[1706/10/456]¹

Act of naturalisation in favour of John Henry Huguetan

Our sovereign lady, considering that John Henry Huguetan, a Frenchman and Protestant, being obliged to retire out of France upon the account of the persecution, and he being well known in trade, and being desirous to settle in this kingdom and to bring all his effects here in order to carry on trade, and for that effect to be naturalised; therefore, her majesty, with advice and consent of the estates of parliament, statutes, enacts and declares that the said John Henry Huguetan, and the children of his body, and all persons lineally descending from him, born or hereafter to be born, be and shall be to all intents and purposes whatsoever held and reputed, taken and esteemed natural born subjects of this kingdom, as if the said John Henry Huguetan, and the children of his body and all persons lineally descending from him, born or hereafter to be born, had been born within this nation, and shall enjoy all benefit and privileges of natural born subjects of this kingdom.