...declaring that such Parliament. &c. in i 111 ip \ T-» • /-\ -i person shall not be enabled to be 01 the Privy Council, or a Member of either House of Parliament*, or enjoy any (a) Stat. 7 Jac. I. ch. 2. (4) SOH of C. 1837. ' * By the common law, all born hors dt ligeance...

...of England, Scotland, or Ireland, or the dominions thereunto belonging (although he be naturalized or made a denizen, except such as are born of English...of the privy council or a member of either house of parliamemY' The 1 Geo. I. stat. 2, c. 4, in order to enforce more strongly the provisions of the Act...

...immediately after the accession of George I., declaring that the party should not thereby be enabled to be of the privy council or a member of either House of parlia636 THE HISTORY OF RELIGION. ment, or to take any office or place of trust, civil or military,...

...the rights and capacities of a natural-born British subject, except the capacity of being a member of the Privy Council or a member of either House of Parliament, and except the rights and capacities (if any) specially excepted in and by such certificate. IX. And...

...of England, Scotland, or Ireland, or the dominions thereunto belonging (although he be naturalized or made a denizen, except such as are born of English...council or a member of either House of Parliament." The 1st Geo. 1, stat. 2, c. 4, in order to enforce more strongly the provisions of the Act of William,...

...England, Scotland, or Ireland, or the dominions thereunto belonging, although he be naturalized, and made a denizen (except such as are born of English parents), shall be capable to be of the privy-council, or a member of either house of parliament, or to enjoy any office or place of trust,...

...admission of foreigners into the rights and privileges of British subjects, excepting the disability to be of the Privy Council or a Member of either House of Parlia(q) This is represented in the speeches made by Mr. Hutt and Sir James Graham in Parliament on...

...the Rights and Capacities of a natural-born British Subject, except the Capacity of being a Member of the Privy Council or a Member of either House of Parliament, and except the Rights and Capacities (if any) specially excepted hi and by such Certificate. IX. And...

...Henry Robert Ferguson," as enact* that the said Henry Robert Ferguson should not thereby be enabled to be of the Privy Council, or a Member of either House of Parliament, or to take any office or place of trust either civil or military, or to have any grant of lands, tenements,...

...or incapacitate any person, who at or before his majesty's accession to the crown was naturalized, to be of the privy council, or a member of either house of parliament, &c.; and by this statute it is enacted, "that no person shall hereafter be naturalized, unless in the...