1714: 1 George 1 Session 2 c.4: An Act to explain the Act made in the twelfth Year of the Reign of King William the Third, intituled, An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better Securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject.
‘WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament made in the twelfth Year of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lord King William the Third,
[12 & 13 W. 3. c. 2.]
intituled, An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, it is amongst other Things enacted, That from and after the Time that the further Limitation of the Crown by that Act should take Effect, no Person born out of the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, or Ireland, or the Dominions thereunto belonging, although he be naturalised or made a Denizen, except such as are born of English Parents, should 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, either Civil or Military, or to have any Grant of Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments from the Crown, to himself or to any others in Trust for him: And whereas some Doubts have arisen concerning the Construction of the said Law;’ Be it declared and enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons, in Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same,
[No Person naturalized before his Majsty’s Accession to the Crown incapacitated to be a Privy Counsellor, or a Member of Parliament, or to have any Office of Trust, Grant of Lands, &c.]
That it was not the Intent and Meaning of the Accession of said Act, that the said Clause, or anything therein contained, should extend, nor shall the said Clause be construed, adjudged, or taken to extend to disable or incapacitate any Person, who at or before his Majesty’s Accession to the Crown was naturalised, to be of the Privy-Council, or a Member of either House of Parliament, or to take or enjoy any Office or Place of Trust, either Civil or Military, or to take or have any Grant of Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments from the Crown, to himself, or any other in Trust for him.
[No person shall hereafter be naturalized, unless in the Bill there be such a disabling Clause inserted.]
‘II. And for the better preserving the said recited Clause in the said Act of the twelfth Year of the late King William the Third, entire and inviolable;’ Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That no Person shall hereafter be naturalised, unless in the Bill exhibited for that Purpose there be a Clause or particular Words inserted to declare, that such Person shall 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 Hereditaments from the Crown, to himself, or any other Person in Trust for him;
[Nor shall any Bill be received in either House of Parliament without such Clause.]
and that no Bill of Naturalisation shall hereafter be received in either House of Parliament, unless such Clause or Words be first inserted or contained therein.