| Daniel Neal - England - 1837 - 648 pages
...other port-towns, shall take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, and this oath following : " 'I, AB, do declare and believe, that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take arms against the king; and that I do abhor that traitorous position of taking arms by his authority... | |
| Statesmen - 1838 - 406 pages
...council, office, parliament, or the magistracy, were to make this declaration on oath : —" I do declare, that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever...that I do abhor that traitorous position of taking up arms by his authority against his person, or against those that are commissioned by him, in pursuance... | |
| Christian biography - 1839 - 736 pages
...that of the primitive Christians) yet in the same law which establishes our religion it is declared, that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take up arms, &c. Besides that, there is a particular law declaring the power of the militia to be solely in the... | |
| Robert Vaughan - Great Britain - 1840 - 482 pages
...clause of the part separated as being so much declaration only, it was said to be '' unlawful, under any pretence whatsoever, to take up arms against the king;" and that no doubt might remain concerning the meaning of this clause, the person subscribing to it was required... | |
| John Milner - 1842 - 522 pages
...the same Act, all subjects of the realm, down to constables and schoolmasters, were obliged to swear, that ' It is not lawful, upon any ' pretence whatsoever, to take up arms against the ' King;' this oath, in its turn, was universally dispensed with, in the Churches and in Parliament, at the Revolution.... | |
| Daniel Neal - Great Britain - 1844 - 602 pages
...other port-towns, shall take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, and this oath following : "' I, AB, do declare and believe that it is not lawful, upon any pretence whatsoever, to take arms against the king ; and that I do abhor that traitorous position of taking arms by his authority... | |
| 1862
...submission due from subjects to princes ; as amended and passed, it enforced the subscribers to denounce as "not lawful, upon any pretence whatsoever, to take up arms against the King :" that is, every Englishman was henceforth to hold his liberties not as his own, but as the concessions... | |
| Thomas Manton - Bible - 1845 - 624 pages
...freedoms with him. The Doctor, indeed, was in his judgment utterly against taking the Oxford oath, viz., " That it is not lawful, upon any pretence whatsoever, to take up arms against the King ; and, that we will not at any time endeavour any alteration of the government in church or state." And when some... | |
| Armand Carrel, Charles James Fox - Great Britain - 1846 - 498 pages
...They required that every member of the two houses should publicly swear: " I, AB, do solemnly declare, that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever...take up arms against the king. And that I do abhor the traitorous position of taking arms by his authority against his person, or against those that are... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - Canada - 1846 - 618 pages
...borough, under a penalty of forty pounds, unless he should take the following oath : — " I swear that it is not lawful, upon any pretence whatsoever, to take up arms against the King, or those commissioned by him, and that I will not at any time endeavour any alteration of government... | |
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