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APPENDIX.

1. OATHS TAKEN BY MEMBERS OF BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.

THE OATH OF FIDELITY.

I, A. B. do sincerely promise and swear, that I will be faithful, and bear true allegiance, to Her Majesty Queen Victoria. So help me GOD.

THE OATH OF SUPREMACY.

I, A. B. do swear, that I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure, as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, that princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murthered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever.

And I do declare, that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate, hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm. So help me GOD.

THE OATH OF ABJURATION.

I, A. B. do truly and sincerely acknowledge, profess, testify, and declare, in my conscience, before God and the world, that our sovereign lady Queen Victoria is lawful and rightful Queen of this realm, and all other her Majesty's dominions and countries thereunto belonging.

And I do solemnly and sincerely declare, that I do believe in my conscience, that not any of the descendants of the person who pretended to be Prince of Wales during the life of the late King James the Second, and since his decease pretended to be, and took upon himself the style and title of King of England, by the name of James the Third, or of Scotland, by the name of James the

Eighth, or the style and title of King of Great Britain, hath any right or title whatsoever to the crown of this realm, or any other the dominions thereunto belonging; and I do renounce, refuse, and abjure any allegiance or obedience to any of them.

And I do swear, that I will bear faith and true allegiance to her Majesty Queen Victoria, and her will defend to the utmost of my power against all traitorous conspiracies and attempts whatsoever, which shall be made against her person, crown, or dignity.

And I will do my utmost endeavour to disclose and make known to her Majesty, and her successors, all treasons and traitorous conspiracies which I shall know to be against her or any of them.

And I do faithfully promise, to the utmost of my power, to support, maintain, and defend the succession of the crown against the descendants of the said James, and against all other persons whatsoever; which succession, by an Act intituled, "An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject," is and stands limited to the Princess Sophia, Electoress and Duchess Dowager of Hanover, and the heirs of her body, being Protestants.

And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear, according to these express words by me spoken, and according to the plain common sense and understanding of the same words, without any equivocation, mental evasion, or secret reservation whatsoever. And I do make this recognition, acknowledgment, abjuration, renunciation, and promise, heartily, willingly, and truly, upon the true faith of a Christian. So help me GoD.

THE OATH TO BE TAKEN BY ROMAN CATHOLICS.

I, A. B. do sincerely promise and swear, that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and will defend her to the utmost of my power against all conspiracies and attempts whatever, which shall be made against her person, crown, or dignity; and I will do my utmost endeavour to disclose and make known to her Majesty, her heirs and successors, all treasons and traitorous conspiracies which may be formed against her or them; and I do faithfully promise to maintain, support, and defend, to the utmost of my power, the succession of the crown, which succession, by an Act, intituled, "An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject," is and stands limited to the Princess Sophia, Electress of Hanover, and the heirs of her body, being Protestants; hereby utterly renouncing and abjuring any obedience or allegiance unto any other person claiming or pretending a right to the crown of this realm: and I do further declare, that it is not an article of my faith, and that I do renounce, reject, and

abjure the opinion, that princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, or any other authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or by any person whatsoever; and I do declare, that I do not believe that the Pope of Rome, or any other foreign prince, prelate, person, state, or potentate, hath or ought to have any temporal or civil jurisdiction, power, superiority, or pre-eminence, directly or indirectly, within this realm. I do swear, that I will defend to the utmost of my power the settlement of property within this realm as established by the laws; and I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any intention to subvert the present Church Establishment as settled by law within this realm; and I do solemnly swear, that I never will exercise any privilege to which I am or may become entitled, to disturb or weaken the Protestant religion or Protestant government in the United Kingdom; and I do solemnly, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, that I do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary sense of the words of this oath, without any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation whatsoever. So help me GoD.

2. THE DECLARATION OF QUALIFICATION, BY MEMbers of THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

I, A. B. do solemnly and sincerely declare, that I am, to the best of my knowledge and belief, duly qualified to be elected a member of the House of Commons, according to the true intent and meaning of the Act passed in the second year of the reign of Queen Victoria, intituled, “An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Qualification of Members to serve in Parliament;" and that my qualification to be so elected is as set forth in the paper signed by me, and now delivered to the clerk of the House of Commons.

3. FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO AUTHORIZE THE SPEAKER TO ISSUE A WARRANT FOR A NEW WRIT DURING A RECESS.

SCHEDULE of 24 Geo. 3, sess. 2, c. 26.

WE whose names are underwritten, being two members of the House of Commons, do hereby certify, that M. P., late a member of the said house, serving as one of the knights of the shire for the county of

day of

[or as the case may be] died upon the

[or, is become a peer of Great Britain, and that

a writ of summons hath been issued under the great seal of Great Britain to summon him to Parliament] [as the case may be], and we give you this notice, to the intent that you may issue your warrant to the clerk of the Crown, to make out a new writ for the election of a knight to serve in Parliament for the said county of [or as the case may be] in the room of the said M. P. day of

Given under our hands this

To the Speaker of the House of Commons.

Note. That in case there shall be no speaker of the House of Commons, or of his absence out of the realm, such certificate may be addressed to any one of the persons appointed according to the directions of this Act.

INDE X.

Note.-The Figures refer to the pages throughout the volume; and wherever n is annexed, it calls attention to a note at the foot of the page.

ABBOT, Lord Chief Justice; his opinion in the case of Mr. J. C. Hobhouse, 57. ABINGDON, Lord; fined and imprisoned in 1795 for libel in publishing a speech delivered in the House of Lords reflecting on an individual, 81.

ACCESS TO THE CROWN; peers, as hereditary counsellors of the Crown, privileged to free access, 47. Claimed by the commons; antiquity of the privilege, 46. How and when exercised, 47. 267.

ACCOUNTS AND PAPERS;

Obtained by order or by address, 309. Distinction between these classes of returns, 309, 310. When addresses have been answered, the parties within reach of an order, 310. Orders discharged, ib. Returns to be made forthwith, ib. Effect of a prorogation upon orders and addresses for papers, 311. Papers presented by command and by Act, ib.

Printing committee in the commons; their functions, 311. Unprinted papers, 312. Distribution of printed papers by lords and commons, ib. Principle of sale adopted in the commons, ib. Delivery

to members by the Vote Office, 313. Transmission of parliamentary papers by post, ib. Arrangement of parliamentary papers, ib. Their statistical character, 313, 314. Tables of revenue, &c. prepared by the Board of Trade, 314. Improvement of statistical returns, ib. Mode of preparing orders for returns, 315. Blank forms, ib. Abstracts, 316. ADDRESSES TO THE CROWN;

In answer to Queen's speech, 144. When presented by the whole house, ib. By the lords with white staves, ib. Or privy councillors, ib. Her Majesty's pleasure known

when she will be attended, 144. Proceedings on the death of the Duke of Saxe Cobourg-Gotha, 145. In answer to written messages, 264. Exceptions in the commons, 264, 265. To verbal messages, 265. Subjects of addresses, 266, 267. Joint addresses of both houses, 266. Separate addresses, ib. Mode of presenting joint and separate address, 267, 268. Dress of peers and members, 268. Answers to addresses, ib. ADDRESSES for Public Money; rules concerning, 334, 335.

ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE; power of, solely in each house respectively, 35, 36. Adjournments at the pleasure of the Crown, ib. Motions for adjournment to supersede questions, 172. Analogous motions in committee, 229. Adjourned by Mr. Speaker if 40 members not present at four o'clock, 151. Unless there be a commission, ib. When notice taken, ib.; or it appears on division that 40 members are not present, ib. In committee, 152. On Saturday adjourned to Monday, ib. At other times adjourned upon question, ib.

ADJOURNMENT OF DEBATE; rules concerning; form of question, 172.211. Committee of the whole house cannot adjourn a debate, 228. Nor adjourn its own sittings, 228, 229.

ALEYN, Henry; committed by the commons in 1628 for libel on Parliament, 63. ALFORD, Sir W.; case of (1628), 103. ALIENS; not eligible to be members of Parliament, 26. Act of 12 & 13 Will. 3, declaring the law, ib. And of 1 Geo 1, stat. 2, c. 4, enforcing its provisions, ib. ALLUSIONS to debates, irregular, 198, 199. See also DEBATE.

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