Petition for a Bill of Louis Weltje and Alexander von Mayersbach
1786 Jan. 25
A Petition of Louis
Weltje and anr.
Praying that leave
may be given to bring
on a Bill for their
Naturalisation.
25. Janrij 1786.
Presented and Read and
Leave given as desired.
To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal in Parliament Assembled.
The humble Petition of Louis Weltje and
Alexander von Mayersbach.
Sheweth.
That your Petitioners were born out of
your Majesty's Allegiance, but have
consistently professed the true Protestant
Religion, and given Testimony of
their Loyalty and Fidelity to His Majesty
and the Good of this Kingdom.
Your Petitioners therefore humbly
pray your Lordships that Leave
be given to bring in a Bill for their
Naturalization.
And your Petitioners shall
ever Pray.
Louis Weltje [Signature]
Alexander von Mayersbach [Signature]
Humbly Beseech your most Excellent
Majesty the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in
this present Parliament Assembled Louis Weltje Son of Augustus
Weltje by Elizabeth his Wife born at Brunswick in Germany
and Alexander von Mayersbach
Son of Johann Frederick von Mayersbach
by Carolina Sabina his Wife born at
Erlang in Bayreuth out of your Majesty's Allegiance professing
the true Protestant Religion and having given Testimony of
their Loyalty and Fidelity to your Majesty and the good of
the Kingdom of Great Britain That it may be Enacted
And be it Enacted by the King'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 they the
said Louis Weltje and Alexander von Mayersbach shall be
and are hereby from henceforth Naturalized and shall be
adjudged and taken to all Intents and Purposes to be be naturalized
and as free born Subjects of this Kingdom of Great Britain
and they are and each of them shall be from henceforth
adjudged reputed and taken to be in every Condition Respect
and Degree free to all Intents Purposes and Constructions as if
they had been born natural Subjects within this Kingdom of
Great Britain And be it further Enacted Declared and
Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That they the said Louis
Weltje and Alexander von Mayersbach and each of them shall
be and they are hereby enabled and adjudged able to all Intents
Purposes and Constructions whatsoever to inherit and be
inheritable and inherited and to demand challenge ask take
retain have and enjoy all or any Manors Lands Tenements or
Hereditaments Goods Chattels Debts Estates and all other
Privileges and Immunities Benefits and Advantages in
Law or Equity belonging to the Liege People and natural
born Subjects of this Kingdom and to make their resort or
pedigree as Heir to their Ancestors lineal or collateral by reason
of any Descent Remainder Reverter Right Title Conveyance
Legacy or Bequest whatsoever which hath may or shall from
henceforth descend remain revert accrue or grow due unto them
or either of them as also from henceforth to take have retain
keep and enjoy all Manors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments
which they or either of them shall have by way of Purchase
or Gift of any Person or Persons whomsoever and to prosecute
pursue maintain avow justify and defend all and all Manner
of Actions Suits and Causes and all other Things to do as
lawfully liberally freely and surely as if they had been born of
British Parents within this Kingdom and as any Person or
Persons born or derived from British Parents within this
Kingdom may lawfully in any wise do and they the said
Louis Weltje and Alexander von Mayersbach in all Things
and to all Intents and Purposes shall be taken to be and shall
be Natural Liege Subjects of this Kingdom of Great Britain
any Law Act Statute Provision Custom Ordinance or other
Matter or Thing whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding
And be it further Enacted That they the said Louis Weltje
and Alexander von Mayersbach shall not nor shall either of
them hereby be enabled to be of the Privy Council or a Member
or Members of either House of Parliament or to take any
Office or Place of Trust either Civil or Military or to have
any Grant of Lands Tenements or Hereditaments from the
Crown to themselves or any other Person or Persons in Trust
for them or either of them any Thing herein contained to the
contrary nothwithstanding Provided also And be it further
Enacted That they the said Louis Weltje and
Alexander von Mayersbach shall not nor shall either of them hereby
obtain or become entitled to claim within any Foreign Country
any of the Immunities or Indulgencies in Trade which are
or may be enjoyed or claimed therein by Natural born British
Subjects by virtue of any Treaty or otherwise unless they the said
Louis Weltje and Alexander von Mayersbach shall have
inhabited and resided within Great Britain or the Dominions
thereunto belonging for the Space of Seven Years subsequent to
the first day of this present Session of Parliament and shall
not have been absent out of the same for a longer space than
two Months at any one time during the said Seven Years any
Thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
1786 Jan 25
An Act
For Naturalizing Louis
Weltje and
Alexander von Mayersbach.
25 Januarij 1786.
Presented by the Lord
Fortescue [1] (pursuant to an
Order of Leave) and Read the
first Time.
6 Febrij 1786.
Read a second time and
Committed for to Morrow,
8 Febrij 1786.
Reported witht. Amendment
and Order'd to be Ingross'd.
Notes
1.
Lord Fortescue, 2nd Lord Fortescue.
Born 12 March 1753.
In 1785 called to Lords on father's death.
Died 16 June 1841 Castle Hill, Devon.
Source: House of Lords Record Office - HL/PO/JO/10/7/722 25 Jan 1786