A history of England from the first invasion by the Romans, Volume 12

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A. and W. Galignani, 1829 - Great Britain
 

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Page 381 - Louis, par la grâce de Dieu, roi de France et de Navarre...
Page 66 - ... a Liberty to Tender Consciences and that no man shall be disquieted or called in question for differences of opinion in matters of religion which do not disturb the peace of the kingdom...
Page 275 - We do in the next place declare our will and pleasure to be that the execution of all and all manner of penal laws in matters ecclesiastical, against whatsoever sort of nonconformists or recusants...
Page 342 - I, AB, do declare and believe that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take arms against the king, and that I do abhor that traitorous position of taking arms by his authority against his person, or against those that are commissioned by him. So help me God.
Page 275 - ... we think ourselves obliged to make use of that supreme power in ecclesiastical matters which is not only inherent in us, but hath been declared and recognized to be so by several Statutes and Acts of Parliament...
Page 368 - You know how true a friend I have been to you; if you will oblige me eternally, make this business as easy...
Page 201 - ... neither the Judges nor any present at the trial did believe him guilty, but that he was a poor distracted wretch weary of his life, and chose to part with it this way.
Page 367 - ... 2°. All laws, levies of moneys, war and peace ought to be made by the people's deputies in parliament, to be chosen by them successively at certain periods. Therefore there should be no negative of a monarch, because he will frequently by that means consult his own interest, or that of his family to the prejudice of the people. But it would be well if the deputies of the people were divided into two bodies, one of which should propose the laws, and the other adopt or reject them.
Page 52 - I could at one time tell thirty-one fires. In King-street seven or eight ; and all along burning, and roasting, and drinking for rumps ; there being rumps tied upon sticks and carried up and down.
Page 383 - Si donnons en mandement à nos âmes et féaux les gens tenant nos cours de parlement...

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