The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England: From the Earliest Times Till the Reign of King George IV.J. Murray, 1845 - Judges |
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... lived , and as afterwards , on the deposition of His Highness the Lord Protector Richard , he was for a time sole Lord Keeper of the Great Seal under the Commonwealth , I am required to write his Life as if he had presided in the Court ...
... lived , and as afterwards , on the deposition of His Highness the Lord Protector Richard , he was for a time sole Lord Keeper of the Great Seal under the Commonwealth , I am required to write his Life as if he had presided in the Court ...
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... lived quietly , devoting himself to study and country amuse- ments till 1675 , when he died in his seventieth year . remains were interred at Falley , near Marlow , in Bucking- His hamshire , where he had constructed a burying place for ...
... lived quietly , devoting himself to study and country amuse- ments till 1675 , when he died in his seventieth year . remains were interred at Falley , near Marlow , in Bucking- His hamshire , where he had constructed a burying place for ...
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... lived well towards every body ; though to any thing of business he appeared only in his old excellent faculty of rais- ing doubts , and objecting against any thing that was pro- posed , and proposing nothing himself ; which was a temper ...
... lived well towards every body ; though to any thing of business he appeared only in his old excellent faculty of rais- ing doubts , and objecting against any thing that was pro- posed , and proposing nothing himself ; which was a temper ...
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... lived in entire seclusion and idleness , his mind a prey to discon- tent and despair , - he expired at Paris , in the autumn of the year 1657 , at a time when Cromwell was courted by all Charles was too poor to keep a carriage for some ...
... lived in entire seclusion and idleness , his mind a prey to discon- tent and despair , - he expired at Paris , in the autumn of the year 1657 , at a time when Cromwell was courted by all Charles was too poor to keep a carriage for some ...
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... pleasures . " From the death of Queen Elizabeth he never LXXIV . was in London , though he lived above 110 REIGN OF CHARLES I. CHAPTER LXXIV LIFE OF LORD CHANCELLOR CLARENDON FROM HIS BIRTH TILL THE EXECUTION LORD STRAFFORD.
... pleasures . " From the death of Queen Elizabeth he never LXXIV . was in London , though he lived above 110 REIGN OF CHARLES I. CHAPTER LXXIV LIFE OF LORD CHANCELLOR CLARENDON FROM HIS BIRTH TILL THE EXECUTION LORD STRAFFORD.
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Page 185 - ... a Liberty to Tender Consciences and that no man shall be disquieted or called in question for differences of opinion in matters of religion which do not disturb the peace of the kingdom...
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Page 539 - Lisle, be conveyed from hence to the place from whence you came, and from thence you are to be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution, where your body is to be burnt alive till you be dead And the Lord have mercy on your soul...
Page 282 - We do in the next place declare our will and pleasure to be that the execution of all and all manner of penal laws in matters ecclesiastical, against whatsoever sort of nonconformists or recusants, be immediately suspended, and they are hereby suspended...
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Page 534 - ... out of thy writing trade forty years ago it had been happy. Thou pretendest to be a preacher of the gospel of peace, and thou hast one foot in the grave ; it is time for thee to begin to think what account thou intendest to give ; but leave thee to thyself and I see thou wilt go on as thou hast begun ; but, by the grace of God, I'll look after thee.
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Page 215 - ... thereunto, through scruple and tenderness of misguided conscience, but modestly and without scandal perform their devotions in their own way...