A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs: From September 1678 to April 1714, Volume 1 |
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Page 501 - ... and for default of such issue to the princess Anne of Denmark and the heirs of her body and for default of such issue to the heirs of the body of the said Prince of Orange.
Page 499 - And whereas it hath been found by experience, that it is inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this Protestant kingdom, to be governed by a Popish prince...
Page 309 - Inn took notice of it, and, thinking it an injury to them, went with a considerable body of 100 persons; upon which the workmen assaulted the gentlemen, and flung bricks at them, and the gentlemen at them again ; so a sharp engagement ensued, but the gentlemen routed them at last, and brought away one or two of the workmen to Graies Inn : in this skirmish one or two of the gentlemen and servants of the house were hurt, and several of the workmen.
Page 538 - Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws...
Page 30 - Mr. John Dryden was sett on in Covent Garden in the evening by three fellowes, who beat him very severely, and on peoples comeing in they run away; 'tis thought to be done by order of the dutchesse of Portsmouth; she being abused in a late libell called an Essay upon satyr, of which Mr. Dryden is suspected to be the author.
Page 500 - ... during their lives and the life of the survivor of them; and that the sole and full exercise of the regal power be only in and executed by the said prince of Orange...
Page 197 - See ante § 440 for a criticism of this requirement. • 7. See ante § 437. 1. See Best v. Drake (1853) 11 Hare 371, note, telling of the following bill of peace in the time of Lord Nottingham: "A bill in the Chancery was this term preferred by a widow against 500 persons, to answer what moneys they owed her...
Page 519 - Seventh, being a professed papist, did assume the regal power and acted as king without ever taking the oath required by law...
Page 41 - About 9 at night, John Arnold, Esq., one of his majesties justices of the peace for the county of Monmouth, goeing home to his lodging was sett upon in Bell Yard, near Jack-an-apes lane end by three fellows, who dangerously wounded him, endeavouring to cutt his throat ; " and again, on Aug. 26 of the same year, we read that " John Giles stood on the pillory in Lincoln's Inn fields, near Jack-an-apes lane, and was pelted by the people very severely.