Security of the Sovereign Act 1714

Act of Parliament
Parliament of Great Britain
Long titleAn 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.
Citation1 Geo. 1. St. 2. c. 13
Dates
Royal assent20 August 1715
Repealed13 July 1871
Other legislation
Amended byStatute Law Revision Act 1867
Repealed byPromissory Oaths Act 1871
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted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]

See also

References

  1. ^ Dudley Julius Medley, A Student's Manual of English Constitutional History. Sixth Edition (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1925), p. 641.


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