66 "Scotland for the time, to meet and assemble 6 Ann. c. 2. "at such time and place within Scotland, as "her majesty and her royal successors should "think fit, to make election of the said sixteen peers, and requiring the lord clerk register, "or two of the clerks of session, to attend all "such meetings, and to administer the oaths "as were, or should be, by law required, and "to ask the votes, and having made up the list "in presence of the meeting, to return the "names of the sixteen peers chosen, certified "under the subscription of the said lord clerk "register, clerk, or clerks of session, attending, "to the clerk of the privy council of Scotland, "to the end that the names of the sixteen peers being so returned to the privy council, might "be returned to the court from whence the "writ did issue, under the great seal of the "united kingdom, conform to the said twenty"second article; and whereas by an act of this 66 present session, intituled, An act for ren- 6 Annæ, c. 6 "dering the union of the two kingdoms more "entire and complete,' it is declared and enact"ed, that from and after the first day of May, "1708, the privy council of Scotland shall "cease and determine, whereby it is become "necessary that some further provision should "be made for the electing and returning the "said sixteen peers, that are to sit in the house " of peers in the parliament of Great Britain, pursuant to the said treaty:" Be it therefore enacted, by the queen's most excellent majesty, 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, that at all times hereafter, when her majesty, her heirs and successors shall declare her or their pleasure for summoning and hold 6 Ann. c. 23. ing any parliament of Great Britain, that in order to the electing and summoning the sixteen Proclamation peers of Scotland, a proclamation shall be issued under the great seal of Great Britain, teen peers of commanding all the peers of Scotland to assemin the parliable and meet at Edinburgh, or in such other ment of Great place in Scotland, and at such time as shall be electing six Scotland to sit Britain; and published at Edinburgh, appointed in the said proclamation, to elect by open election, the sixteen peers to sit and vote in the house of peers in the parliament of Great Britain, in such manner as by the beforerecited act and hereinafter is appointed. 2. And be it further enacted, by the authoc. 25 days rity aforesaid, that every proclamation issued before election. for the purpose aforesaid, shall be duly published at the market cross at Edinburgh, and in all the county towns of Scotland, five and twenty days at the least before the time thereby appointed for the meeting of the peers to proceed to such election. All the peers present to take the oaths. Oaths. 3. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that all the peers who meet on such proclamation, shall, before they proceed to the election, and in the presence of all the peers assembled for such election, take the rerespective oaths, videlicet: "I, A. B. do sincerely promise and swear, "that I will be faithful, and bear true allegiance to her majesty, queen Anne. " "So help me God. 'I, A. B. do swear, that I do from my "heart abhor, detest, and abjure, as impious "and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, that princes, excommunicated or 6 Ann. c. 25.. "deprived by the pope or any authority of the "see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by "their subjects or any other whatsoever: and "I do declare, that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate, hath or ought to "have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, "pre-eminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm. "So help me God." And also make, repeat, and subscribe the declaration following, videlicet : the declara I, A. B. do solemnly and sincerely, in And subscribe "the presence of God, profess, testify, and ton declare, that I do believe that in the sacrament of the Lord's supper, there is not any "transubstantiation of the elements of bread " and wine into the body and blood of Christ, "at or after the consecration thereof by any "person whatsoever, and that the invocation "or adoration of the Virgin Mary or any other saint, and the sacrifice of the mass, as they "are now used in the church of Rome, are "superstitious and idolatrous. And I do so"lemnly, in the presence of God, profess, "testify, and declare, that I do make this de"claration and every part thereof, in the plain "and ordinary sense of the words read unto "me, as they are commonly understood by English protestants, without any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation what"soever, and without any dispensation already "granted me for this purpose by the pope, or any other authority or person, whatsoever, or "without any hope of any such dispensation from any person or authority whatsoever, or without 6 Ann. c. 23. And also take the following oath. "thinking that I am, or can be, acquitted be"fore God or man, or absolved of this decla"ration or any part thereof, although the pope, "or any other person or persons, or power "whatsoever, should dispense with, or annul "the same, or declare that it was null and void "from the beginning." And also take and subscribe the following oath, videlicet: "I, A. B. do truly and sincerely acknowledge, profess, testify, and declare, in my "conscience before God and the world, that "our sovereign lady queen Anne, is lawful and " rightful queen of this realm, and of all other "her majesty's dominions and countries there"unto belonging: and I do solemnly and sin"cerely declare, that I do believe in my con"science, the person pretended to be prince of "Wales during the life of the late king James, "and, since his decease, pretending to be, under 6 Geo. 3. " and taking upon himself the stile and title of, (See the pre sent oaths of abjuration c. 53. ante, xxvii.) 'king of England by the name of James the "third, or of Scotland by the name of James "the eighth, or the stile and title of king of "Great Britain, hath not any right or title "whatsoever to the crown of this realm, or any other the dominions thereunto belonging, "and I do renounce, refuse, and abjure any "allegiance or obedience to him: and I do (( swear, that I will bear faith and true allegiance to her majesty queen Anne, and her "will defend, to the utmost of my power, against all traiterous conspiracies, and all attempts whatever which shall be made "against her person, crown, or dignity and "I will do my utmost endeavour to disclose " and make known to her majesty and her suc 6 Ann.c. 23. cessors, all treasons and traiterous conspira"cies, which I shall know to be against her 66 or any of them: And I do faithfully promise "to the utmost of my power to support, main"tain, and defend the succession of the crown against him the said James, and all other per"sons whatsoever, as the same is and stands "settled by an act, (intituled, An act declaring "the rights and liberties of the subject, and settling the succession of the crown to her present majesty and the heirs of her body, being protestants,) and as the same by one "other act, intituled, (An act for the further "limitation of the crown, and better securing "the rights and liberties of the subject,) is "and stands settled and entailed after the de cease of her majesty, and for default of issue "of her majesty, to the princess Sophia, elec"tress and duchess dowager of Hanover, and "the heirs of her body being protestants: and "all these things I do plainly and sincerely " acknowledge and swear, according to these ་་ express words by me spoken, and according "to the plain and common sense and under"standing of the same words, without any "equivocation, mental evasion, or secret reser"vation whatsoever. And I do make this recognition, acknowledgement, abjuration, re"nunciation, and promise, heartily, willingly, " and truly, upon the true faith of a christian. "So help me God." ing in Scotland present at 4. And that such peers that live in Scotland, How peers livbut shall not be present at such meeting so or residing in appointed, may take the said oaths, and make England, not and subscribe the said declaration in any she- election, may riff's court in Scotland, and every sheriff or his take the oaths, &c. |