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 278 C. 7» Anno fexto Ann^ Reglnac. A. D. 1707, To extend to the quent Meeting and Calling of Parliaments is hereby declared and enafted to extend to the Parliament of GKatBri"''"'^ Great Britam, as fully ai.d effeaually, to all Intents, Conftru£tion-, and Purpofes, as if the fame were herein and hereby particularly recited and enafted. Privy Council VIII, And be it further enafted by the Authority aforefaid, That the Privy Council of her Majefty, nottobedif- her Heirs or Succeffors for the Kingdom of Great Britain., fhall not be determined or dilTolved by the folved byQueen's Death or Demife of her Majefty, her Heirs or Succeffors ; but fuch Privy Council {hall continue and aft Death. ^g f^^j^ j^y jj^g Space of fix Months next after fuch Demife, unlefs fooner determined by the next Succef- for to whom the Imperial Crown of this Realm is limited and appointed to go, remain, and defcend ; nor Nor the Places fhall the Office or Place of Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Great Britain, or of of tlie great Of- Lord High Treafurer of Great Britain, Lord Prefident of the Council for Great Britain, Lord Privy Sea! fleers. of Great Britain, Lord High Admiral of Great Britain, or of any of the Great Officers of the Queen or .Nor any Offices King's Houfiiold for the Time being; nor fli all any Office, Place, or Employment, Civil or Military, Cvil'or Military, within the Kingdoms oi Great Britain or Ireland, Dominion oi Wales, Town oi Berwick upon Tweed, Ifles oijerfey,^ Guernfey, Alderney, zx^Sarke, or any of her Majtfly's Plantations, become void by Reafon of the Demife or Death of her prefent Majefly, her Heirs or Succeffors, Queens or Kings of this Realm; but the faid Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Great Britain, the Lord High Treafu- rer ol Great Britain, the Lord Prefident of the Council, the Lord Privy Sea], the Lord High Admiral of Great Britain, the Great Officers of the Houfhold, and every other Perfon and Perfons in any of the Of- fices, Places, and ErRployments aforefaid, fhall continue in their refpedtive Offices, Places, and Employ- But continue for ments, for the Space of Ax Months next after fuch Death or Demife, unlefs fooner removed and difcharg- 6 Months. ed by the next in Succeffion as aforefaid. Great Seal izc. ^^- And be it further en aiSled by the Authority aforefaid. That the Great Seal of G^^^/" jBrzV(7/«, the to bcufed.' Privy Seal, Privy Signet, and all other Publick Seals in Being, at the Time of the Demife of her Majefly, her Heirs or Succeffors, fhall continue and be made ufe of as the refpedive Seals of the Succeffor, until fuch Succeffor fhall give Order to the contrary. On Qnecn's X. And be it further enafied by the Authority aforefiud. That whenfoever her Majefty (whom God Death, Privy long preferve) fliall happen to demife and depart this Life without Iffue of her Body, the Privy Council Council to caufe for Great Britain in Being, at the Time of fuch Demife of her Majefty, fhall with all convenient Speed ft '^ t "uVeTr" '^^-"^'^ ^^ "^'^'^ Proteftant Succeffor entitled to the Crovvn of Great Britain, by Virtue of the Ads before to be modaimed • mentioned, to be openly and folemnly proclaimed in Great Britain and Ireland, in fuch Manner and Form as the preceding Kings and Qiieens refpeftively have been ufually proclaimed after the Demife of their refpedive Predeceffors ; and tHat all and every Member and Members of the faid Privy Council, wilfully neg;-;£ling or refufmg to caufe fuch Proclamation to be made, fhall be guilty of High Treafon, and beino- thereof lawfully convifled, {hall be adjudged Traitors, and fhall fuffer Pains of Death, and all Loffes and Forfeitures as in Cafes of High Treiifon ; and alfo all and every Officer and Officers within the faid Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, who {hall by the faid Privy Council be required to make fuch Proclamations, and fhall wilfully refufe or negle£l to make the fame, fhall be guilty of High Treafon, on Vain of High and being thereof lawfully convifted fhall be adjudged Traitors, and fhall fuffer Pains of Death, and all ireafoa. Loffes and Forfeitures as in Cafes of High Treafon. In cafe SuccelTor ' ^I. And becaufe it may happen that the next Proteftant Succeffor may, at the Time of fuch Demife be out of the ' of her Majefty, be out of the Realm of Great Britain in Parts beyond the Seas ;' Be it therefore ena£led Realm atQueer/a by the Authority aforefaid. That for the continuing of the Adminiftration of the Government in the Death; Name of fuch Proteftant Succeffor, until her or his Arrival in Great Britain, the feven Officers herein after named, who fhall be in the Poffeffion of their Offices at the Time of fuch Demife of her Majefty, lic«a ofnte"d'' *^* '^ '° ^^^5 '^^® Archbifhop of Canterbury^ at that Time being, the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper esappoin e . ^p ^j^g Great Seal of Great Britain at that Time being, the Lord High Treafurer of Great Britain at that Time being, the Lord Prefident of the Council for Great Britain at that Time being, the Lord Privy Seal of Great Britain at that Time being, the Lord High Admiral of Great Britain at that Time being, and the Lord Chief Juftice of the ^een^s Bench at that Time being, ihall be and are, by Virtue of this hSi, conftituted and appointed Lords Juftices of Grrai Britain, and are and fhall be, by Virtue of this A(S, impowered, in the Name of fuch Succeffor, and in her and his Stead, to ufe, exercife, and execute all Powers, Authorities, Matters, and A6l'S of Government, and Adminiftration of Government, in as full and ample Manner as fuch next Succeffor could ufe or execute the fame, if fhe or he were prefent in Perfon within this Kingdom of Great Britain, until fuch Succeffor fhall arrive, or otherwife determine their Authority. TheSucccffo XII. Neverthelefs, be it further enafted by the Authority aforefaid. That fuch Perfon who by the Li- ( by three Inftru- rnitations aforefaid is or fhall be next to fucceed to the Crown of this Realm, in cafe of her Majefty's jr.eots) may add Demife without Iffue, fhall and is hereby impowered, at any Time during her Majefty's Life, by three fcveji otiiers. Inftruments under her or his Hand and Sea], revocable or to be altered at her and his Will and Pleafure, to nominate and appoint fuch and fo many Perfons, being natural born Subjects of this Realm of Great Britain, as fhe or he fhall think fit, to be added to the feven Officers before named, to be Lords Juftices as aforefaid ; who fhall be impowered, by Authority of this Aft, to a61; with them as Lords Juftices of Great Britain, as fully and in the fame Manner as if they had been herein particularly named : Which faid Lords Juftices, or the major Part of them, which fhall affemble, fo as fuch major Part be not fewer than five, {hall and may ufe and exercife ali the Powers and Authorities before mentioned, as fully and effeSually, to all Intents and Purpofes, as if all of them had been affembled together and confenting. •^Ive three In- XIII. And be it enaifed by the Authority aforefaid. That the faid three Inftruments, revocable and to ^'"T^heV" '"^ ^^ altered as aforefaid, fhall be tranfmitted into Great Britain, to the Prefident of fuch Perfon next to fuc- (UrearBritain'" ^^^^ ^ aforefaid, whofe Credentials fhall be enrolled in the High Court of Chancery, and to the Archbi- ' J fljop