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Security of the Succession, etc. Act 1701

Act of Parliament
Parliament of England
Long title	An Act for the further Security of His Majesties Person and the Succession of the Crown in the Protestant Line and for extinguishing the Hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales and all other Pretenders and their open and secret Abettors.
Citation	13 & 14 Will. 3. c. 6 (Ruffhead: 13 Will. c. 6)
Dates
Royal assent	7 March 1702
Commencement	30 December 1701
Repealed	15 July 1867
Other legislation
Repealed by	Statute Law Revision Act 1867
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Security of the Succession, etc. Act 1701 (13 & 14 Will. 3. c. ) was an Act of the Parliament of England. The Act required nearly all office-holders to take the oath of abjuration against James Francis Edward Stuart, pretender to the throne, self-styled Prince of Wales and son of the former King James II.

The Act also made it high treason to "compass or imagine" the death of Princess Anne of Denmark, the heir apparent to the throne, with effect from 25 March 1702. This clause never came into force however, since Anne became queen on 8 March 1702.

Assay of Plate Act 1702
Act of Parliament
Parliament of England
Long title	An Act for continuing an Act made in the Eighth Year of his late Majesty's reign, for better preventing the counterfeiting the current coin of this kingdom.
Citation	1 Ann. c. 3 (Ruffhead: 1 Ann. St. 1. c. 9)
Dates
Royal assent	30 March 1702
Commencement	8 March 1702
Other legislation
Amended by	Coinage Offences Act 1832
Repealed by	Hallmarking Act 1973
Status: Repealed

Another Act, the Assay of Plate Act 1702 (1 Ann. c. 3), passed in 1702, amended the Coin Act 1696, which concerned treason by counterfeiting coins.

Notes

1. E. Neville Williams, The Eighteenth-Century Constitution. 1688-1815. Documents and Commentary (Cambridge University Press, 1960), p. 340.
2. Section XV.

See also

• Correspondence with James the Pretender (High Treason) Act 1701
• High treason in the United Kingdom
• Treason Act

• Treason in England
• Acts of the Parliament of England 1701
• 1701 in law
• 1701 in England
• Succession to the British crown
• James Francis Edward Stuart