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THE treaties of peace, friendship, alliance and confederacy between her Britannick majesty and the States-general of the United Provinces shall be approved and confirmed by the present treaty, and shall remain in their former force and vigour, as if they were inserted word for word.

The succession to the crown of England having been settled by an act of parliament, passed the twelfth year of the reign of his late majesty king William III, the title of which is, "An act for the farther limitation of the crown, and better securing the rights and liberties of the subject;" and lately, in the sixth year of the reign of her present majesty, this succession having been again established and confirmed by another act made for the greater security of her majesty's person and government, and the succession to the crown of Great Britain, &c., in the line of the most serene house of Hanover, and in the person of the princess Sophia, and of her heirs, successors and descendants, male and female, already born or to be born; and although no power hath any right to oppose the laws made upon this subject by the crown and parliament of Great Britain; if it shall happen nevertheless, that under any pretence, or by any cause whatever, any person or any power or state may pretend to dispute the establishment which the parliament hath made of the aforesaid succession in the most serene house