act of settlement in a sentence
Examples
- Historians note that in her day, strict Protestants regarded the Acts of Settlement and Uniformity of 1559 as a compromise.
- The Act of Settlement ( 1652 ) stated that anyone who had held arms against Parliament was to forfeit their lands.
- The Guardian said the Act of Settlement had disqualified dozens of people from eligibility for the throne, many of them German.
- Under the Act of Settlement anyone who became a Roman Catholic, or who married one, became disqualified to inherit the throne.
- In find it really hard to make sense of your connection between the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and the Act of Settlement.
- The prior Act of Settlement and Removal ( 1662 ), legally restricting the poor to seeking assistance in their own home parish.
- He submitted to the Parliamentary forces in the latter year but was excluded from the Act of Settlement 1652 and transplanted to Connaught.
- Previously succession had been governed by the Act of Settlement and English Bill of Rights . originally passed by the Parliament of England.
- She became heir presumptive to the crowns of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Ireland under the Act of Settlement 1701.
- The marriage was not valid because it had not received the prior approval of Bill of Rights and the Act of Settlement 1701.