{{Short description|Act of the Parliament of England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Use British English|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox UK legislation | short_title = Security of the Succession, etc. Act 1701 | type = Act | 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. | year = 1701 | citation = {{ubli|{{nowrap|13 & 14 Will. 3. c. 6}}{{efn|name=StatutesOfTheRealm|reference=This is the citation in ''The Statutes of the Realm''.}}|13 Will. 3. c. 6{{efn|name=StatutesAtLarge|reference=This is the citation in ''The Statutes at Large''.}}}} | territorial_extent = England and Wales | royal_assent = 7 March 1702 | commencement = 30 December 1701{{efn|Start of session.}} | amendments = Security of the Succession, etc. Act 1702 | repeal_date = 15 July 1867 | repealing_legislation = Statute Law Revision Act 1867 | related_legislation = {{ubli|Correspondence with Enemies Act 1691|Correspondence with the Pretender Act 1697|Correspondence with James the Pretender (High Treason) Act 1701|Assay of Plate Act 1702|Treason Act 1708|Security of the Sovereign Act 1714|Treason Act 1743}} | status = Repealed | original_text = https://www.british-history.ac.uk/statutes-realm/vol7/pp747-750 | use_new_UK-LEG = no }}
The '''Security of the Succession, etc. Act 1701''' (13 & 14 Will. 3. c. 6){{efn|name=StatutesOfTheRealm}} 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.<ref>E. Neville Williams, ''The Eighteenth-Century Constitution. 1688-1815. Documents and Commentary'' (Cambridge University Press, 1960), p. 340.</ref>
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.<ref>Section XV.</ref> This clause never came into force however, since Anne became queen on 8 March 1702.
== Assay of Plate Act 1702 == {{anchor|Assay of Plate Act 1702}} {{Infobox UK legislation | short_title = Assay of Plate Act 1702 | type = Act | 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. | year = 1702 | citation = {{ubli|1 Ann. c. 3{{efn|name=StatutesOfTheRealm}}|1 Ann. St. 1. c. 9{{efn|name=StatutesAtLarge}}}} | territorial_extent = England and Wales | royal_assent = 30 March 1702 | commencement = 8 March 1702{{efn|Start of session.}} | repeal_date = 1 January 1975 | amends = Coin Act 1696 | amendments = Coinage Offences Act 1832 | repealing_legislation = Hallmarking Act 1973 | related_legislation = Security of the Succession, etc. Act 1701 | status = Repealed | original_text = https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000033905846&view=1up&seq=57 | use_new_UK-LEG = no | collapsed = yes }} Another act, the '''Assay of Plate Act 1702''' (1 Ann. c. 3){{efn|name=StatutesOfTheRealm}}, passed in 1702, amended the Coin Act 1696 (8 & 9 Will. 3. c. 26), which concerned treason by counterfeiting coins.
=== Provisions === Section 1 of the act continued the Coin Act 1696 (8 & 9 Will. 3. c. 26), as continued by the Coin (No. 2) Act 1697 (9 Will. 3. c. 21), until the end of the next session of parliament after 25 March 1709.<ref>{{cite book |chapter=1° Annæ |editor-first=John |editor-last=Raithby |editor-link=John Raithby |date=1963 |orig-date=1821 |chapter-url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000033905846&view=1up&seq=57 |title=Statutes of the Realm |volume=8: The Statutes of the First to the Sixth Years of the Reign of Queen Anne (1702–1707) |publisher=Dawsons |location=London |via=HathiTrust |page=7}}</ref>
== Subsequent developments == The whole act was repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 59), which came into force on 15 July 1867.<ref>{{Cite legislation UK|act=Statute Law Revision Act 1867|type=act|year=Vict/30-31|chapter=59}}</ref>
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== See also == * Correspondence with James the Pretender (High Treason) Act 1701 * High treason in the United Kingdom * Treason Act
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Category:Acts of the Parliament of England 1701 Category:Repealed English legislation Category:Treason in England Category:Succession to the British crown Category:James Francis Edward Stuart Category:Anne, Queen of Great Britain Category:Oaths