The constitutional history of England, from the accession of Henry vii. to the death of George ii. (with the essay of lord Macaulay on Hallam's Constitutional history of England). 2 vols. [in 1].

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Сторінка 391 - Pleasure to be, that the Execution of all, and all manner of Penal Laws in Matters Ecclesiastical, against whatsoever Sort of Non-Conformists or Recusants, be immediately suspended, and they are hereby suspended...
Сторінка 17 - ... and by law compel the doing thereof, in case of refusal or refractoriness? And whether, in such case, is not the king the sole judge both of the danger, and when and | how the same is to be prevented and avoided...
Сторінка 163 - We shall with the same sincerity, reality and constancy, in our several vocations, endeavour with our estates and lives mutually to preserve the rights and privileges of the Parliaments, and the liberties of the kingdoms...
Сторінка 21 - Majesty, that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by act of Parliament...
Сторінка 317 - ... 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...
Сторінка 204 - I am endeavouring to get to London, so that the conditions may be such as a gentleman may own, and that the rebels may acknowledge me king; being not without hope that I shall be able so to draw either the presbyterians or independents to side with me for extirpating one or the other, that I shall be really king again.
Сторінка 423 - We have here a mighty work upon our hands, no less than the conversion of three kingdoms, and by that perhaps the utter subduing of a pestilent heresy, which has a long time domineered over a great part of this northern world. There were never such hopes of success since the days of Queen Mary, as now in our days. God has given us a prince...
Сторінка 48 - I know no reason, then, but you may as well rule the common lawyers in England, as I, poor beagle, do here ; and yet that I do, and will do, in all that concerns my master s service, upon the peril of my head.
Сторінка 367 - That he hath advised and procured divers of his Majesty's subjects to be imprisoned, against law, in remote islands, garrisons and other places, thereby to prevent them from the benefit of the law, and to introduce precedents for imprisoning any other of his Majesty's subjects in like manner.
Сторінка 329 - AB, do declare 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...

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