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 360 C. 26. Anno xxxiv & xxxvHenrici VIII. A. D. 1542-3. All Liberties of CXXX. Provided always, That all Liberties, Franchifes and Privileges of the Duchy of Lancqfter, or in the Duchy ufed any wife appertaining to the fame, fhall be of the fame Force, Plight, Quality, Goodnefs and Condition, as before. and may be ufed in as large and ample Manner, as they were before the making of this Act, and as if For farther Pro- t ^ s ^q. nac j never been had nor made ; any Thing in this Act to the contrary.ihereof notwithftanding. Wales, fee i Ed. 6 c. 10. I & a P. £f M. c. 15. 5 El. e. ic £f 28. 18 El. c. 8. i-jEl.c.g. lyCar.z.c.c. 1 W. @M.Jlat.i, c. 27. 5 W. 6f M. f. 4. 7 SI'S W. 3. c 38. 11 Sf 12 W. 3. c. 9. 8 Geo. 1. c. 25. 6 Geo. 2. r. 14. W 20 Ceo. 2. r, 4s. JeB. 3. Statutes made at Weftminfter, Anno 25 Hen. VIII. and Anno Dom. 1543- ENRY the Eighth, by the ftrace of God, King of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and of the Church of England, and alfo of Ireland, in Earth the Supreme Head, to the Honour of Almighty God, and for the Concord, Quiet and Wealth of this his Realm and Sub- ' fourteenth Day of January in the five and thirtieth Year of his Majefly's moll noble and victorious- ' Reign, and there held and continued the fame third Seffion till the nine and twentieth Day of March CAP. I. An Ait for the Eftablifhment of the King's Succeffion. TheKing'sSuo f ^T 7HERE in the Parliament holden at Wejlminjler the eighth Day of June in the eight and twen- ceffion in the ' V V tieth Year of the Reign of our moft dread Sovereign Lord King Henry the Eighth, an AcT: was Crown. i had and made for the Eftablifhment of the Succeffion of the Imperial Crown of this Realm of 'England, ' with all Dignities, Honours, Preheminencies, Prerogatives, Authorities, and Jurifdictions to the fame ' annexed or belonging, fhould be to the King's Majefty and his Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten; that I what S rt th ' ls to ^' to t ' le ^ °^ n ' s Body between his Highnefs and his then lawful Wife Queen Jane, now Crown of Eng- ' deceafed, begotten, and to the Heirs of the Body of the fame firff. Son lawfully begotten ; and for De- land was entail- ' fault of fuch Heirs, then to the fecond Son of his Highnefs Body and of the Body of the faid Queen Jane ed by the Sta- ' begotten, and to the Heirs of the Body of the fame fecond Son begotten, with divers other Limitations. tute of 28 H, 8, ' f t he Eitates, Conveyance, and Remainders of the faid Imperial Crown and other the PremifTes. ' II. And it was alfo enacted further by the faid Statute, That for lack of IfTue of our faid Sovereign ' Lord the King's Body lawfully begotten ; that then his Highnefs fhould and might give, will, limit, aflign, ' appoint, or difpofe the faid Imperial Crown, and other the PremifTes, to what Perfon or Perfons, and ' give the fame Perfon or Perfons fuch Eflate in the fame, as.it fhould pleafe his Majefty, by his gracious ' Letters Patents under the Great Seal, or by his laft Will in writing, figned with his moft gracious Hand, ' as by the fame Act, among divers other Things therein contained, more at large it doth appear ; (z) ' fithen the making of which Act, the King's Majefty hath one only IfTue of his Body lawfully begotten, ' faid Queen Jane, taken to his Wife the moft virtuous and gracious Lady Katherine, now Queen of Eng- The King's in- ' IfTue, but may have full well, when it fhall pleafe God ; (4) and forafmuch as" our faid moft dread So- tended Voyage ' vereign Lord the King, upon good and juft Grounds arid Caufes, intendeth by God's Grace to make a into France. c Voyage Royal, in his moft Royal Perfon, into the Realm of France, againft his ancient Enemy the If the King and t French King ; (?) His Highnefs moft prudently'and wifely confidering and calling to his Remembrance, fl^'iTd - Ed ^t rd ' h° w this Realm ftandeth at this prefent Time in the Cafe of Succeffion, and poifing and weighing further Heirs ' then the ' with himfelf the great Truft and Confidence that his loving Subjects have had and have in him, putting Crown (nail re- ' in his Hands wholly the Order and Declaration of the Succeffion of this Realm; (6) recognizing and main to the ' acknowledging alfo, that it is in the only pleafure and will of Almighty God, how long his Highnefs Lady Mary, Sec. ' or his faid entirely beloved Son Prince Ediuard fhall live, and whether the faid Prince fhall have Heirs ? b h^Lad""''" ' °'" ^' s Body lawfully begotten, or not, or whether his Highnefs fhall have Heirs begotten and procreated. Elizabeth/ ' between his Majefty and his faid moflr dear and entirely beloved Wife Queen Katherine that now is, or TheEftateof ' any lawful Heirs and Iflues hereafter of his own Body begotten by any other his lawful Wife : (7) And the Lady Mary ' albeit that the King's moft excellent Majefty, for Default of fuch Heirs as be inheritable by the faid Aft, tied with Con- t might by Authority of the faid Act give and difpofe the faid Imperial Crown, and other the PremifTes, duions; the t ^y j^g Letters Patents under his Great Seal, or by his laft Will in writing, figned with his moft gracious Iliza'betiK A 7 ' Hand, to any Perfon or Perfons, of fuchEftate therein as fhould pleafe his Highnefs to limit and ap- Limitation of point the Crown jf the Lady Mary do break her Conditions, and the Lady Elizabeth die without Iffue. The Eftates of the Lady Mary and Elizabeth, if the King limit no Conditions, The King by his Will or Letters Patents may affure the Reverfion or Remainder of the Crown to fuch Perfon as he will. I Bulftr. J99. 1 El. c. 1. They which have fworn the former Oaths mail efteem them as if they had fworn this. Oath againft the Au.hority of the Biihop of Rome, and for the Mainte- nance of the Title of the King and his Heirs. Rep. 1&2 Ph. & M. c. 3. See 1 El. c. 1. A former Oath reputed vain and void by the Party that fweareth. Who fhall take this Oath. It fhall. be High Treafon to refnfe to take the aforefaid Oath. Rep. 1 Ed. 6. c. 12. 1 Mar. fefl~. 1. c. r. The Penalty for doing any Thing to the Interruption of this Ac>, or of any Eftate limited thereby. 25 H. 8, c, 22. a3 H.8. c. 7. 1 Ed, 6. c, )z. i- El., c. 3,
 * je£ts of the fame, begun this third Seffion of this moil high Court of Parliament, at Wejlminjler the
 * in the faid five and thirtieth Year, wherein were eftablifhed tbefe Acts following.
 * by which Act, amongfl divers other Things, it was enafted, That the Imperial Crown of this Realm,
 * betwixt his Highnefs and his faid late Wife Queen Jane, the noble and excellent Prince, Prince Edward,
 * whom Almighty God long preferve; (3) and alfo his Majefty hath now of late, fithen the Death of the
 * land, late Wife of John Nevil Knight, Lord Latimer deceafed, by whom as yet his Majefty ha-th none