Note (41) — Chapter III
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See Hallam’s Constitutional History, i. 8. It is to be noticed that the settlement enacts that “the inheritance of the Crown, &c., should remain in Henry the Seventh and the heirs of his body for ever, and in none other.” This would seem to bar a great number of contingent claims in various descendants of earlier Kings. As it happens, this Act has been literally carried out, for every later Sovereign of England has been a descendant of the body of Henry the Seventh.