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The act recognising her majesty's authority was touched with the sceptre by the lord commissioner in the usual form, of which act the tenor follows:
The estates of parliament, considering that by the death of the late King William, of ever glorious memory, the crown and royal dignity of this kingdom is by right devolved upon Queen Anne, our present gracious sovereign, conforming to the declaration of the estates of this kingdom, therefore the estates of parliament, for themselves and in name and behalf of the whole subjects of this kingdom, assert, recognise and acknowledge her majesty's undoubted right and title to the imperial crown of this kingdom, and her majesty, with advice and consent of the said estates of parliament, does statute and declare that it is and shall be high treason in any of the subjects of this kingdom to disown, quarrel or impugn her majesty's right and title to the crown of this kingdom or her exercise of the government thereof from her actual entry to the same.