Note (48) — Chapter III
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The Act 1 William and Mary (Revised Statutes, ii. 11) entailed the Crown “after their deceases,” “to the heires of the body of the said princesse & for default of such issue to the Princesse Anne of Denmarke & the heires of her body & for default of such issue to the heires of the body of the said Prince of Orange.” It was only after the death of “the most hopeful Prince William Duke of Gloucester” that the Crown was settled (12 and 13 Will. III. c. 2; Revised Statutes, ii. 94) on “the most excellent Princess Sophia Electress and Dutchess Dowager of Hannover, daughter of the most excellent Princess Elizabeth, late Queen of Bohemia, daughter of our late sovereign lord King James the First of happy memory,” “and the heirs of her body being protestants.”