 | 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... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1859 - 820 pages
...assistance! of divers evil counselors, judge.", and ministers employed by him, did endeavor to Hiibvert and extirpate the Protestant religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom : 1. By assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with and suspending of laws, and the execution... | |
 | Homersham Cox - Administrative law - 1863 - 862 pages
...Mary, sess. 2, c. 2, refers to this prosecution, reciting that the late King James II. endeavoured " to subvert and extirpate the Protestant religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom " in various ways mentioned ; one of which is, " By committing and prosecuting divers worthy prelates... | |
 | Ezra Champion Seaman - Constitutional history - 1863 - 312 pages
...by the said lords and commons, in the words following, viz : Whereas the late King James the second, by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges, and ministers employed by him, did endeavor to subvert and extirpate the protestant religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom,... | |
 | John Fulton - Constitutional history - 1864 - 582 pages
...Rights. The substance of this celebrated declaration is as follows : " Whereas the late King James IL, by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges, and ministers employed by him, did endeavor to subvert and extirpate the Protestant religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom,... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 1078 pages
...and Mary. (1) The bill of rights contains an enumeration of the oppressive acts of James 2, tending to subvert and extirpate the Protestant religion, and the laws and liberties of the kingdom ; and the first of them is the assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with and suspending... | |
 | Arthur Bailey Thompson - Great Britain - 1865 - 748 pages
...represent the people of this realm, the bill proceeds to recite that the late King had endeavoured to subvert and extirpate the Protestant religion, and the laws and liberties of the kingdom by various acts. It is then asserted that the throne being vacant the Prince of Orange... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - Constitutional history - 1867 - 426 pages
...the said Lords and Commons, in the words following ; viz. : — Whereas the late King James II., hy the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges,...religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom : — 1. By assuming and exercising a power of dispensing* with and suspending of laws, and the execution... | |
 | David Hume - 1869 - 822 pages
...by the ans»l.-t:ince of divers evil counselors, judges, and ministers employed by him, did endeavor to subvert and extirpate the Protestant religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom: 1. By assuming nnd exercising a power of dispensing with and suspending of laws, and the execution... | |
 | William Stubbs - Constitutional history - 1870 - 568 pages
...Commons, in the words following; viz : — Whereas the late King James II, by the assistance of diverse evil counsellors, judges, and ministers employed by...religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom : — • I. By assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with and suspending of laws, and the... | |
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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. 
