VOL. LIX.

Enactments in Parliament

OXFORD: HORACE HART, M.A.

PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY

Gt. Brit. Laws, statutes, etc.
Enactments in Parliament

specially concerning the

Universities of Oxford and Cambridge
the Colleges and Halls therein and
the Colleges of Winchester
Eton & Westminster

EDITED BY

LIONEL LANCELOT SHADWELL

M.A. OF NEW COLLEGE OXFORD
BARRISTER-AT-LAW

IN FOUR VOLUMES

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ENACTMENTS IN PARLIAMENT

1o GEO. I. Sess. 2. CAP. XIII.

A.D.

An Act for the further Security of His Majesties Person and Government, and the Succession of 1714-16. the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants; and for Extinguishing the Hopes of the Pretended Prince of Wales, and his Open and Secret Abetters. 1

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[Section I requires all persons therein enumerated in-
cluding 'all Ecclesiastical Persons, Heads or Gover-
nors, of what Denomination soever, and all other
Members of Colleges and Halls in any University,
that are or shall be of the Foundation, or that do or
shall enjoy any Exhibition, (being of the Age of
Eighteen Years) and all Persons Teaching or Reading
to Pupils in any University, or elsewhere, and all
Schoolmasters and Ushers' to take and subscribe the
oaths of allegiance, supremacy and abjuration as follows
either in one of the Courts in London during Michael-
mas Term next ensuing, or at Quarter Sessions before
the 23rd of January then next.]

A. B. do sincerely Promise and Swear, That I will be
Faithful, and bear true Allegiance to His Majesty
King George:
So help me God.

1 As to the oaths of allegiance and supremacy see 1 W. & M. [1 W. & M. Sess. 1., Ruff.] c. 8 (supra) and 1 W. & M. Sess. 2. c. 2 (supra), and as to the oath of abjuration see 13 & 14 [13., Ruff.] Will. 3. c. 6 (supra) and Acts cited in note thereto. The three forms prescribed by this Act remained unaltered except for the changes in the oath of abjuration made on the death of the elder Pretender by 6 Geo. 3. c. 53 (infra), till their combination into one oath by 21 & 22 Vict. c. 48 (infra). A shorter form was substituted by 30 & 31 Vict. c. 75 (infra); and this was abrogated as regards the Universities by 31 & 32 Vict. c. 72 (infra).

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