Security of the Sovereign Act 1714

Security of the Sovereign Act 1714

Act of Parliament
Parliament of Great Britain
Long title	An Act for the further security of His Majesty's person and government, and the succession of the Crown in the heirs of the late Princess Sophia being Protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret abettors.
Citation	1 Geo. 1. St. 2. c. 13
Territorial extent	Great Britain
Dates
Royal assent	20 August 1715
Commencement	17 March 1715 [a]
Repealed	13 July 1871
Other legislation
Amended by	Treason Act 1766 Statute Law Revision Act 1867
Repealed by	Promissory Oaths Act 1871
Relates to	Act of Settlement Security of the Succession, etc. Act 1701 Security of the Succession, etc. Act 1702 Treason Act 1714
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Security of the Sovereign Act 1714 (1 Geo. 1. St. 2. c. 13) was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The Act required all civil and military officers; members of colleges; teachers; preachers; and lawyers to take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy and of abjuration of the Pretender. ^[1]

Subsequent developments

The whole act was repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Promissory Oaths Act 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 48).

See also

• Treason Act 1714

Notes

1. Start of session.

References

1. Dudley Julius Medley, A Student's Manual of English Constitutional History. Sixth Edition (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1925), p. 641.