Select Documents of English Constitutional History

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George Burton Adams, Henry Morse Stephens
Macmillan, 1916 - Constitutional history - 555 pages

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Page 456 - I, AB, do swear, That I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, that Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, or any authority of the See of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever.
Page 466 - I, AB, do sincerely promise and swear, that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to their majesties, King WILLIAM and Queen MAKY. So help me God.
Page 481 - An Act declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and settling the Succession of the Crown.
Page 360 - I, AB, do in the Presence of Almighty God promise, vow and protest, To maintain and defend as far as lawfully I may, with my life, power and estate, the True Reformed Protestant Religion, expressed in the Doctrine of the Church of England...
Page 456 - I AB do sincerely promise and swear, That I will be faithful, and bear true allegiance, to their Majesties King William and Queen Mary: So help me God.
Page 510 - Dignity; and I will do my utmost Endeavour to disclose and make known to his Majesty, his Heirs...
Page 42 - John, by the grace of God, king of England, lord of Ireland, duke of Normandy and Aquitaine...
Page 394 - These are therefore to will and require you to see the said Sentence executed, in the open Street before Whitehall, upon the morrow, being the Thirtieth day of this instant month of January, between the hours of Ten in the morning and Five in the afternoon, with full effect.
Page 467 - Westminster do resolve that William and Mary, prince and princess of Orange, be and be declared king and queen...
Page 430 - ... unfeigned assent and consent to the use of all things in the said book contained and prescribed in these words and no other. IV. I, AB, do here declare my unfeigned assent and consent to all and everything contained and prescribed in and by the book intituled,

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