Sentence examples for the third succession from inspiring English sources

On 17 June 1553 the king made his will noting Jane would succeed him, contravening the Third Succession Act.

Under the Third Succession Act, passed in 1543 by the Parliament of England, Elizabeth was recognised as her sister's heir, and Henry VIII's last will and testament had excluded the Stuarts from succeeding to the English throne.

"It will be the first succession most people will remember and the first of the modern democratic era.

The party elite is all the more nervous because this is the first succession not ordained by the founders of the People's Republic.

Lincoln now join Darlington and Chester as the only clubs to have been relegated from the Football League twice while Barnet secured safety on the last day for the second succession season.

Read the second, "Succession Planning: How To Do It Right," here.

The first, "Succession Planning: How Everyone Does It Wrong," appears here.

That was the first succession of gunshots maybe 15 or so.

At the time of Richmond's death in June 1536, Parliament was enacting the Second Succession Act, which could have allowed him to become king.

This was followed by the Second Succession Act (the Act of Succession 1536), which declared Henry's children by Jane to be next in the line of succession and declared both Mary and Elizabeth illegitimate, thus excluding them from the throne.

The following spring, he restored them to their place in the succession with a Third Succession Act, which also provided for a regency council during Edward's minority.