-
ralty; and Sir Thomas Parker, knight, lord
chief-juftice of the King's-bench.

The nineteen appointed by his prefent
Majefty were, the lord archbishop of York.
Shrewsbury,
Somerset,
Bolton,
Devonshire,

Dukes of

Earls of

Kent,
Argyle,
Montrofe,
Roxborough;
Pembroke,

Anglesey,

Carlisle,

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Lord viscount Townshend, lord Halifax and lord Cowper.

The lords juftices, or regency, being fet tled, his Majesty king George was proclaimed the fame day with the ufual folemnity.

The Parliament alfo met, pursuant to the abovefaid act, and the members spent the three following days in taking the paths.

The fame day the duke of Marlborough landed at Dover...

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