Oldalképek
PDF
ePub

their said Majesties, and the survivor of them, during their lives, and the life of the survivor of them. And that the entire, perfect, and full exercise of the regal power and government be only in, and executed by, his Majesty, in the names of both their Majesties during their joint lives; and after their deceases the said Crown and premises shall be and remain to the heirs of the body of her Majesty; 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 his said Majesty: And thereunto the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons do, in the name of all the people aforesaid, most humbly and faithfully submit themselves, their heirs and posterities for ever; and do faithfully promise, That they will stand to, maintain, and defend their said Majesties, and also the limitation and succession of the Crown herein specified and contained, to the utmost of their powers, with their lives and estates, against all persons whatsoever that shall attempt anything to the contrary.

IX. And whereas it hath been found by experience, that it is inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this Protestant kingdom, to be governed by a Popish Prince, or by any King or Queen marrying a Papist, the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, do further pray that it may be enacted, That all and every person and persons that is, are, or shall be reconciled to, or shall hold communion with, the See or Church of Rome, or shall profess the Popish religion, or shall marry a Papist, shall be excluded, and be for ever incapable to inherit, possess, or enjoy the Crown and government of this realm, and Ireland, and the dominions thereunto belonging, 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 or cases the people of these realms shall be and are hereby absolved of their allegiance; and the said Crown and government shall from time 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, or professing, or marrying as aforesaid, were naturally dead.

X. And that every King and Queen of this realm, who at any time hereafter shall come to and succeed in the Imperial Crown of this kingdom, shall, on the first day of the meeting of the first Parliament, next after his or her coming to the Crown, sitting in his or her throne in the House of Peers, in the presence of the Lords and Commons therein assembled, or at his or her coronation, before such person or persons who shall administer the coronation oath to him or her, at the time of his or her taking the said oath (which shall first happen), make, subscribe, and audibly repeat the declaration mentioned in the statute made in the thirteenth year of the reign of King Charles II, intituled "An act for the more effectual preserving the King's person and government, by disabling Papists from sitting in either House of Parliament." But if it shall happen, that such King or Queen, upon his or her succession to the Crown of this realm, shall be under the age of twelve years, then every such King or Queen shall make, subscribe, and audibly repeat the said declaration at his or her coronation, or the first day of meeting of the first Parliament as aforesaid, which shall first happen after such King or Queen shall have attained the said age of twelve years.

XI. All which their Majesties are contented and pleased shall be declared, enacted, and established by authority of this present Parliament, and shall stand, remain, and be the law of this realm for ever; and the same are by their said Majesties, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and

Temporal, and Commons, in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, declared, enacted, or established accordingly.

XII. And be it further declared and enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after this present session of Parliament, no dispensation by non obstante of or to any statute, or any part thereof, shall be allowed, but that the same shall be held void and of no effect, except a dispensation be allowed of in such statute, and except in such cases as shall be especially provided for by one or more bill or bills to be passed during this present session of Parliament.

XIII. Provided that no charter, or grant, or pardon_granted before the three-and-twentieth day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred eighty-nine, shall be any ways impeached or invalidated by this Act, but that the same shall be and remain of the same force and effect in law, and no other than as if this Act had never been made.

X

THE ACT OF SETTLEMENT (1700 a.d.)

["In order to obviate the confusion that was likely to arise as to the right of the crown, in the event (which actually occurred) of there being no surviving issue of William and Mary, of the Princess Anne, or of William, it was found necessary, in 1700, to fix more definitely the succession of the crown, and it was now further limited to the Princess Sophia, electress of Hanover, and her heirs, she being granddaughter of James I and the next in succession who held the Protestant faith. In the statute by which this was done, called the Act of Settlement. several very important constitutional provisions were introduced."-SIR EDWARD CREASY. The second, third and fifth provisions were obviously adopted because of the jealousy felt for a foreign dynasty. The third, fourth and sixth provisions were repealed before the act came into operation. It is upon the seventh, which supplements the Petition of Right and the Bill of Rights, that the greatest importance of the act rests.]

1. That whosoever shall hereafter come to the possession of this Crown, shall join in communion with the Church of England, as by law established.

2. That in case the Crown and imperial dignity of this realm shall hereafter come to any person, not being a native of this kingdom of England, this nation be not obliged to engage in any war for the defence of any dominions or territories which do not belong to the Crown of England, without the consent of Parliament.

3. That no person who shall hereafter come to the possession of this Crown, shall go out of the dominions of England, Scotland, or Ireland, without consent of Parliament.

4. That from and after the time that the further limitation by this Act shall take effect, all matters and things relating to the well governing of this kingdom, which are properly cognisable in the Privy Council by the laws and customs of this realm, shall be transacted there, and all resolutions taken thereupon shall be signed by such of the Privy Council as shall advise and consent to the same.

5. That, after the said limitations shall take effect as aforesaid, no person born out of the Kingdom of England, Scotland, or Ireland, or the dominions thereunto belonging (although to be naturalised or made a denisen except such as are born of English parents), shall be capable to be of the Privy Council, or a member of either House of Parliament, or to enjoy any office or place of trust, either civil or military, or to have any grants of land, tenements, or hereditaments, from the Crown, to himself, or to any other or others in trust for him.

6. That no person who has an office or place of profit under the King, or receives a pension from the Crown, shall be capable of serving as a member of the House of Commons.

7. That, after the said limitation shall take effect as aforesaid, judges' commissions be made quamdiu se bene gesserint, and their salaries ascertained and established; but upon the address of both Houses of Parliament, it may be lawful to remove them.

8. That no pardon under the Great Seal of England be pleadable to an impeachment by the Commons in Parliament.

BRIEF REFERENCE-LIST OF AUTHORITIES BY CHAPTERS

[The letter a is reserved for Editorial Matter.]

CHAPTER I. THE HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA

66

[ocr errors]

R. ACTON, article on Australia" in the Encyclopædia Britannica. —• J. G. GREY, Australasia.d J. M. CURRAN and T. A. COGHLAN, article on 'Australia" in the New Volumes of the Encyclopædia Britannica. -W. HARCUS, South Australia.-J. F. V. FITZGERALD, Australia. 9 HARRIET MARTINEAU, History of England During the Thirty Years' Peace. C. WYTFLIET, Descriptionis Ptolemaica Augmentum.-J. A. COCKBURN, article on "South Australia" in the New Volumes of the Encyclopædia Britannica.- H. SPENCER WALPOLE, History of England. - A. R. WALLACE, Australasia.-W. P. REEVES, article on "New Zealand" in the New Volumes of the Encyclopædia Britannica. - C. DILKE, Greater Britain. " G. C. LEVEY, article on "New South Wales" in the New Volumes of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

CHAPTER II. THE HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA

A. P. HILLIER, article on "Orange River Colony" in the New Volumes of the Encyclopadia Britannica. -ANONYMOUS, article on " Orange River Free State" in the Encyclopædia Britannica. -d A. H. KEANE, article on the "Transvaal" in the Encyclopædia Britannica. . A. P. HILLIER, article on the "Transvaal" (Domestic History) in the New Volumes of the Encyclopædia Britannica.- LIONEL JAMES, article on the "Transvaal- the War of 18991902" in the New Volumes of the Encyclopædia Britannica. —9 J. W. TURNBULL, article on Natal" in the Encyclopædia Britannica. -A. P. HILLIER, article on "Natal" in the New Volumes of the Encyclopædia Britannica. . KEITH JOHNSTON, article on Cape Colony" in the Encyclopædia Britannica. — A. P. HILLIER, article on Cape Colony" in the New Volumes of the Encyclopædia Britannica.- CHRISTIAN DE WET, Three Years' War.-L. S. AMERY, The Times' History of the War in South Africa. J. A. HOBSON, The War in South Africa. — " A. C. DOYLE, The Great Boer War.-W. S. CHURCHILL, London to Ladysmith.

66

64

CHAPTER III. THE HISTORY OF CANADA

66

G. BRYCE, History of the Canadian People. -d C. G. D. ROBERTS, History of Canada.· eJ. G. BOURINOT, Canada. - 18 G. R. PARKIN, article on the "History of Canada" in the New Volumes of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

APPENDIX. DOCUMENTS Relating to BRITISH HISTORY

The documents here given are to be found in the following sources and publications: I in GEORGE LYTTLETON'S History of the Life of Henry II, London, 1767; 11, III, and IV in STUBBS' Select Charters of English Constitutional History, Oxford, 1870; V, VI, VII, IX, and X in the Statutes of the Realm, London, 1810-1828; VIII in T. RYMER'S Fœdera, Loudon, 1704-1735.

[graphic][subsumed][subsumed][merged small]

BASED ON THE WORKS QUOTED, CITED, OR CONSULTED IN THE PREPARATION OF THE PRESENT HISTORY; WITH CRITICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

[ocr errors]
[ocr errors]
[ocr errors]

Abbott, E. A., Bacon and Essex, London, 1877.-Abercromby, P., Martial Achievements of the Scots Nation, Edinburgh, 1711-1715, 2 vols. Abrahams, B. L., The Expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290, London, 1893. Abulfazl, Akbar Namah, in Bibliotheca Indica, Calcutta, 1873-1887.-Adam, G. M., The Canadian Northwest, Toronto, 1885.-Adamnan (Bishop), Life of Saint Columba, edited by W. F. Skene, Edinburgh, 1874.-Adams, H., with H. C. Lodge, E. Young and J. L. Laughlin, Essays in Anglo-Saxon Law, Boston, 1876.-Adams, J., Epochs of Indian History, London, 1893. Adams, W. H. D., The Makers of British India, London, 1893.-Adamson, R., Roger Bacon, London, 1876.- Adolphus, J., A History of England from the Accession of George III to 1803, London, 1805-1845, 7 vols. -Ethelred, (Ailred), De Bello Standardii, in Migne's Patrologie Latine, vol. 195, Paris, 1844-1864, 221 vols.-Aiken, L., Memoirs of the Court of Elizabeth, London, 1819; The Court and Character of James I, London, 1822; Memoirs of the Court of Charles I, London, 1833.-Airy, O., Lauderdale Papers, London 1884-1885, 3 vols.; Louis XIV and the English Restoration, in Epochs of Modern History, London, 1888; Essex Papers, London, 1890; article on "Prince Rupert" in the Encyclopadia Britannica. - Albemarle, Earl of, Memoirs of the Marquis of Rockingham, London, 1852, 2 vols.- Alfred, (Samuel Kydd), History of the Factory Movement, London, 1857, 2 vols. Alison, A., History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Restoration of the Bourbons 1815, Edinburgh, 1833-1842, 14 vols.; History of Europe from the Fall of Napoleon to the Accession of Louis Napoleon, Edinburgh, 18521857, 8 vols.; Life of John, Duke of Marlborough, London, 1855, 2 vols.; Lives of Lord Castlereagh and Sir Charles Stewart, Edinburgh, 1861, 3 vols.

Sir Archibald Alison was born at Kenly in Shropshire, December 29th, 1792, and after graduating from Edinburgh University with high honours, was called to the bar in 1814. His great success as an advocate soon enabled him to indulge his taste for travel, and he spent much of his leisure time upon the Continent visiting the localities rendered memorable by the Napoleonic wars. In 1835, having been appointed sheriff of Lanarkshire, he settled near Glasgow and devoted himself to literary work. His History of Europe, commenced in 1829 and completed in 1842, achieved immediate success, passing through six editions within two years, and was translated into many foreign languages, even into Arabic and Hindustani. This great success was due to the fact that the work presented for the first time, in compact though not always well arranged form, a mass of information regarding the most exciting period of European history. The interest aroused by its matter obscured, for the time, a faulty style, strong political partisanship, inaccurate statement and incomplete deductions. Alison's literary activity con369

H. W.-VOL. XXII. 2B

« ElőzőTovább »