Claim of Right Act 1689
40
- Jurisdiction
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Provision
- 40
- Source language
- English
- Recorded status
- in force
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- Recorded status
- in force
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Official sourceThat Prelacy and the superiority of any office in the Church above presbyters is and hath been a great and insupportable greivance and trouble to this Nation and contrary to the Inclinationes of the generality of the people ever since the reformatione (they haveing reformed from popery by presbyters) and therfor ought to be abolished
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Claim of Right Act 1689 · legislation.gov.uk · Retrieved 17 August 2026.
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