OCR GCSE History A · J410
Paper 2, Paper 3
Revise: The Glorious Revolution and 18th Century GovernanceThe Act of Settlement in 1701 further demonstrated Parliament’s influence. With no surviving child of Mary and the death of Anne’s surviving son in 1700, the future Protestant succession was uncertain. The Act directed the succession after William and Anne to Sophia of Hanover and her Protestant heirs.
- Revise: The English Successions and the Settlement of Ireland
The law passed by the English Parliament in 1701 that designated Sophia of Hanover and her Protestant heirs as successors to the Crown after the existing line of succession. It reinforced a Protestant monarchy and parliamentary control over succession.