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(12) but yt ye good & great Prince who passed this Act did not then foresee ye present state of Affairs, [[deletion]] [[unclear]] [[/deletion]] shewing or pretending to shew materiall differences in ye situation of Affaires, & adding yt had ye State of Affaires at ye time of passing that Act been ye same as that Young King found them, yt Act wd never have been thought of. And it was very much doubted whether after this, ye Young King might make any difficulty to consent to ye Repeal of this Act, or ye Parliamt be backward at making their complement to him therein There did not occurre any method suffict to prevent the Repeale of ye Act. A clause to make an Attempt to repeal it High Treason was mentioned, but at ye same time it could not but be owned, that a method had been actually put in practise in England to break through it One Act for setling ye Succession of ye Crown in ye Reign of King Henry 8 declared his Marriage w/ his first [[deletion]] Queen [[/deletion]] wife Queen Katherine void, & her divorce valid, & his daughter by her illegitimate. Another declared both his marriages with his 1st & w/ his 2d Queen to be null & void & his [[deletion]] two [[/deletion]] daughters by them who were afterwards Queen Mary & Queen Elizabeth to be illegitimate & made it High Treason to go about to repeal it. The two daughters were afterwards by another Act let into the Succession by name, without repealing the former Act. But when Queen Mary came to ye Crown it was thought fit to repeal so much of it as related to ye Marriage of her Mother & her own Legitimacy, & ye Method taken was this. When her first Parliamt met, an Act was passed, yt nothing should be High Treason but what was so declared by a Law made for yt purpose in the 25th yeare of Edwd 3d, & then ye Parliamt before any thing else done was prorogued for 3 days, & the penalty being thus gone, at their meeting again ye Act of Henry 8 was repealed, & her mother's marriage declared good & she legitimate.