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Crown and Parliament
Recognition Act 1689
1689 CHAPTER 1 2 Will and Mar
An Act for Recognizing King William and Queene Mary and for avoiding all
Questions touching the Acts made in the Parliament assembled at Westminster
the thirteenth day of February one thousand six hundred eighty eight.
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C1 Short title given by Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), Sch. 2
King and Queen recognized. The Acts of the said Parliament were and are Laws and
Statutes, and to be obeyed.
Wee your Majestyes most humble and loyall Subjects the Lords Spirituall and (X1)
Temporall and Commons in this present Parlyament assembled doe beseech your
most excellent Majestyes that it may be published and declared in this High Court
of Parlyament and enacted by authoritie of the same That we doe recognize and
acknowledge your Majestyes were are and of Right ought to be by the Laws of this
Realme our Soveraigne Liege Lord and Lady King and Queene of England France and
Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging in and to whose Princely Persons the
Royall State Crowne and Dignity of the said Realms with all Honours Stiles Titles
Regalities Prerogatives Powers Jurisdictions and Authorities to the same belonging and
appertaining are most fully rightfully and intireley invested and incorporated united
and annexed. And for the avoiding of all Disputes and Questions concerning the Being
and Authority of the late Parliament assembled at Westminster the thirteenth day of
February one thousand six hundred eighty [X2eight] Wee doe most humbly beseech your
Majestyes that it may be enacted And bee it enacted by the King and Queenes most
excellent Majestyes by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spirituall and
Temporall and Commons in this present Parlyament assembled and by authoritie of the
same That all and singular the Acts made and enacted in the said Parlyament were and
are Laws and Statutes of this Kingdome and as such ought to be reputed taken and
obeyed by all the People of this Kingdome.
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Editorial Information
X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: and O. [O. refers to a
collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
X2 interlined on the Roll.
Editorial Information
X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: and O. [O. refers to a
collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
X2 interlined on the Roll.
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