[1706/10/457]¹

Act for naturalisation of several foreigners

Our sovereign lady the queen's majesty, with advice and consent of the estates of parliament, considering that Colonel Scipio Hill, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Verriere, of her majesty's regiment of footguards, Lieutenant Colonel John Cadour, captain in Major General Maitland's regiment, Captain Theodore Durie, her majesty's chief engineer, Captain Daniel Charlot, brigadier in her majesty's troop of guards, Captain John Burjaud, in Colonel Grant's regiment, Captain James Cavalier, lieutenant in her majesty's troop of horse grenadiers, Ensign Peter Charranton, in [William Gordon Sutherland], lord Strathnaver's regiment, Peter Cregut, formerly lieutenant in Sir William Douglas's regiment, Jeremiah Bossugne, adjutant to Major General Maitland's regiment, Major Belthazer Guydett, captain of dragoons in my lord [William Kerr], marquis of Lothian's regiment, Mr James Le Blanc and Daniel Lafagette, merchants in Edinburgh, Joshua Legoux, servant to [John Ker], earl of Roxburghe, Francis Gobron, late servant to [John Lindsay], earl of Crawford, Peter Bishop alias Lamarr, servant to [John Lyon], earl of Strathmore, Mr John Godfrey, preacher of the Gospel, Francis Loumeau du Pont, minister, Andrew Ferre, confectioner, and James Kremberg, page to my lord commissioner, Henry Hue Gilder, lieutenant, [...] Lawrence, in Major General Maitland's regiment, David and Matthew Lawrence, his sons, Lieutenant James Bruce, in the said regiment, and Peter and Frederick Bruce, his sons, Sergeant David Pirie, Robert Keith, son to Colonel [...] Keith, and William Gartshore, son to Lieutenant William Gartshore, all in the said regiment, James Binnet, native in Poitou in France, Paul Roumieu, watchmaker in Edinburgh, Peter Petite, sail-maker in Leith, Aeneas Leblanc, native of La Rochelle, George Keith, son to Lieutenant Gideon Keith of the royal regiment of dragoons, John Modena and Kenneth Smith, limners, Henry Cramden, musician, Captain James Moxgam, in Colonel Hepburn's regiment, [...] Fashier, captain lieutenant in the said regiment, John Modena, younger, limner, Francis Borie, one of the gentlemen of her majesty's lifeguards, Anthony Robyne, servant to [Alexander Grant], laird of Grant, younger, and John Hamilton, son to Alexander Hamilton, merchant in London, have resided several years within her majesty's ancient kingdom of Scotland, and some of them have and do enjoy offices in her majesty's army and have behaved themselves in their respective offices as becomes the subjection and obedience they owe to her majesty and her government; as also that all of them are of the Protestant, reformed religion professed within this kingdom; and as also considering that the rights and privileges of naturalisation to strangers of the Protestant religion, having their effects and residing within this realm, has always been thought beneficial thereto. Therefore, our sovereign lady, with advice and consent foresaid, not only ratifies, approves and confirms all and whatsoever acts of naturalisation heretofore made in favour of strangers which may in any way be applied to or concern the said persons above-mentioned, but also out of her royal bounty and inclination to favour the persons before named, with advice and consent foresaid, statutes, enacts and declares that the said Colonel Scipio Hill, Henry Verriere, John Cadour, Theodore Durie, Daniel Charlotte, John Burjaud, James Cavalier, Peter Charranton, Peter Cregut, Jeremiah Bossugne, Balthazer Guydette, Mr James Le Blanc, Daniel Lafagette, Joshua Lagoux, Francis Gobron, Peter Bishop, alias La-Marr, Mr John Godfrey, Francis Loumeau Du Pont, Andrew Ferre, James Kremberg, Henry Hue, [...] Lawrence and Matthew and David Lawrence, Lieutenant James, Peter and Frederick Bruce, David Pirie, Robert Keith, William Gartshore, James Binnet, Paul Roumieu, Peter Petite, Aeneas Leblanc, George Keith, John Medina, Kenneth Smith, Henry Cramden, James Moxgan, [...] Fashier, John Modina, Francis Borie, Anthonie Robyne and John Hamilton shall be and are hereby naturalised as native born subjects of the kingdom of Scotland, and are to enjoy her majesty's royal protection, the benefit of the law and all other privileges which a native does enjoy, as freely in all respects as if they themselves had been born within the same, and all enjoy all the rights, freedoms and privileges that are the native consequences of naturalisation, as fully as they were herein particularly enumerated. And further her majesty, with consent foresaid, statutes, enacts and declares that this privilege of naturalisation shall have full force and effect to the foresaid whole persons above-mentioned, and every one of them respectively, for the communication to them of all the rights and privileges of the native born subjects of Scotland in the case of a union between the realms of Scotland and England as if they had been native born Scots, that is they shall be deemed and reputed as the natives of Scotland to enjoy all rights and privileges in a united state with England (in case the same shall happen) as any native Scotsman in such a case might or shall enjoy, declaring always that it shall be rightful for each of the said persons to extract particles of this act for their own behoof, and that the persons above-named shall take the oath of allegiance and sign the assurance in the ordinary form before the lord clerk register and that before the said persons shall have any benefit of this act. And the lord clerk register is likewise hereby empowered to cause any of them to subscribe the formula contained in an act made in the parliament of 1701 entitled, act for preventing the growth of popery, as he sees cause.