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Bill Number	2386	Session	1715
Title	For the further securing of his majesty's person and government, and for extinguishing the hopes of the Pretender and his open and secret abettors.
Variant Title(s)	For the further security of his majesty's person and government, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended prince of Wales and his open and secret abettors. [15 Nov.] For the further security of his majesty's person and government. [1 Feb.] For the security of his majesty's person and government. [4 Feb.]
Heads of Bill Stages
Originating Body		Commons
Leave or Order		15 Nov 1715	Leave or Order to	Mr Jephson	[6059]
Read & Committed		21 Nov 1715	Presented by	Mr Jephson	[6059]
Reported		1 Feb 1716	Reported by	Mr John Jephson	[1089]
Sent to Chief Governor		4 Feb 1716
Privy Council Stages
Decision of the Irish Privy Council		Approved
Received & Referred to Law Officers		6 Apr 1716
Petition to English Privy Council		None
Decision of the English Privy Council		Amended
Engrossed		17 May 1716
Returned Bill Stages
House Presented		Commons
Presented		31 May 1716
Sent to Other House		—
Royal Assent		—
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Notes: 31 Jan. 1716 'A petition of the Right Honourable Nicholas Lord Viscount Kingsland, Sir Walter Blake, Baronet, and Joseph Nagle, esquire, in behalf of themselves and the rest of the Roman Catholicks of Ireland, setting forth, that they may be aggrieved by the oath of supremacy, in heads of a bill, and praying to be heard by their counsel, was presented to the house and read. Ordered, that the said petition do lie on the table, until the report from the CWH, to whom the said heads of a bill are committed, be made.' CJI, iii, 77. 1 Feb. 1716 'Then a motion being made, that a petition of ... be now read, the same was read accordingly; And the said clause and oath being also read, Ordered, that the further consideration of the said clause be adjourned until tomorrow at one of the clock, and that the petitioners be then heard by their counsel, if they think fit, at the bar of this house.' CJI, iii, 78. 4 Feb. 1716 'Then the house, according to order, proceeded to take into further consideration the clause relating to the oath of supremacy in ...; and counsel attending at the door were, according to order, called in, and heard on behalf of ..., and others, against the said clause; and being withdrawn, The said clause was disagreed to by the house; And afterwards several amendments were made to the said heads ...'. [sent to CG] CJI, iii, 80-81. Extant Copies: British Weekly Mercury (London), Wednesday, February 15, 1716; Issue 556 Subjects: [311] Law And Order - Order - Civil order, riots, sedition [312] Law And Order - Order - Treason, oaths of allegiance, impeachments Committee: Committee of the Whole House Procedural Features: Later Petition Comments on Procedural Features: Later petition: 31 Jan. 1716.