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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... QUEEN ; AND THE FRENCH WAR - WITH THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT UPON THE ISLE OF RHÉ 396 • CHAPTER VIII . FROM THE ASSEMBLING OF THE THIRD PARLIAMENT TO ITS DISSOLUTION ; INCLUDING THE VARIOUS TRANSACTIONS OF THAT PARLIAMENT , AS THE ...
... QUEEN ; AND THE FRENCH WAR - WITH THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT UPON THE ISLE OF RHÉ 396 • CHAPTER VIII . FROM THE ASSEMBLING OF THE THIRD PARLIAMENT TO ITS DISSOLUTION ; INCLUDING THE VARIOUS TRANSACTIONS OF THAT PARLIAMENT , AS THE ...
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... Queen Elizabeth , that church lands added to an ancient inheritance had proved like a moth fretting a garment , and secretly consumed both ; or like the eagle that stole a coal from the altar , and thereby set her nest on fire , which ...
... Queen Elizabeth , that church lands added to an ancient inheritance had proved like a moth fretting a garment , and secretly consumed both ; or like the eagle that stole a coal from the altar , and thereby set her nest on fire , which ...
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... Queen Elizabeth about favourites , says of Wolsey , that he had a family equal to that of a great prince . There were in it one earl , and nine barons , and about a thou- sand knights ; and ( Burnet , vol . v . p . 36 ) this is ...
... Queen Elizabeth about favourites , says of Wolsey , that he had a family equal to that of a great prince . There were in it one earl , and nine barons , and about a thou- sand knights ; and ( Burnet , vol . v . p . 36 ) this is ...
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... queen , into the humiliating condition of a discarded concubine , and branding herself with illegitimacy , which seemed at one time to debar her from every hope of succession . The Romish Church , on the other hand , was endeared to her ...
... queen , into the humiliating condition of a discarded concubine , and branding herself with illegitimacy , which seemed at one time to debar her from every hope of succession . The Romish Church , on the other hand , was endeared to her ...
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... Queen Mary's time , a council of the realm , not the Queen's privy council , did write to a town to choose a bishop's brother , and a great bishop's brother it was indeed , whom they assured to be a good Catholic man , and willed them ...
... Queen Mary's time , a council of the realm , not the Queen's privy council , did write to a town to choose a bishop's brother , and a great bishop's brother it was indeed , whom they assured to be a good Catholic man , and willed them ...
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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...