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Page 34 - That the pretended power of suspending laws, and the execution of laws, by regal authority without consent of parliament, is illegal ; That the pretended power of dispensing with laws by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal ; That the commission for creating the late court of commissioners for ecclesiastical causes, and all other commissions and courts of the like nature, are illegal and pernicious...
Page 31 - Act, have been required to take the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the Rites or Usage of the Church of England...
Page 34 - 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 35 - Act shall take effect all Matters and Things relating to the well governing of this Kingdom which are properly cognizable in the Privy Council by the Laws and Customs of this Realm shall be transacted there, and all Resolutions taken thereupon shall be signed by such of the Privy Council as shall advise and consent to the same...
Page 31 - If it be a crime not to take the sacrament according to the usage of the Church of England, every one ought to be punished for it; which nobody affirms.
Page 27 - ... folly to countersign it, but retracted before it could be acted upon, instead of keeping aloof from the movement until it could be successfully executed. — But in the third place, and which more than all the rest hurried on matters to extremities, he took the insane step of entering in person the House of Commons, and claiming the surrender of five members, the leaders of the party opposed to him, but who had the whole Commons and nearly the whole Lords for their followers. He had the day before...
Page 21 - VIII. c. 1, declared the king and his successors to be the ' only supreme head on earth of the Church of England.
Page 34 - But every excessive opinion was overruled or restrained, so that the country might the more cheerfully respond to the town of Boston. The Bill of Rights declared that for the redress of grievances, Parliaments ought to be held frequently ; the Assembly of Massachusetts had been arbitrarily dissolved ; and Bernard refused to issue writs for a new one; so that the legislative rights of the Colony were suspended. The Town therefore, following the precedent of 1688, proposed a Convention in Faneuil Hall....
Page 27 - ... nominal. The Bishops were then excluded from Parliament ; and the King's assent to this was his last concession. What followed was done by main force, and on the eve of taking arms, or in the midst of that din which proverbially puts all law to silence. The immediate causes of the rebellion were, first, the religious zeal, or rather fury, excited by the encouragement which the King and Queen gave to Popery, and which was greatly magnified, at least as concerned him. The alarm of the Protestants...
Page 31 - s accession, in 1660, Hyde was created Earl of Clarendon, and became Prime Minister. Under his administration the Corporation Act, the Act of Uniformity...