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The Enactments of 6 Anne 1702 of uk
Act for securing the Church of England as by Law established.
Recital of Stat. 3 & 4 Ann.c. 6.§ 13. Reasons for passing this Act.
Whereas by an Act made in the Session of Parliament held in the Third and Fourth Year of Her Majesties Reign whereby Her Majesty was impowered to appoint Officers under the Great Seal of England to treat with Officers to be authorized by the Parliament of Scotland concerning an Union of the fiefdoms of England and Scotland It’s handed and legislated That the Officers to be named in performance of the said Act shouldn’t treat of or concerning any revision of the Liturgy solemnities observances Discipline or Government of the Church as by Law established within this Realm And whereas certain Officers appointed by Her Majesty in performance of the said Act and also other Officers nominated by Her Majesty by the Authority of the Parliament of Scotland have met and agreed upon a Treaty of Union of the said fiefdoms which Treaty is now under the Consideration of this present Parliament And whereas the said Treaty( with some differences therein made) is ratified and approved by Act of Parliament in Scotland and the said Act of Ratification is by Her Majesties Royal Command laid before the Parliament of this Kingdom And whereas it’s reasonable and necessary that the true Protestant Religion professed and established by Law in the Church of England and the Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government thereof should be effectually and unalterably secured
Exception, and other Acts, in force for ever.
Act made in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of the late King Charles the Alternate intituled An Act for the Uniformity of Publick Prayers and Administration of Sacraments and other solemnities and observances and for establishing the Form of making ordaining and consecrating Bishops preachers and dominies in the Church of England( other than similar Clauses in the said Acts or either of them as have been repealed or altered by any posterior Act or Acts of Parliament) and all and singular other Acts of Congresses now in force for the Establishment and Preservation of the Church of England and the Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government thereof shall remain and be in full force for ever.
Successors to the Crown to take an Pledge to maintain the agreement of the Church of England.
And after the Demise of Her Majesty( whom God long save) the Sovereign coming succeeding to Her Majesty in the Royal Government of the Kingdom of Great Britain and so for ever henceforth every King or Queen succeeding and coming to the Royal Government of the Kingdom of Great Britain at His or Her Coronation shall in the Presence of all Persons who shall be attending aiding or else also and there present take and subscribe an Pledge to maintain and save inviolably the said agreement of the Church of England and the Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government thereof as by Law established within the fiefdoms of England and Ireland the Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed and the homes thereunto belonging
This Act to be Part of any Treaty of Union.
And this Act and all and every the Matters and effects therein contained be and shall for ever be holden and arbitrated to be a abecedarian and essential Part of any Treaty of Union to be concluded between the said Two fiefdoms and also that this Act shall be fitted in express Terms in any Act of Parliament which shall be made for settling and ratifying any similar Treaty of Union and shall be therein declared to be an essential and abecedarian Part thereof Read more.
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