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The Act of Settlement (12 & 13 Wm 3 c.2) is an Act of the Parliament of England to settle the succession to the English throne on the Electress Sophia of Hanover, a granddaughter ...
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Act of Settlement may refer to: Statute of Legal Settlement 1547, legislation regarding the settlement of the poor; Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652, in response to the Irish ...
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Act of Settlement, provision of an English statute that was enacted by Parliament in 1701. It secured the succession of the English crown to members of the House of Hanover in the Protestant faith, unless Queen Anne, the last of the Protestant Stuarts, provided an heir. The act had the effect of excluding Roman Catholics from the throne. King George I obtained the British throne in 1714 through the terms in the Act of Settlement.