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" 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 against his person, or against those that arc commissioned by... "
The Works of John Locke - Page 202
by John Locke - 1823
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Introductory Lectures on Modern History: Delivered in Lent Term, MDCCCXLII ...

Thomas Arnold - History - 1845 - 466 pages
...enacted that all persons in holy orders, who had not subscribed the act of uniformity, should swear that it is not lawful, upon any pretence whatsoever, to take arms against the King; and that they did abhor that traitorous position of taking arms by his authority against his person, or against...
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Introductory Lectures on Modern History: Delivered in Lent Term, MDCCCXLII ...

Thomas Arnold - History - 1845 - 474 pages
...enacted that all persons in holy orders, who had not subscribed the act of uniformity, should swear that it is not lawful, upon any pretence whatsoever, to take arms against the King; and that they did abhor that traitorous position of taking arms by his authority against his person, or against...
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Introductory Lectures on Modern History: Delivered in Lent Term, MDCCCXLII ...

Thomas Arnold - History - 1849 - 456 pages
...enacted that all persons in holy orders, who had not subscribed the act of uniformity, should swear that it is not lawful, upon any pretence whatsoever, to take arms against the King; and that they did abhor that traitorous position of taking arms by his authority against his person, or against...
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The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of ..., Volume 3

John Campbell Baron Campbell - Judges - 1845 - 628 pages
...the " Clarendonian Code," enacting that all nonconforming clergymen should take an oath that it was not lawful, upon any pretence whatsoever, to take arms against the King or against those commissioned by him, and that they would not at any time endeavour any alteration...
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The Popish Plot: A Study in the History of the Reign of Charles II

John Pollock - Great Britain - 1903 - 454 pages
...approach within 5 miles of any corporation sending members to Parliament, without having taken an oath “that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take arms against the King.” No such person shall teach in any public or private school. Penalty for not complying, a fine of £4o....
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The Popish Plot: A Study in the History of the Reign of Charles II

John Pollock - Great Britain - 1903 - 450 pages
...approach within 5 miles of any corporation sending members to Parliament, without having taken an oath " that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take arms against the King." No such person shall teach in any public or private school. Penalty for not complying, a fine of ^40....
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The Baptist Magazine, Volume 2

Baptists - 1810 - 558 pages
...five mile act. This law imposed upon nonconforming ministers the the following oath "I, AB do swear, that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever...to take arms against the king, and that I do abhor the traiterous position of taking arms by his authority against his person or against those that are...
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Andrew Marvell

Augustine Birrell - Fiction - 1905 - 368 pages
...upon any pretence whatsoever to take up arms against the King, and that I do abhor that traiterous position of taking arms by his authority against his person, or against those that are commissioned by him in pursuance of such commission. And I do swear, that I will not at any time...
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John Howe

Robert Forman Horton - Great Britain - 1905 - 292 pages
...Nonconformists, like Dr. Bates in London, saw their way to taking the oath, and to swear " that it was not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take arms against the King." This was not the spirit of Cromwell and the Ironsides. But it represents the feeling which has usually...
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Select Documents of English Constitutional History

George Burton Adams, Henry Morse Stephens - Constitutional history - 1906 - 588 pages
...any three or more of them, take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, and this oath following : V. ' I, AB, do declare and believe, that it is not lawful...authority against his person or against those that are commissioned by him : So help me God.' VI. And also at the same time shall publicly subscribe before...
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