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... clergy , and therefore called it the Millenary petition , though they only obtained seven hundred and fifty- three names . There were others who termed it the Lying petition . They begged for a conference with their opponents , a thing ...
... clergy , and therefore called it the Millenary petition , though they only obtained seven hundred and fifty- three names . There were others who termed it the Lying petition . They begged for a conference with their opponents , a thing ...
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... clergy in rural deaneries and synods , in which he was quite right , the King , who was fresh from the experience of the miseries and brow- beatings he had suffered from the General Assembly , broke forth in a characteristic speech ...
... clergy in rural deaneries and synods , in which he was quite right , the King , who was fresh from the experience of the miseries and brow- beatings he had suffered from the General Assembly , broke forth in a characteristic speech ...
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... clergy , and it is well that they were finally completed when there had been time for some settle- ment of men's minds after the tempests of the Reformation . Richard Bancroft , though promoted to the see of Canterbury in the December ...
... clergy , and it is well that they were finally completed when there had been time for some settle- ment of men's minds after the tempests of the Reformation . Richard Bancroft , though promoted to the see of Canterbury in the December ...
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... clergy , as passed by Convocation , but not on the laity as wanting the authority of Parliament . The Archbishop enforced the canons on the clergy , and those who would not submit , lost their benefices . Accounts vary whether the ...
... clergy , as passed by Convocation , but not on the laity as wanting the authority of Parliament . The Archbishop enforced the canons on the clergy , and those who would not submit , lost their benefices . Accounts vary whether the ...
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... clergy , nor of the nobility , to the remotest generation , were taxed ; the one order being supposed to pray for the State , the other to fight for it ; and Sully , able and honest as he certainly was , could not rise above his genera ...
... clergy , nor of the nobility , to the remotest generation , were taxed ; the one order being supposed to pray for the State , the other to fight for it ; and Sully , able and honest as he certainly was , could not rise above his genera ...
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