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... gracious sovereign , according to our duty and zeal to God and Religion , to your maj . and your safety , to the Church and Common- Wealth , and their peace and prosperity , we have made a faithful Declaration of the present estate ...
... gracious sovereign , according to our duty and zeal to God and Religion , to your maj . and your safety , to the Church and Common- Wealth , and their peace and prosperity , we have made a faithful Declaration of the present estate ...
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... gracious Answer touching Religion , and his Message for the care of our health , do solemnly protest aud vow before God and the world , with one heart and voice , that we are all resolved , and do hereby declare , that we will ever ...
... gracious Answer touching Religion , and his Message for the care of our health , do solemnly protest aud vow before God and the world , with one heart and voice , that we are all resolved , and do hereby declare , that we will ever ...
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... gracious an eye upon so mean a subject ; and to descend so low as , in a service of this importance , to take me into your princely thoughts . And since we all stand for hundreds and thousands , for figures and cyphers , as your maj ...
... gracious an eye upon so mean a subject ; and to descend so low as , in a service of this importance , to take me into your princely thoughts . And since we all stand for hundreds and thousands , for figures and cyphers , as your maj ...
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... gracious goodness of his royal intention , to say unto you , That he doth well know , that there are among you many wise and well tempered men , well affected to the public , and to his maj.'s service ; and that those that are willingly ...
... gracious goodness of his royal intention , to say unto you , That he doth well know , that there are among you many wise and well tempered men , well affected to the public , and to his maj.'s service ; and that those that are willingly ...
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... gracious Sovereign ; Whereas your German princes , and raise a war in Alsatia , of maj . hath been pleased of late , at sundry great consequence to make a diversion . times , and by several means , to impart unto Now about this time the ...
... gracious Sovereign ; Whereas your German princes , and raise a war in Alsatia , of maj . hath been pleased of late , at sundry great consequence to make a diversion . times , and by several means , to impart unto Now about this time the ...
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Page 451 - I came into the House one morning, well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean; and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar : his hat was without a hatband. His stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to his side ; his countenance swollen and reddish; his...
Page 363 - Law of the Land. IV. And in the eight and twentieth Year of the Reign of King Edward the Third, it was declared and enacted by Authority of Parliament, That no Man of what Estate or Condition that he be, should be put out of his Land or Tenements, nor taken nor imprisoned, nor disherited, nor put to Death, without being brought to answer by due Process of Law : V.
Page 363 - And whereas of late great companies of soldiers and mariners have been dispersed into divers counties of the realm, and the inhabitants against their wills have been compelled to receive them into their houses, and there to suffer them to sojourn, against the laws and customs of this realm and to the great grievance and vexation of the people.
Page 363 - Yet nevertheless, of late divers commissions directed to sundry commissioners in several counties with instructions have issued, by means whereof your people have been in divers places assembled, and required to lend certain sums of money unto your majesty, and many of them upon their refusal...
Page 363 - ... before your Privy Council and in other places; and others of them have been therefore imprisoned, confined, and sundry other ways molested and disquieted, and divers other charges have been laid and levied upon your people in several counties by...
Page 803 - Ye are the salt of the earth : but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted ? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Page 363 - ... and condemnation of such offenders, and them to cause to be executed and put to death according to the law martial.
Page 363 - ... or liberties, or his free customs, or be outlawed or exiled, or in any manner destroyed, but by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Page 363 - ... your majesty's writs of habeas corpus, there to undergo and receive as the court should order, and their keepers commanded to certify the causes of their detainer, no cause was certified, but that they were detained by your majesty's special command, signified by the lords of your privy council, and yet were returned back to several prisons, without being charged with any thing to which they might make answer according to the law : VI.
Page 743 - Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sons of men, for in them there is no salvation."*** He was soon able, however, to collect his courage; and he prepared himself to suffer the fatal sentence.