| Act of Parliament | |
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| Long title | An Act for the further security of His Majesty's person and government, and the succession of 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 abettors. |
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| Citation | 1 Geo. 1. St. 2. c. 13 |
| Other legislation | |
| Repealed by | Promissory Oaths Act 1871 |
Status: Repealed | |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
The Security of the Sovereign Act 1714 (1 Geo. 1. St. 2. c. 13) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The Act required all civil and military officers; members of colleges; teachers; preachers; and lawyers to take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy and of abjuration of the Pretender.[1]
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References
- ↑ Dudley Julius Medley, A Student's Manual of English Constitutional History. Sixth Edition (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1925), p. 641.
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