Jacobite line of succession to the English and Scottish thrones in 1714 Jacobite line of succession to the English and Scottish thrones in 1714 The following is the Jacobite line of succession to the English and Scottish thrones as of the death of Anne, Queen of Great Britain, on 1 August 1714. It reflects the laws current in England and Scotland immediately before the Act of Settlement 1701, which disqualified Catholics from the throne. Queen Anne of Great Britain was the last monarch of the House of Stuart which had succeeded the House of Tudor with the death of Elizabeth I. All of Anne's children died before age 12, resulting in a
Brittonicisms in English Breton. All continental languages do have external possessors, including the Scandinavian languages (e.g. Swedish: internal - "Hon tvättade hans hår"; external - "Hon tvättade håret på honom"). Old English used the external possessor, e.g., "Seo cwen het þa þæm cyninge þæt heafod of aceorfan", literally "The Queen ordered them the King the head to cut off", which is perfectly parallel to modern German: "Die Königin hieß sie, dem König den Kopf ab(zu)schneiden." Modern English must use the internal possessor: "The Queen ordered them to cut off the King's head". The statistical bias towards use of tag questions and answers in