parts they follow, with a nearly literal pre|cision, the words and even the form of thanks|giving, which is found in these old declaratory statutes.
The two houses, in the act of king William, did not thank God that they had found a fair opportunity to assert a right to choose their own governors, much less to make an election the only lawful title to the crown. Their having been in a condition to avoid the very appearance of it, as much as possible, was by them consider|ed as a providential escape. They threw a poli|tic, well-wrought veil over every circumstance tending to weaken the rights, which in the me|liorated order of succession they meant to per|petuate; or which might furnish a precedent for any future departure from what they had then settled for ever. Accordingly, that they might not relax the nerves of their monarchy, and that they might preserve a close conformity to the practice of their ancestors, as it appeared in the de|claratory statutes of queen Mary * 1.1 and queen Eli|zabeth, in the next clause they vest, by recognition, in their majesties, all the legal prerogatives of the crown, declaring,
that in them they are most fully, rightfully, and intirely invested, incorpo|rated, united, and annexed.In the clause which follows, for preventing questions, by rea|son of any pretended titles to the crown, they declare (observing also in this the traditionary
