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Yet this was deletion not /deletion materiall deletion further than /deletionaddition only /addition as it affected her & her Mother in point of Honor, because legitimate or illegitimate ye Crown was setled upon her, & therefore Queen Elizabeth never repealed that part of it which related to her own Legitimacy.

In ye present deletion unclear /deletion addition case /addition, where the Power of ye Prince & ye extent of his Dominions would be directly concerned if there should be ye like inclinations to a repeal, ye way is chalked out already.

There was but one thing more thought of under this head; which was, to make it a forfeiture of the Crown not to renounce in a time to be fixed, & that for defalt of Renunciation at that time, ye next in course of descent should succeed to ye Crown as if the Person so making defalt were naturally dead.

The inconvenienceys of that were ^ addition not /addition particularly considered, because it was plain yt it would be liable to be defeated in like manner by a Repeal.

2 The other Method spoken of was to require the elder of ye two Princes, sons of ye deceased King to make ye Renunciation previous to deletion be /deletion his being King, yt is, to make ye eldest son incapable of ye Crown till he renounce ye Electorate, making his renunciation a necessary preliminary to his succeeding to ye Crown by providing, yt when a King shall dye leaving two sons (not yet born) ye eldest, previous to his being King, or having ye Regall Power vested in him, shall renounce ye Electorate &c & yt if he refuse ye Younger & his male descendts shall succeed preferably to the elder & his male descendts

But then a question arose whether ye danger attending this Method would not over ballance ye Advantages of it.

The obvious objection to it was ye great violation it would be of ye Constitution in a very important point by not fixing ye regall Power in ye Successor ye moment ye