 | William Smyth - History, Modern - 1854 - 554 pages
...of England on this great occasion. " Whereas the late king, James II., by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges, and ministers employed by...religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom; By assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with, and suspending of laws, and the execution of... | |
 | Edward Muscutt - 1857 - 424 pages
...the record that— " The late King James the Second, by the assistance of divers evil councillors, judges, and ministers employed by him, did endeavour...religion and the laws and liberties of this kingdom." His miserable government brought about THE REVOLUTIONAD 1688. THE determination of parliament, in calling... | |
 | American Orators - 1857 - 668 pages
...at Westminster, on the twelfth day of February, 1688, declared that James was guilty. "By assnming, and exercising a power of dispensing with, and suspending of laws, and the execution of laws, withont consent of Parliament: "By committing and prosecuting divers worthy prelates, for humbly petitioning... | |
 | American Orators - 1857 - 610 pages
...Commons, assembled at Westminster, on the twelfth day of February, 1688, declared that James was guilty. ce to prevent its bursting into t he execution of laws, without consent of Parliament: " By committing and prosecuting divers worthy... | |
 | Francis Lancelott - Queens - 1858 - 604 pages
...Princess ; which begins in these words : ' Whereas the late King James II., by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges, and ministers employed by...religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom :' which is there made out, by an enumeration of sundry particulars. And not long after, there are... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1858 - 560 pages
...read by the Clerk of the House of Lords : " Whereas the late king James, by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges, and ministers employed by...endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant religiou, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom : By assuming and exercising a power of dispensing... | |
 | Rollin Carlos Hurd - Extradition - 1858 - 714 pages
...Independence, recites the injuries and usurpations of the late King James II., by which he " did endeavor to subvert and extirpate the Protestant religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom," and then " for the vindicating their ancient rights and liberties," " as their ancestors in like case... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1859 - 824 pages
...judgps, and ministers employed by him, did endeavor to subvert ami extirpate the Protestant rrllgion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom : 1. By assuming and exercising a power of dispensing witli and suspending of laws, and tin; execution of laws, without consent of Parliament. 2. By cnmmltting... | |
 | David Rowland - Constitutional history - 1859 - 606 pages
...constitutional document as follows : — " Whereas the late King James II., by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges, and ministers employed by him, did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the protestaut religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom, "1. By assuming and exercising a power... | |
 | Joshua Toulmin Smith - 1859 - 206 pages
...day took place because, as it is expressed in the Bill of Rights itself, King James had " endeavoured to subvert and extirpate the Protestant religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom." Some particular instances of this are then enumerated ; whereupon, " the lords spiritual and temporal... | |
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Whereas the late king James the Second by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges and ministers employed by him did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant religion and the laws and liberties of this kingdom. 
