The History of the Desertion,: Or an Account of All the Publick Affairs in England, from the Beginning of September 1688. to the Twelfth of February Following. With an Answer to a Piece Call'd The Desertion Discussed: in a Letter to a Country Gentleman |
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... fundata legibus Civitas , everfa legibus videretur . C. Plin . Pan . Trajan . Cap . XXXIV . London , Printed for Ric . Chilwell at the Rofe and Crown in St. Paul's Church - yard . MDCLXXXIX . PULIS К BRARY 243126BE TH ANTON BRA AL T.LGED ...
... fundata legibus Civitas , everfa legibus videretur . C. Plin . Pan . Trajan . Cap . XXXIV . London , Printed for Ric . Chilwell at the Rofe and Crown in St. Paul's Church - yard . MDCLXXXIX . PULIS К BRARY 243126BE TH ANTON BRA AL T.LGED ...
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... London , Winchester , Ely , Chichester , Rochester and Bristol , and the Arch- bishop of Canterbury ; and the 28th of Septemb . they appeared at Whitehall , and there waited accordingly that day upon the King in a Body ; Winchester ...
... London , Winchester , Ely , Chichester , Rochester and Bristol , and the Arch- bishop of Canterbury ; and the 28th of Septemb . they appeared at Whitehall , and there waited accordingly that day upon the King in a Body ; Winchester ...
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... London ; fo that the next day the Bifhops turned that Request into Thanks , for having prevented their Petition . The Minifters by this time became fo fenfible of their Dan- ger , and of the temper of the Nation , that the 2d . day of ...
... London ; fo that the next day the Bifhops turned that Request into Thanks , for having prevented their Petition . The Minifters by this time became fo fenfible of their Dan- ger , and of the temper of the Nation , that the 2d . day of ...
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... London , Winchester , Afaph , Ely , Chichester , Rochester , Bath and Wells , and Peterborough , all in a Body wait- ed upon the King , when the Archbishop fpoke thus to him . May it please Your Sacred Majefty , Bath & Wells . WHen I ...
... London , Winchester , Afaph , Ely , Chichester , Rochester , Bath and Wells , and Peterborough , all in a Body wait- ed upon the King , when the Archbishop fpoke thus to him . May it please Your Sacred Majefty , Bath & Wells . WHen I ...
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... London , which we intended to have made other- wife one of our principal Requests . IX . That if it fo please your Majefty , Writs may be issued out with convenient fpeed , for the calling of a free and regular Parlia- ment , in which ...
... London , which we intended to have made other- wife one of our principal Requests . IX . That if it fo please your Majefty , Writs may be issued out with convenient fpeed , for the calling of a free and regular Parlia- ment , in which ...
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Page 129 - 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 128 - And several grants and promises made of fines and forfeitures, before any conviction or judgment against the persons, upon whom the same were to be levied. All which are utterly and directly contrary to the known laws and statutes, and freedom of this realm.
Page 129 - That the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.
Page 131 - That I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, that Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, or any authority of the See of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever. And I do declare, That no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm : So help me...
Page 128 - And whereas the said late King James the Second having abdicated the Government and the Throne being thereby vacant His Highness the Prince of Orange (whom it hath pleased Almighty God to make the glorious Instrument of Delivering this Kingdom from Popery and Arbitrary Power) did (by the advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and divers principal Persons of the Commons) cause letters...
Page 53 - the power of the twelve judges to offer up the laws, rights, and liberties of the whole nation to the King...
Page 130 - That William and Mary Prince and Princess of Orange be and be declared King and Queen of England France and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging...
Page 68 - We are confident that no persons can have such hard thoughts of us as to imagine that we have any other design in this undertaking, than to procure a settlement of the religion, and of the liberties and properties of the subjects, upon so sure a foundation, that there may be no danger of the nation's relapsing into the like miseries at any time hereafter.
Page 127 - By levying money for and to the use of the Crown by pretence of prerogative for other time and in other manner than the same was granted by Parliament; 5.
Page 130 - And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted rights and liberties, and that no declarations, judgments, doings or proceedings to the prejudice of the people in any of the said premises ought in any wise to be drawn hereafter into consequence or example.