Claim of Right Act 1689
By Erecting publick schooles and societies of the Jesuites and...
By allowing popish bookes to be printed and dispersed by...
By takeing the children of Protestant Noblemen and gentlemen sending...
By Dissarmeing protestants while at the same tyme he Imployed...
By Imposeing oathes Contrair to law
By Giveing gifts and grants for exacting money without consent...
By levying or Keeping on foot a standing army in...
By Imploying the officers of the army as Judges through...
By imposeing exorbitant fines to the value of the pairties...
By Imprisoning persones without expressing the reasone and delaying to...
By Causeing persue and forefault severall persones upon stretches of...
By Subverting the right of the Royal Burghs The third...
By Sending letters to the chiefe Courts of Justice not...
By granting personall protectiones for civill Debts contrair to Law...
All which are utterly and directly contrairy to the knoune...
Therfor the Estates of the kingdom of Scotland Find and...
And wheras His Royall Highness William then Prince of Orange...
That by the law of this Kingdome no papist can...
That all Proclamationes asserting ane absolute power to Cass annull...
That the allowing Popish bookes to be printed and Dispersed...
That the takeing the children of Noblemen Gentlemen and others...
That the Dissarming of protestants and Imploying papists in the...
That the Imposeing oathes without authority of Parliament is Contrair...
That the giveing gifts or grants for raiseing of money...
That the Imploying the officers of the army as Judges...
That the Imposeing of extraordinary fynes The exacting of exorbitant...
That the Imprisoning persones without expressing the reason therof and...
That the causeing persue and forefault persones upon stretches of...
That the nominating and Imposeing the magistrats councils and clerks...
That the Sending letters to the courts of Justice Ordaining...
That the granting personall protectiones for civil Debts is contrary...
That the forceing the leidges to Depone against themselves in...
That the useing torture without evidence or in ordinary Crymes...
That the Sending of ane army in ane hostile manner...
That the chargeing of the leidges with lawborrowes at the...
That the putting of Garisones on privat mens houses in...
That the opinions of the Lords of Sessione in the...
That the fyneing husbands for ther wives withdrawing from the...
That Prelacy and the superiority of any office in the...
That it is the right and priviledge of the subjects...
That it is the right of the subjects to petition...
That for redress of all greivances and for the amending...
And they Doe Claim Demand and insist upon all and...
To which Demand of ther rights and redressing of their...
Haveing therfor ane entire confidence that his said Majesty the...
The said Estates of the Kingdome of Scotland Doe resolve...
And they do Pray the said King and Queen of...
And that the Oath hereafter mentioned by taken by all...
I A : B : Do sincerly promise and swear...

Claim of Right Act 1689
1689 c. 28
The Declaration of the Estates of the Kingdom of Scotland containing the Claim of Right and the offer of the Croune to the King and Queen of England.
Wheras King James the Seventh Being a profest papist did assume the Regall power and acted as King without ever takeing the oath required by law wherby the King at his access to the government is obliged to swear To maintain the protestant religion and to rule the people according to the laudable lawes And Did By the advyce of wicked and evill Counsellers Invade the fundamentall Constitution of this Kingdome And altered it from a legall limited monarchy to ane Arbitrary Despotick power and in a publick proclamation asserted ane absolute power to cass annull and dissable all the lawes particularly arraigning the lawes Establishing the protestant religion and did Exerce that power to the subversion of the protestant Religion and to the violation of the lawes and liberties of the Kingdome
Short title given by Statute Law Revision (Scotland) Act 1964 (c. 80), Sch. 2
This act is listed in 12mo edition as 1689 c. 13.