Anno Regni Gulielmi III Regis... XII & XIII, 1701.
Includes the Act of Settlement [Great Britain]. [Statutes]. William III [1650-1702], King of England. Anno Regni Gulielmi III. Regis Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, XII. & XIII. At the Parliament Begun at Westminster the Sixth Day of February, Anno Dom. 1700. In the Twelfth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord William the Third, By the Grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. And From Thence Continued by Prorogation to the Tenth Day of February, 1700. Being the First Session of This Present Parliament. London: Printed by Charles Bill, And the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, Deceas'd, 1700 [i.e. 1701]. 430, [6] pp. Same general title page preceding each act, c.1 dated 1700 and all others dated 1701. Folio (11" x 6-1/2"). Contemporary mottled paneled calf, gilt spine with raised bands and lettering piece, blind tooling to board edges, edges of text block speckled red. Light rubbing, slight gatoring and a few faint stains to boards, small chip to rear board across joint, moderate rubbing to extremities, joints starting, corners bumped and lightly worn, hinges starting, minor worming to gutter of front pastedown and first few leaves. Light toning to interior, occasional faint dampstaining, very light foxing and soiling in a few places, trimming to top-edge affecting headline on pp. 3-4 without loss to legibility, armorial bookplate (of Thomas Wentworth, dated 1712) to verso of first title page. $1,100. * A collection of 13 acts passed in the twelfth and thirteenth years of the reign of William III, with tables listing the titles of the public acts and summaries of 36 private acts. The collection includes the Act of Settlement, the landmark constitutional reforms to the line of succession that disqualified anyone who became or married a Roman Catholic from inheriting the throne. It also circumscribed the powers of the crown, eliminating a monarch's power to remove judges, among other reforms, and provided the basis for the union of England and Scotland. English Short-Title Catalogue N69553.
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