I THE Hiftorical Regifter, FROM July 1714, to January 1716. N O fooner was the Queen expir'd, than the Lords, and others of her late Majefty's most Honourable Privy Council, immediately affembled in the Royal Pa lace of St. James's, to whom the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord High Chancellor, and M. Kreyenberg Refident of Brunswick, in whofe Hands, according to the Direction of the Act 4 & 5 Anna, Par. 13, (which fee in the Introduction Page vii.) the three Inftruments, under the Hand and Seal of his Electoral Highness of Brunswick, nominating the Perfons to be added to the feven great Officers of the Kingdom, appointed to be Lords Juftices, were lodg'd, produc'd the fame, which were found to be written with his Electoral Highness's own Hand, and the Names were as follows: 1. Sir William Daws, Bart. Lord Archbishop of York, 3. Charles Seymour, Duke of Somerset. B 4 x4. Mountague 14. Mountague-Venables Bertie, Earl of Abingdon. 15. Richard Lumley, Earl of Scarborough. 16. Edward Ruffel, Earl of Orford. 17. Charles Townshend, Lord Vifcount Townshend. 18. Charles Montague, Lord Halifax. 19. William Cowper, Lord Cowper. The feven great Officers, on whom the Administration of the Government, during the Abfence of the Succeffor, devolv'd, by Virtue of the Act 4 & 5 Anne above-mention'd, were, 1. Dr. Thomas Tennison, as Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. 2. Simon Harcourt, Lord Harcourt, as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. 3. John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, as Lord- Prefident of the Council. 4. Charles Talbot, Duke of Shrewsbury, as Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain. 5. William Legg, Earl of Dartmouth, as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal. 6. Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, as First Lord Commiffioner of the Admiralty. And 7. Sir Thomas Parker, Kt. as Lord Chief Juftice of the King's Bench. After the Opening of the above Inftruments, the Lords of the Council, in Purfuance of the above-mention'd Act, caus'd the following Proclamation to be publish'd. W HEREAS it hath pleas'd Almighty God to call to his Mercy our late Sovereign Lady Queen Anne, of bleffed Memory, by whofe Decease the Imperial Crowns of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, are folely and rightfully come to the High and Mighty Prince George Elector of Brunswick-Lunenburgh; we therefore the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the Realm, being here affifted with thofe of her late Majefty's Privy Council, with Numbers of other principal Gentlemen of Quality, with the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of London, do now hereby, with one full Voice and Confent of Tongue and Heart, publish and proclaim, that the High and Mighty Prince, George Elector of Brunfwick-Lunenburgh, is now, by the Death of our late Sovereign, of happy Memory, become our only lawful and rightful T Liege Lord, GEORGE, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, . to whom we do acknowledge all Faith and conftant Obedience, with all hearty and humble Affection ; befeeching God, by whom Kings and Queens do reign, to blefs the Royal King GEORGE with long and happy Years to reign over us. Given at the Palace at St. James's the 1ft Day of August, 1714. Tho. Cantuar GOD Save the KING. Harcourt C. Cowper John Povey Buckingham P. Scarsdale Thomas Onflow Shrewsbury Cardigan Dartmouth C. P. S. Grantham Robert Monroe Geo. Beaumont Bathurst Alex. Abercromby Lexington Ja. Lowther Lanfdown Tho. Clarges Pagett John London Berkeley James Stanhope Guilford Ed. Harley Somers H. Boyle W. Bromley W. Wyndham 7. Holland John Trevor Northumberland Dunmore Willoughby de Broke Edw. Northey Hollis, L. Pelham Dunbarton Arth. More Harley Ra. Freeman Ch. Rofs John Bland Wm. Pulteney Wm. Northey Al. Abercrombie C. Cholmondeley C. Aldworth John Pepper Acton Baldwyn R. Bruce Purfuant to this Proclamation, the Heralds proclaim'd his prefent Majefty by the Style of GEORGE, King of Great Britain, c. at the ufual Places, with the ufual Solemnity; a very great Number of the Nobility in their Coaches, the Lord Mayor, and Court of Aldermen, &c. affifting at the Ceremony. The fame Day the Lords Jufticès dispatch'd Orders into Scotland, to have the like Proclamation publifh'd there, according to the Ufage of that Kingdom, which was perform'd accordingly by Archibald Campbel, Earl of Isla, then Lord Juftice General of Scotland; the Duke of Mantrofe, one of the Lords of the Regency, being prefent, and at the Head of the Proceffion. This was on the 4th of Auguft. The Proclamation there I purposely omit, it being the fame, mutatis mutandis, as the above Proclamation for England. The like Measures were taken for proclaiming the King in Ireland; and the Orders of the Lords Juftices arriv'd at Dublin on the 6th, when the King was immediately proclaim'd there, with all the Solemnities usual on fuch Occafions, and with the fame Proclamation, mutatis mutandis, as above. The Day following the Lords Juftices and Council of Ireland iffu'd out the following Proclamation, for the difarming the Papifts, and feizing their Horses. Ey the Lords Juftices and Council of Ireland, W A PROCLAMATION. The. Armagh, Con. Phipps, Canc. HEREAS by the Deceafe of our late Sovereign Lady Queen Anne, of blessed Memory, the Imperial Crowns of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, are folely and rightfully come to our Sovereign Lord George, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. for preventing Dan gers |