Magnae Britanniae notitia: or, the present state of Great Britain. With diverse remarks upon the ancient state thereof / by John Chamberlayne.

  • Chamberlayne, Edward, 1616-1703.
Date:
1737
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Credit: Magnae Britanniae notitia: or, the present state of Great Britain. With diverse remarks upon the ancient state thereof / by John Chamberlayne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    aibftnce.] If the King was abfent upon any foreign Expe¬ dition, or otherwife, the Cuftom was to conftitute a Vice¬ gerent by Commiffionunder the Great-Seal, giving him feve- ral Titles and Powers, according as the Neceffity of Affairs have required; fometimes he hath been call’d Lord Warden, or Lord Keeper of the Kingdom, and therewith had the gene¬ ral Power ofa King, as was pra&ifed during the Abfence of Edward I, II, 111, and of Henry V. Of hater Times, the King has appointed Regents, or Lords Juftices, who are commonly the Great Officers of State. 3|ttCapacif'p*] If the King of England be Non compos men- itis, or, by reaion of an incurable Difeafe, YVeaknefs, or old Age, becomes uncapable of Governing, then is made a Regent» Protestor, or Guardian, to govern. CHAP. IV. Of the prefent King#/ Great-Britain, &c. » HIS Majefty now reigning, is GEORGE II. by the Grace of God of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, King, c7c. Defender of the Faith ; eldeft Son of his late moil Sacred Majefty King GEORGE I. He was proclaimed King of Great-Britain, June if, 1727. Born in tlfe Palace of Harenhaufen in. Hanover, the 30th Day of Ottober, 1683. On the 13d of Auguft 1705, He married the Princefs Wilhelmina-Dorothea-Charlotte of Brandenburgh- Anfpach, now Queen Confort of Great-Britain, by whom He has two Sons and five Daughters, viz. His Royal Highnefs Frederick-Lewis, Prince of Wales, Sc c. born at Hanover, Ja¬ naary 2.0, 1707. Prince William-Auguft us, born at London April 15, 1721. Her Royal Highnefs Princefs Anney born Ottober 22,..1709. Princefs Amelia-Sophia-Eleanora, born May 30, 1711. Princefs Elizabetb-Carolina, born May 30, 1713. Princefs Maria, born February 2,2, 172ft And the Princefs Louifa, born December 7, 17 24. Of the Qu e e n of England, 'when Jhe is Confort only, not Regent. TH E Wordg«e*» comes from the Saxon Cwen, flgnifyinga Woman, as alfo a Wife,and feemsto be applied, in Procefs ©fTime, by our Anceftors, to th e King's Wife, a % Hl&fdig, or Lady, afterwards was, and as Madam, or Madamoifelle, is ufed