The English Constitution in the Reign of King Charles the SecondV. and R. Stevens, [etc.,etc.]; Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and Company, 1857 - Constitutional history - 328 pages |
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... Majesty's Declaration , ' though every good subject ought to be careful how he calls it so : for his Majesty never speaks to his people as a king , but either personally in his parliament , or , at other times , under his seal , for ...
... Majesty's Declaration , ' though every good subject ought to be careful how he calls it so : for his Majesty never speaks to his people as a king , but either personally in his parliament , or , at other times , under his seal , for ...
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... Majesty's measures , and even against those who heard such discourses , unless they gave information in due time of offenders . Andrew Marvell writes to the Mayor of Hull , in the year 1672 , “ There was the other day a severe ...
... Majesty's measures , and even against those who heard such discourses , unless they gave information in due time of offenders . Andrew Marvell writes to the Mayor of Hull , in the year 1672 , “ There was the other day a severe ...
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... Majesty , upon peril of the utmost rigor of the law that may be inflicted for the same . " Sir Matthew Hale laid down the law of Proclamations ( as is observed ... Majesty's royal authority . " Pepys mentions in his Diary THE SOVEREIGN . 27.
... Majesty , upon peril of the utmost rigor of the law that may be inflicted for the same . " Sir Matthew Hale laid down the law of Proclamations ( as is observed ... Majesty's royal authority . " Pepys mentions in his Diary THE SOVEREIGN . 27.
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Andrew Amos. Majesty's royal authority . " Pepys mentions in his Diary , that he narrowly escaped being put to great ... Majesty by his Prerogative . " There are frequent allusions to this lost dinner in the fugitive pieces of the Tory ...
Andrew Amos. Majesty's royal authority . " Pepys mentions in his Diary , that he narrowly escaped being put to great ... Majesty by his Prerogative . " There are frequent allusions to this lost dinner in the fugitive pieces of the Tory ...
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... Majesty's person and government against trea- sonable and seditious practices and attempts . " Its operation is limited to the life of the king ( whom , the Act prays Almighty God to preserve and bless with a long and prosperous reign ) ...
... Majesty's person and government against trea- sonable and seditious practices and attempts . " Its operation is limited to the life of the king ( whom , the Act prays Almighty God to preserve and bless with a long and prosperous reign ) ...
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Page 240 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 93 - AB do here declare my unfeigned assent and consent to all and everything contained and prescribed in and by the Book entitled the Book of Common Prayer,' and administration of the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England, together with the psalter or psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches, and the form or manner of making, ordaining and consecrating of bishops, priests and deacons.
Page 186 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Page 236 - That levying money for or to the use of the Crown, by pretence of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for longer time or in other manner than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Page 172 - Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord. Wherefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, O king Agrippa, that, after examination had, I might have somewhat to write.
Page 180 - By a daisy, whose leaves spread, Shut when Titan goes to bed ; Or a shady bush or tree, She could more infuse in me, Than all nature's beauties can In some other wiser man. By her help I also now Make this churlish place allow Some things that may sweeten gladness, In the very gall of sadness. The dull loneness, the black shade, That these hanging vaults have made ; The strange music of the waves, Beating on these hollow caves...
Page 238 - Truth and understanding are not such wares as to be monopolized and traded in by tickets, and statutes, and standards. We must not think to make a staple commodity of all the knowledge in the land, to mark and license it like our broadcloth and our woolpacks.
Page 144 - I, AB, do solemnly and sincerely, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, that I do believe, that, in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, there is not any transubstantiation of the elements of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, at or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever...
Page 136 - I, AB, do declare that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take arms against the king, and that I do abhor that traitorous position of taking arms by his authority against his person or against those that are commissioned by him...
Page 113 - Hear your judgment. You must be had back again to prison, and there lie for three months following ; and at three months' end, if you do not submit to go to church to hear divine service, and leave your preaching, you must be banished the realm : and if, after such a day as shall be appointed you to be gone, you shall be found in this realm, or be found to come over again without special license from the king, you must stretch by the neck for it ; I tell you plainly.