Votes of the House of Commons. Jovis 28 die Julii, 1715. [Including a report on the passing of a Bill relating to the House of Stuart and the Hanoverian succession.]
Printed on both sides of a piece of laid paper roughly 31.5 x 20 cm. Text clear and complete. In fair condition, on aged and lightly-creased paper with slight wear to extremities. Begins: 'AN Ingrossed Bill for the further Security of His Majesty's Person and Government, and the Succcession of the Crown to the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants, and for extinguishing the Hopes of the Pretended Prince of Wales, and his Open and Secret Abettors, was read the Third time, and several Amendments were made by the House to the Bill. | Resolved, | That the Bill do pass.' At head of first page: '( 213 ) Numb. 101'. At head of second page: '( 214 )'. Before publication details at foot of second page: 'By Vertue of an Order of the House of Commons, I do appoint Jacob Tonson, Timothy Goodwin, Bernard Lintott, and William Taylor to Print these Votes; And that no other Person presume to Print the same. | SP. COMPTON, Speaker.' Scarce: apparently no copy of this separate printing on COPAC.