 | Trials - 1816 - 714 pages
...that the Test was inconsistent, or, which is all one, that it were not to be taken by any man, but so far as it was consistent with itself and the protestant religion, po doubt this would be a crime even in pleading, though pleading has a greater allowance than deliberate... | |
 | Earl John Russell Russell - Great Britain - 1819 - 372 pages
...himself, but by advice of the Bishop of Edinburgh, the Duke's friend, he subjoined an explanation, saying that he took it " in so far as it was consistent with itself and the Protestant religion." And that he did not mean to bind himself from endeavouring, in a lawful way, any alteration he might think... | |
 | Robert Wodrow, Robert Burns - 1833 - 540 pages
...that the test was inconsistent, or, which is all one, that it were not to be taken by any man, but so far as it was consistent with itself and the protestant religion, no doubt this would be n crime even in pleading, though pleading has a greater allowance than deliberate... | |
 | Thomas Hay Marshall, Henry Adamson - Perth (Scotland) - 1849 - 574 pages
...attached to the crown, refused to take it without an explanation. Accordingly, when Argyle took it, he added an explanation, importing that he took it in...charge was founded against Argyle of high treason, leasing-making, and perjury. A jury of his own rank was found infamous enough to convict, and a Court... | |
 | James Grant - Castles - 1850 - 372 pages
...required of him, by the Test Act, as Commissioner of the Treasury; or qualifying the obligation, by saying that he took it in so far as it was " consistent with itself and the Protestant religion." 2 On the 9th November he had been commanded to enter himself in ward, and a warrant was sent to the... | |
 | Alexander Crawford Lindsay Earl of Crawford - 1868 - 180 pages
...with the former. When this test was tendered to Argyll as a member of the Privy Council, he declared that he took it " in so far as it was consistent with itself and with the Protestant religion,"—a qualification for which he was cast into prison, tried, found guilty... | |
 | Æneas James G. Mackay - 1873 - 362 pages
...approval from the King, and was immediately put in force. Argyle, who declared that he took it only in so far as it was consistent with itself and the Protestant religion, was committed to prison, tried, and condemned to death for treason and leasing making, 2 but escaped... | |
 | Aeneas James George Mackay - Judges - 1873 - 348 pages
...approval from the King, and was immediately put in force. Argyle, who declared that he took it only in so far as it was consistent with itself and the Protestant religion, was committed to prison, tried, and condemned to death for treason and leasing making,2 but escaped... | |
 | Robert Herbert Story - Church and state - 1874 - 408 pages
...explanations " of the oath. The Earl of Argyll drew up an " explication " of the sense in which he would take it, " in so far as it was consistent with itself and the Protestant religion ;" and finding that this promised to bring him into trouble, he followed it with an " explanation of his explication,"... | |
 | John Mackintosh - Scotland - 1884 - 538 pages
...left their parishes ; and others only took it with limitations and explanations. The Earl of Argyle took it in so far as it was consistent with itself: and stated that he did not bind himself from doing what he deemed requisite and consistent with the Protestant... | |
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York and his advisers, only a more pliable instrument of tyranny, a shelter for the lax, and a terror to the upright conscience. It received a speedy approval from the King, and was immediately put in force. 
