PREFACE TO THIS VOLUME.
THE Ninth Volume of the Statutes of the Realm contains the Statutes from the Commencement of the Seventh Year of Queen Anne, A.D. 1708, to the End of the Reign of the same Queen.
It is proper to observe, that the Year of the Reign of Queen Anne which in this Authentic Edition of the Statutes is intituled the Thirteenth Year, is, in the Common printed Editions, called 12 Ann. stat. 2.: in conformity to the Principle laid down by the Authority under which this Great Work has been hitherto prosecuted, the Record has on this, as on all other Occasions, been consulted, and it has been found that the Roll which commenced with the Act for granting a Land Tax for the Year 1714, is indorsed, First Part 13 Ann. It has been thought fit, however, to continue the Reference from the Chapters, which in this Edition are designated as of 13 Ann., to the corresponding Chapters that are stated in the Common printed Editions as of 12 Ann. stat. 2.
Three Engravings, the First, of the Act, For preserving the Privileges of Ambassadors and other public Ministers of Foreign Princes and States; the Second, of the Act To make an Attempt on the Life of a Privy Counsellor in the Execution of his Office to be Felony without Benefit of Clergy; and the Third, of the Act For settling the Precedence of The most Excellent Princess Sophia, Electress and Duchess Dowager of Hanover, of the Elector her Son, and of the Electoral Prince the Duke of Cambridge, are inserted respectively at Pages 81, 479, and 556, of this Volume.
London, JOHN RAITHBY,
March, 1822. Sub-Commmissioner.
