A Constitutional History of the British Empire: From the Accession of Charles I. to the Restoration: with an Introd., Tracing the Progress of Society and of the Constitution from the Feudal Times to the Opening of the History, and Including a Particular Examination of Mr. Hume's Statements Relative to the Character of the English Government, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1866 - Constitutional history |
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... clergy , whose ambition of acquiring lands stimulated them to many ingenious arts , or finesses , for defeating the laws , had devised one , called a common re- covery , for evading this ; and courts of law had , so early as the reign ...
... clergy , whose ambition of acquiring lands stimulated them to many ingenious arts , or finesses , for defeating the laws , had devised one , called a common re- covery , for evading this ; and courts of law had , so early as the reign ...
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... clergy , on conviction of crimes , to peers , though they could neither write nor read . Now Henry VII . kept a journal with his own hand , was intimately acquainted with French , and understood Latin - a great deal for the age in which ...
... clergy , on conviction of crimes , to peers , though they could neither write nor read . Now Henry VII . kept a journal with his own hand , was intimately acquainted with French , and understood Latin - a great deal for the age in which ...
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... clergy slauery . ' He gives likewise a curious picture of his father's family , to prove the change of times . My father , ' says he , ' was a yeo- man , and had no lands of his own , onely he had a farme of 3 or 4 pound by the year at ...
... clergy slauery . ' He gives likewise a curious picture of his father's family , to prove the change of times . My father , ' says he , ' was a yeo- man , and had no lands of his own , onely he had a farme of 3 or 4 pound by the year at ...
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... clergy . But these were Catholics , and a difference in religion with some men shuts up every ave- nue of compassion . * See 1st vol . of Burnet , p . 576 , as to the stage plays . + Strype's Mem . vol . ii . p . 261. A strange fatality ...
... clergy . But these were Catholics , and a difference in religion with some men shuts up every ave- nue of compassion . * See 1st vol . of Burnet , p . 576 , as to the stage plays . + Strype's Mem . vol . ii . p . 261. A strange fatality ...
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... clergy , & c . - which peculiarly distinguished the Romish persuasion , and boldly appealed to the Scriptures as the only rule of faith . Qua- lified equally by nature and by his uncommon attainments to be the leader of the sect , he ...
... clergy , & c . - which peculiarly distinguished the Romish persuasion , and boldly appealed to the Scriptures as the only rule of faith . Qua- lified equally by nature and by his uncommon attainments to be the leader of the sect , he ...
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Page 143 - ... general councils, or any of them ; or by any other general council, wherein the same was declared heresy by the express and plain words of canonical scripture, or such as shall hereafter be declared to be heresy by the high court of parliament, with the assent of the clergy in convocation.
Page 344 - The duke was indeed a very extraordinary person; and never any man, in any age, nor, I believe, in any country or nation, rose, in so short a time, to so much greatness of honour, fame and fortune, upon no other advantage or recommendation than of the beauty and gracefulness and becomingness of his person.
Page 121 - , it is enacted that no man shall be attached by any accusation nor forejudged of life or limb, nor his lands, tenements, goods nor chattels seized into the King's hands against the form of the Great Charter and the law of the land...