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(Government of the Kingdom of England, France and Irland, and the Domi- 
nions thereunto belonging, should be and continue to your Majesty and the said 
late Queen, during the joynt Lives of your Majesty and the said Queen, and to 
the Survivor: And that after the Decease of your Majesty.and of the said Queen, 
the said Crown and Regal Government should be and remain to the Heirs of the 
Body of the said late Queen, and for default of such Issue, to her Royal Highness 
the Princess Anne of Denmark and the Heirs of her Body; And for Default of 
such Issue; to the Heirs of the Body. of your Majesty. And it was thereby further 
enacted, That all and every Person or Persons that then were, or afterwards should 
be reconciled to, or should hold Comnmiunion with the Sce or Church of Rome or 
should profess the Popish Religion, or marry a Papist, should be excluded, and 
are by that Act made for ever uncapable to inherit, possess, or enjoy the Crown 
and Government of this Realm and Ireland, and the Dominions thereunto belon- 
ging, or any part of the same, or to have, use, or exercise any Regal Power, 
Authority or Jurisdiction within the same; And in all and every such Case and 
Cases the People of these Realms shall be and are thereby absolved of their Alle- 
giance: And that the said Crown and Government shall from tiıne to time descend 
to and be enjoyed by such Person or Persons, being Protestants, as should have 
inherited and enjoyed the same, in case the said Person or Persons, so reconciled 
holding Communion, professing, or marrying, as aforesaid, were naturally dead. 
After the making of which Statute, and the scttlement therein contained, your 
Majesty’s good Subjects, who were restorel to the full and free Possession and 
Enjoyment of their Religion, Rights, and Liberties, by the Providence of God 
giving Success to your Majesty just Untertakings and unwearied Endcavours for 
that Purpose, had no greater temporal Felicity to hope or wish for, tlıan to see 
a Royal Progeny descending from your Majesty, to whom (under God) they owe 
their Tranquillity, and whose Ancestors have for many Years been principal Asser- 
tors of the Reformed Religion and the Liberties of Europe, and from our said 
most gracious Sovereign lady, whose Memory will always be precious to the Bub- 
jects of these Realms: And it having since pleased Almighty God to take away 
our said Sovereign Lady, and also the most hopeful Prince William Duke of 
Gloucester (the only surviving Issue of her Royal Highness the Princess Anne 
of Denmark) to the unspeakable Grief and Sorrow of your Majesty and Your 
said good Subjects, who under such Losses being sensibly pud in mind, that it 
standeth wholly in the Pleasure of Almighty God to prolong the Lives of your 
Majesty, and of her Royal Highness, and to grant to your Majesty, or to her 
Royal Highness such Issue as may be inheritable to the Crown and Regal Govern- 
ment aforesaid, by the respective Limitations in the said recited Act contained, do 
constantly implore the Divine Mercy for those Blessings; And your Majesty’s said 
Subjects having daily Experience of your Royal Care and Concern for the present 
and future Welfare of these Kingdoms, and particularly recommending from your 
Throne a further Provision to be made for the Succession of the Crown in the 
Protestant Line, for the Happiness of the Nation, and the Security of our Reli- 
gion; and it being absolutely necessary for the Safety, Peace, and Quiet of this 
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