History of Great Britain, from the Revolution, 1688, to the Concluding of the Treaty of Amiens, 1802, Volume 1R. Phillips, 1806 |
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William Belsham. Page State of Europe Projects of the prince of Orange . Terrors of the king . The prince of Orange lands at Torbay King leaves Whitehall .... 84 84 86 86 88 The throne declared vacant , and the prince and princess of Orange ...
William Belsham. Page State of Europe Projects of the prince of Orange . Terrors of the king . The prince of Orange lands at Torbay King leaves Whitehall .... 84 84 86 86 88 The throne declared vacant , and the prince and princess of Orange ...
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... king James by Louis XI ......... 160 Invasion of Ireland by the French 161 Treachery of Tyrconnel ..... 162 King ... William ... 195 Siege of Athlone raised : 196 -and of Limerick . 197 King returns to England ...... Page 198 Earl of ...
... king James by Louis XI ......... 160 Invasion of Ireland by the French 161 Treachery of Tyrconnel ..... 162 King ... William ... 195 Siege of Athlone raised : 196 -and of Limerick . 197 King returns to England ...... Page 198 Earl of ...
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William Belsham. INTRODUCTION , CONTAINING A SUMMARY OF AFFAIRS From 1660 to 1688 . Character of King Charles II . His discreet Appointment of Ministers . Character of the Earl of Clarendon . Change of Measures . Act of Uniformity ...
William Belsham. INTRODUCTION , CONTAINING A SUMMARY OF AFFAIRS From 1660 to 1688 . Character of King Charles II . His discreet Appointment of Ministers . Character of the Earl of Clarendon . Change of Measures . Act of Uniformity ...
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William Belsham. of King Charles II . New Court of Ecclesiastical Commission . Bishop of London suspended . Vice - Chancellor of Cambridge ejected from his Office . President and Fellows of Magdalen College , Oxford , expelled ...
William Belsham. of King Charles II . New Court of Ecclesiastical Commission . Bishop of London suspended . Vice - Chancellor of Cambridge ejected from his Office . President and Fellows of Magdalen College , Oxford , expelled ...
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William Belsham. the religion , laws , and liberties of his kingdom . The ... king for the purposes of subverting the republic of Holland , of making the authority of Charles absolute ... king had the 14 INTRODUCTION . King becomes a catholic.
William Belsham. the religion , laws , and liberties of his kingdom . The ... king for the purposes of subverting the republic of Holland , of making the authority of Charles absolute ... king had the 14 INTRODUCTION . King becomes a catholic.
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Page 441 - To subject the press to the restrictive power of a licenser, as was formerly done, both before and since the Revolution, is to subject all freedom of sentiment to the prejudices of one man, and make him the arbitrary and infallible judge of all controverted points in learning, religion and government.
Page 534 - To which demand of their rights they are particularly encouraged by the declaration of His Highness the Prince of Orange as being the only means for obtaining a full redress and remedy therein. Having therefore an entire confidence that His said Highness the Prince of Orange...
Page 533 - January, in this year one thousand six hundred eighty and eight, in order to such an establishment, as that their religion, laws, and liberties might not again be in danger of being subverted ; upon which letters, elections have been accordingly made. And thereupon the said lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, pursuant...
Page 534 - That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted; 11. That jurors ought to be duly impanelled and returned, and jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders; 12.
Page 150 - O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou thyself movest alone; who can be a companion of thy course? The oaks of the mountains fall ; the mountains themselves decay with years ; the ocean shrinks, and grows again; the moon herself is lost in heaven.
Page 534 - That the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament. That excessive bail ought not to be required nor excessive fines imposed nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Page 129 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal.
Page 130 - And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises, as their undoubted rights and liberties; and that no declarations, judgments, doings or proceedings, to the prejudice of the people in any of the said premises, ought in any wise to be drawn hereafter into consequence or example.
Page 532 - And excessive bail hath been required of persons committed in criminal cases, to elude the benefit of the laws made for the liberty of the subjects.
Page 531 - 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.