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 Struggle for Constitutional Government 263 be declared king and queen of England, France, 1 and Ire- land, and the dominions thereunto belonging, to hold the crown and royal dignity of the said kingdoms and dominions to them the said prince and princess during their lives and the life of the survivor of them ;. . . and that the oaths hereafter mentioned be taken by all persons of whom the oaths of allegiance and supremacy might be required by law. .... * I, A. B., do swear that I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure, as impious and heretical, this damnable doctrine and position that princes excommunicated or deprived by the pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other what- soever. And I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate has, or ought to have, any juris- diction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, eccle- siastical or spiritual, within this realm. So help me God. Upon which their said Majesties did accept the crown and royal dignity of the kingdoms of England, France, and Ireland, and the dominions thereunto belonging, according to the resolution and desire of the said lords and commons contained in the said declaration. . . . And whereas, it hath been found by experience that it is Exclusion of inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this Protestant Catholics kingdom to be governed by a popish prince or by any king throne. 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. . . . 1 The English kings continued to include their long-lost French pos- sessions in the list of their domains.