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2 of this Kingdom, over all Perons and in all Caues; and that no Forraign Prince, Power or State, nor peron Civil or Eccleiatick, hath any Juridiction, Power or Superiority over the ame: And therefore I do utterly renounce and forake all Forraign Juridictions, Powers and Authorities; and hall at my utmot power, defend, ait and maintain His Majeties Juridiition foreaid againt all deadly, and never decline His Majeties Power nor Juridiction, as I hall anwer eo GOD. With this addition, And I hall faithfully give my Advice and Vote in every thing hall be propounded in Parliament, as I hall anwer to GOD.

Likeas His Majety, with advice foreaid, doth hereby Recind and Annull all Acts, Statutes or Practices, as to the Preident, or Oath of Parliament, which are prejudicial unto, or inconitent with, this preent Act, and Declare the ame to be void and null in all time coming.

II. Act and Acknowledgement of His MAJESTIES Prerogative, in the choice of His Officers of State, Councellors and Judges.

He Etates of Parliament, conidering the great obligations that do ly upon them from the Law of GOD, the Law of Nations, the Municipal Laws of the Land, and their Oaths of Allegiance, to maintain and defend the Soveraign Power and Authority of the Kings Majety, and the ad conequences that do accompany any incroachments upon, or diminutions thereof: Do therefore, from their ene of humble duty, Declare, That it is an inherent priviledge of the Crown, and an undoubted part of the Royal Prerogative of the Kings of this Kingdom, to have the ole choice and appointment of the Officers of State, and Privy Councellors, and the nomination of the Lords of Seion as in former times, preceeding the year, 1637. And that the Kings Sacred Majety and His Heirs and Succeors, are for ever, by vertue of that Royal Power, which they hold from GOD Almighty over this Kingdom, to enjoy and have the full exercie of that Right. And therefore, the Kings Majety, with advice and conent of His Etates of Parliament, doth hereby Recind and Annull all Acts, Statutes or Practices to the contrair, and Declare them to have been undutiful and diloyal invaions upon the Royal Prerogative, and to be void and null in all time coming.

III. Act aerting His MAJESTIES Royal Prerogative, in the calling and diolving of Parliaments, and making of Laws.

He Etates of Parliament now conveened, by His Majeties pecial Authority, conidering that the Quietnes, Stability and Happines of the people, do depend upon the Safety of the Kings Majeties Sacred Peron, and the maintenance of His Soveraign Authority, Princely Power, and Prerogative Royal. And conceiving themelves oblieged in concience, and in dicharge of their duties to Almighty GOD, to the Kings Majety, and to their native Countrey, to make a due acknowledgement thereof at this time; Do therefore unanimouly Declare, that they will with their lives and fortunes maintain and defend the ame. And they do hereby acknowledge, that the power of Calling, Holding, Proroguing and Diolving of Parliaments, and all Conventions and Meetings of the Etates, doth olely reide in the Kings Majety, His Heirs and Succeors. And that as no Parliament can be lawfully keeped without the pecial warrand and preence of the Kings Majety, of His Commiioner; o no Acts, Sentences or Statutes, to be pat in any Parliament, can be binding upon the people, or have the authority and force of Laws, without the pecial Authority and Approbation of the Kings Majety, or His Commiioner interponed thereto, at the making thereof. And therefore the Kings Majety, with advice and conent of His Etates of Parliament, doth hereby Recind and Annull all Laws, Acts, Statutes or Practices that have been, or upon any pretext whatoever, may be, or eem, contrair to, or inconitent with, His Majeties jut Power and Prerogative above-mentioned, and Declares the ame to have been unlawful, and to be void and null in all time coming. And to the end that this Act and acknowledegment, which the Etates of Parliament, from the ene of their humble duty and certain knowledge have hereby made, may receive the more exact obedience in time coming, It is by His Majety, with advice foreaid, Statute and Ordained, that the punctual obervance thereof, be pecially regarded by all His Majeties Subjects, and that none of them upon anypretext [sic] whatoever, offer to call in quetion, impugne, or do any deed to the contrair hereof under the pain of Treaon. IV.