| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1808 - 740 pages
...mentioned, for indulgence to Dissenters ; and we find ourselves bound in duty to inform your majesty, that penal statutes, in matters Ecclesiastical, cannot be suspended but by act of parliament. — We, therefore, do most humbly beseech your majesty, that the said laws may have their... | |
| William Harris - 1814 - 396 pages
...address, Feb. 14th following; in which they say, " we find ourselves bound in duty to inform your majesty, that penal statutes, in matters ecclesiastical, cannot be suspended but by act of parliament." The king was not well pleased with this address, but seemed to insist on his dispensing... | |
| Daniel Neal - Great Britain - 1817 - 506 pages
...in the act of uniformity ; and therefore, upon the. Whole, they came to this resolution Feb. 10, " that penal statutes in matters ecclesiastical cannot be suspended but by act of parliament ; that no such power had ever been claimed by any of his majesty's predecessors, and therefore... | |
| Daniel Neal - Great Britain - 1817 - 508 pages
...clause in the act of uniformity ; and therefore, upon the whole, they came to this resolution Feb. 10, " that penal statutes in matters ecclesiastical cannot be suspended but by act of parliament ; that no such power had ever been claimed by any of his majesty's predecessors, and therefore... | |
| Earl John Russell Russell - Great Britain - 1819 - 368 pages
...desired their interests might not be considered by the House of Commons. An address was voted, declaring that penal statutes, in matters ecclesiastical, cannot be suspended, but by act of parliament. Clifford attacked this vote violently in the House of Lords; but Shaftesbury, who had been... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1834 - 394 pages
...prerogative and the enmity to the Church of Rome. An address was presented e to the King, " to inform him that penal statutes in matters ecclesiastical cannot be suspended but by act of parliament." The King returned an evasive answer ; and the House presented another address, declaring... | |
| sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 pages
...prerogative and the enmity to the Church of Rome. An address was presented e to the King, " to inform him that penal statutes in matters ecclesiastical cannot be suspended but by act of parliament." The King returned an evasive answer ; and the House presented another address, dedaring... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1835 - 376 pages
...enmity CHAP. v. to the Church of Rome. An address was presented" to the King, ' ' ' " to inform him that penal statutes in matters ecclesiastical cannot be suspended but by act of parliament." The King returned an evasive answer ; and the House presented another address, declaring... | |
| Luke Howard - 1835 - 462 pages
...Commons " Feb. 10th 1673, After a long and adjourned debate it was resolved, by a majority of 168 to 116, that 'penal statutes in matters Ecclesiastical cannot be suspended but by Act of Parliament ; ' and this resolution was embodied in an address presented to the king." Lingard, vol.... | |
| Dionysius Lardner - Great Britain - 1838 - 404 pages
...Long Parliament, February 4, 1672-3. .Parl. Hist. iv. 501. Com. Journ. ix. 245. Lords, xii. 521. 1 On the 15th of March. ** Journ. ix. 251., Feb. 10....committee to draw up an address on the vote, " That penal statute?, in matters ecclesiastical, cannot be suspended but by act of parliament." maintain that form... | |
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