 | John Edward Jackson - 1857 - 52 pages
...Seas as chaplain to the Tangiers fleet. In 1683 he was appointed to the Bishoprick of Bath and Wells. with this place, that he was one of the seven prelates...succeeded in producing a book, of which the Quarterly Review has said that it is about every thing else but Bishop Ken. There is, however, one passage to... | |
 | John Hickes - Dissenters, Religious - 1862 - 510 pages
...these tenets, he became a thorough believer in them. The best proof of this appeared in his refusal to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary, for which refusal he was deprived of all his ecclesiastical honours. Most of the clergy who had taken the place... | |
 | Edward Lewes Cutts - 1887 - 702 pages
...nevertheless released in default of proof. He was one of that group of bishops, clergymen, and laymen who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary [see Non-Jurors], anil in consequence lost his preferment. In 1697—1709 he published a series of... | |
 | Joseph Barber Lightfoot - Sermons, English - 1892 - 268 pages
...ASIAE . AFRICAE . AMERICAE . AV8TRALIAE . INSVLARVM . OCEANI . QVID . RETRIBVAM . DOMINO? 88. Among those who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary were archbishop Sancroft, bishops Ken, Turner, Frampton, Lloyd, White, Thomas, Lake, and Cartwright,... | |
 | Montagu Burrows - Great Britain - 1893 - 594 pages
...carried weight with a certain section of the clergy, represented by Sancroft and six other bishops, who refused to take the Oath of Allegiance to William and Mary. Th> was the Nonjuring Schism in which four hundred clergy ar.d a handful of laymen were involved. It... | |
 | D. & J. Sadlier & Co - United States - 1893 - 334 pages
...anxiously sought for, but as none was found, suspicion fell upon an inoffensive non-juring (that is, one who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary, or their successors,) Episcopalian minister; he was declared to be a priest, and arrested, tried, condemned,... | |
 | James Edward Vaux - Folklore - 1894 - 376 pages
...chiefly because it gives expression to the thoroughly religious sentiments of one of those noble bishops who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary, and suffered deprivation and poverty rather than do violence to their consciences. The urgent expostulation... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 364 pages
...188), but several references to her occur in his Letters. 18 15. non-juror. An adherent of James II, who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary after the Revolution of 1688, or to their successors; a Jacobite. The clergy of England remained particularly... | |
 | John Henry Newman - English literature - 1907 - 362 pages
..../Eschylus. Non-jurors. Primarily, the four hundred clergymen and nine Bishops of the Church of England who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary, upon the ground that they were already bound by their oath to James II. In consequence of their refusal,... | |
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Ken was afterwards, when the throne was declared vacant, one of those who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary, for which, by Act of parliament, he was deprived of his Bishoprick. 
