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A BILL INTITULED AN ACT FOR THE NATURALIZA-

TION OF HIS SERENE HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT

OF SAXE COBURG AND GOTHA.
Whereas it hath pleased her Majesty moat graciously
to declare her intention to ally herself in marriage with
the Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha : and
whereas a more grateful proof of the esteem and affec-
tion of the kingdom cannot be given to his Serene
Highness than by an Act of Naturalization to make
him capable of enjoying the rights and liberties which
are enjoyed in this realm. We, your Majesty s most
dutiful and loyal subjects,
Do most humbly beseech your Majesty,
That it may be enacted ; and be it enacted, by
the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with
the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal, and Commons, in this present
Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same,
that Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, when
and so soon as he shall have taken the oaths of alle-
giance and supremacy before the Lord High Chancellor,
which oaths the Lord High Chancellor is hereby author-
ized to administer, shall be to all intents and purposes
whatsoever deemed, taken and esteemed to he a natural-
born subject of this Kingdom, as if his Highness had
been born within this realm ; any law, statute, matter,
or thing to the contrary notwithstanding.
And be it enacted, that the Lord High Chancellor
• shall, immediately after such oaths shall have been
taken before him, certify the same, and cause such cer-
tificate to be recorded in the High Court of Chancery.

THE MARRIAGES ()F KINGS AND
QUEENS, AND THE ENTERTAINMENTS
GIVEN TO THEM IN THE CITY OF LON-
DON.

The following particulars have been extracted from
the Guildhall Record :-
1684.—The Princess Anne married to the brother
of the King of Denmark.
1701, March B.—The Princess Anne of Denmark
was proclaimed Queen on the death of William 111.
March 19.—The Court of Aldermen resolved that
her Majesty's picture should be set up in the Guildhall,
and her statue in the Royal Exchange.
March 24.—A Committee reported to the Court of
Aldermen that they found that the pictures of King
Charles IL, the Duke of York, afterwards King
James 11., and of King William and Queen Mary,
were paid for by the Chamberlain, by order of the
Court of A►dermen, and that the statues of the Kings
and Queens at the Exchange were set up by the Com-
panies, except those of Kin; William and Queen Mary,
which were set up by order of the Common Council,
at the City's charge.

1702, May 19.—The said Court appointed Wm.
Closterman to draw her Majesty's picture, and directed
him to make a sketch thereof in a standing posture, to
be viewed by the Court.
June 2.—The Queen's picture to be drawn in the
posture best pleasing to her Majesty.
1702, Oct. B.—The Court of Aldermen unanimously
resolved that her Majesty be invited at the same time
and place to dinner. They directed the Sheriffs to at-
tend her Majesty to know when and what place she
would please to appoint to be attended by the Lord
Mayor and Aldermen.
And further ordered, upon the Court attending on
the Queen, that after the Recorder has congratulated
her Majesty upon her return, he do humbly desire her
Majesty, in the name of the City, to honour this
City with her Royal presence at dinner, at the Guild-
ball, on Lord Mayor's Day next, and that afterwards
the like invitation be made by them to his Royal
Highness the Prince of Denmark.

1702, Oct. 20.—The Court appointed a Committee
to arrange the entertainment.

Oct. 22.—Reference to them to consider of inviting
the two Houses of Par:iament.

Oct. 23.—Report that, for want of room, they
could not be treated with that honour and grandeur
which was due to those great assemblies ; with which
report the Court acquiesced.
1760, Oct. 25. King George the Second died,
and King George the Third proclaimed on the follow-
ing day.

28.—The Court of Common Council agreed
to an address of condolence and co,gratulation to his
Majesty, and compliments to the Princess Dowager of
Wales.

1761.—The Court of Common Council agreed to
address his Majesty on his most happy marriage, and
to congratulate the Princess Dowager of Wales upon
the same occasion.
Oct. The Court of Common Council una-
nimously resolved to request his Majesty to honour
them with his Royal presence at dinner in the Guild-
hall on the next Lord Mayor's Day, and appointed the
Lord Mayor elect, the Recorder and Sheriffs, attended
by the Remembrancer, to wait upon his Majesty, and
humbly desire him, in the name of the Court, to honour
them with his presence accordingly ; and if his Majesty
should be graciously pleased to accept the same that
they humbly beg leave of his Majesty to wait upon his
Royal Consort, their most gracious Queen, the Princess
Dowager of \Vales, and the rest of the Royal Family,
and desire them to accompany him on that occasion.
1761, Oct. 3.—His Majesty having been pleased to
accept the invitations, a Committee was appointed to
conduct the same.

The succeeding Sovereigns who honoured the citi-
zens with their company, after their accession, also ap-
pointel the Lord Mayor's Day for the entertainment
and no doubt is entertained that her Majesty upon be-'
ing invited after her marriage will appoint the same day
for her visit,