The History of the Desertion,: Or an Account of All the Publick Affairs in England, from the Beginning of September 1688. to the Twelfth of February Following. With an Answer to a Piece Call'd The Desertion Discussed: in a Letter to a Country Gentleman |
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... most Potent of our Neighbours , was apparently engag'd in the fame Defign ; Denmark and Swe- den engaged against each other in the Quarrel of the Duke of Holftein . The Proteftant Princes in Germany were either awed by the French , or ...
... most Potent of our Neighbours , was apparently engag'd in the fame Defign ; Denmark and Swe- den engaged against each other in the Quarrel of the Duke of Holftein . The Proteftant Princes in Germany were either awed by the French , or ...
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... most fuitable for the Kings Service , and to fuppor our Honours ; or that we may be permitted , with all imaganable Duty and Refpect , to lay down our Commissions . The Account of this Oppofition being_forthwith fent to Windfor , where ...
... most fuitable for the Kings Service , and to fuppor our Honours ; or that we may be permitted , with all imaganable Duty and Refpect , to lay down our Commissions . The Account of this Oppofition being_forthwith fent to Windfor , where ...
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... most holy Catholick Faith you were baptised , and in which you were educated , and to which it is our daily earnest Prayer to God , that you may be re - united . Thefe , Sir , are the humble Advices , which out of Conscience of the Duty ...
... most holy Catholick Faith you were baptised , and in which you were educated , and to which it is our daily earnest Prayer to God , that you may be re - united . Thefe , Sir , are the humble Advices , which out of Conscience of the Duty ...
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... most of all by hindring the fecuring the chief of the difaffected Nobility and Gentry , which was propofed as a certain way to break all the Prince's Measures ; and by ad- vifing his Majefty to call a Free - Parliament , and to depend ...
... most of all by hindring the fecuring the chief of the difaffected Nobility and Gentry , which was propofed as a certain way to break all the Prince's Measures ; and by ad- vifing his Majefty to call a Free - Parliament , and to depend ...
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... most earnestly invited hither by divers of the Lords both Spiritual and Temporal , and by many Gentlemen and others . The King fent for fome of the Bishops again , and required of them a Paper under their hands in abhorrence of the ...
... most earnestly invited hither by divers of the Lords both Spiritual and Temporal , and by many Gentlemen and others . The King fent for fome of the Bishops again , and required of them a Paper under their hands in abhorrence of the ...
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Page 129 - That levying money for or to the use of the crown, by pretence of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for longer time, or in other manner, than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Page 128 - And several grants and promises made of fines and forfeitures, before any conviction or judgment against the persons, upon whom the same were to be levied. All which are utterly and directly contrary to the known laws and statutes, and freedom of this realm.
Page 129 - 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.
Page 131 - 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. And I do declare, That no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm : So help me...
Page 128 - And whereas the said late King James the Second having abdicated the Government and the Throne being thereby vacant His Highness the Prince of Orange (whom it hath pleased Almighty God to make the glorious Instrument of Delivering this Kingdom from Popery and Arbitrary Power) did (by the advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and divers principal Persons of the Commons) cause letters...
Page 53 - the power of the twelve judges to offer up the laws, rights, and liberties of the whole nation to the King...
Page 130 - That William and Mary Prince and Princess of Orange be and be declared King and Queen of England France and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging...
Page 68 - We are confident that no persons can have such hard thoughts of us as to imagine that we have any other design in this undertaking, than to procure a settlement of the religion, and of the liberties and properties of the subjects, upon so sure a foundation, that there may be no danger of the nation's relapsing into the like miseries at any time hereafter.
Page 127 - By levying money for and to the use of the Crown by pretence of prerogative for other time and in other manner than the same was granted by Parliament; 5.
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.