 | Stephen Friar, John Ferguson - Reference - 1993 - 224 pages
...execution of Charles I and the establishment of the Commonwealth in 1649, kingship was declared to be 'unnecessary, burdensome and dangerous to the liberty, safety and public interest of the people'. In many places (notably in parish churches) the royal arms were destroyed or defaced while others were... | |
 | Kevin Sharpe, Steven N. Zwicker - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 404 pages
...not been abolished. Not until March did the Rump pass an act "for abolishing the kingly office" as "burdensome and dangerous to the liberty, safety and public interest of the people" and even then somewhat ambiguously decreed that "the office of a king in this nation shall not henceforth... | |
 | Angus Stroud - History - 1999 - 246 pages
...office of King'. It dispensed with the institution of monarchy, on the grounds that it was something 'unnecessary, burdensome and dangerous to the liberty, safety and public interest of the people', and 'that for the most part, use hath been made of the regal power and prerogative to oppress, impoverish... | |
 | David Parker - History - 2000 - 254 pages
...and hath been found by experience, that the office of a king in this nation and Ireland, and to have the power thereof in any single person, is unnecessary,...liberty, safety, and public interest of the people, and that for the most part. use hath been made of the regal power and prerogative to oppress and impoverish... | |
 | Kevin Sharpe - History - 2000 - 498 pages
...not been abolished. Not until March did the Rump pass an act 'for abolishing the kingly office' as 'burdensome and dangerous to the liberty, safety and public interest of the people' and even then somewhat ambiguously decreed that 'the office of a king in this nation shall not henceforth... | |
 | Janet Clare - Drama - 2005 - 336 pages
...of March 1649 had declared that the office of king or the reposing of power in any single person was unnecessary, 'burdensome and dangerous to the liberty, safety and public interest of the people, and that for the most part, use hath been made of the regal power and prerogative to oppress and impoverish... | |
 | John F. McDiarmid - History - 2007 - 328 pages
...English House of Commons passed an Act abolishing the monarchy, declaring that 'the office of a King' is 'unnecessary, burdensome, and dangerous to the liberty, safety, and public interest of the people'.1 Five days later, the Commons printed a Declaration 'Expressing the Grounds of their late... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1898 - 630 pages
...restored Monarchy, and set up again the royal office which four years before had been declared to be * unnecessary, burdensome, and dangerous to the liberty, safety, and public interest of the people.' By the new constitution a co-ordinate power existed in Protector and Council representing the executive,... | |
 | Working class - 1850 - 820 pages
..."« abolished." Next day they resolved that the office of king had been found, by experience, to be unnecessary, burdensome, and dangerous to the liberty, safety, and Public interest of the people. It was consequently abolished, and forty of the memowa were constituted a council of State, legal writs... | |
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And whereas it is and hath been found by experience, that the office of a King in this nation and Ireland, and to have the power thereof in any single person, is unnecessary, burdensome, and dangerous to the liberty, safety and public interest of the... 
