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The Act of Settlement (12 & 13 Will. 3. c. c. 2) is an act of the Parliament of England that settled the succession to the English and Irish crowns to only Protestants , which passed in 1701.
Act of Settlement, (June 12, 1701), act of Parliament that, since 1701, has regulated the succession to the throne of Great Britain. Toward the end of 1700 William III was ill and childless; his sister-in-law, the prospective queen, Anne , had just lost her only surviving child; and abroad the supporters of the exiled king, James II , were ...
The Act of Settlement was passed in 1701, reinforcing the Bill of Rights agreed by William and Mary in 1689. The main aim of this legislation was to ensure a Protestant succession to the English throne.
The Act of Settlement of 1701 was designed to secure the Protestant succession to the throne, and to strengthen the guarantees for ensuring a parliamentary system of government. The Act also strengthened the Bill of Rights (1689), which had previously established the order of succession for Mary II’s heirs.
In June 1701 Parliament hoped to resolve this problem by passing the Act of Settlement. It confirmed the provision of the Bill of Rights that no Catholic or person with a Catholic spouse could sit on the throne.
The Act of Settlement passed by Parliament and signed by William III in 1701 accordingly provided that, failing direct heirs of William or Anne, the crown would pass to Princess Sophia and her Protestant descendants.
The Act of Settlement 1701 (12 & 13 Wm 3 c. 2) was an Act of the Parliament of England to settle the succession to the English throne on the Protestant heirs of the Electress Sophia of Hanover, a granddaughter of James I.