Stockdale's Parliamentary Guide ; Or, Members' and Electors' Complete Companion: Being an Historical Account of the Several Cities, Counties, and Boroughs, in Great-Britain ; Their Right of Election ... : To which is Prefixed, a Preface ... : With an Appendix, Containing Orders of the House of Commons, Arranged Under Their Proper Heads ; and a Table of Fees Taken by Its Officers and Servants

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John Stockdale, 1784 - Boroughs - 489 pages
 

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Page 397 - That I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, that Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, or any authority of the See of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever.
Page 406 - Pounds over and above all Rents and Charges payable out of or in respect of the same...
Page 398 - Supper there is not any transubstantiation of the elements of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ at or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever, and that the invocation or adoration of the Virgin Mary or any other saint and the sacrifice of the mass as they are now used in the Church of Rome are superstitious and idolatrous.
Page 431 - House has met before that day, or will meet on the day of the issue) issue his warrant to the clerk of the Crown to make out a new writ for electing another member in the room of the member whose seat has so become vacant.
Page 398 - Rome are superstitious and idolatrous, and I do solemnly in the presence of God profess testify and declare that I do make this declaration and every part thereof in the plain and ordinary sense of the words read unto me as they are commonly understood by English protestants without any evasion, equivocation or mental reservation whatsoever...
Page 399 - I am or can be acquitted before God or man or absolved of this declaration or any part thereof, although the Pope or any other person or persons or power whatsoever should dispense with or annul the same, or declare that it was null and void from the beginning.
Page 405 - I have not received, or had, by myself, or any person whatsoever in trust for me, or for my use and benefit, directly or indirectly, any sum or sums of money, office, place, or employment, gift, or reward, or any promise or security for any money, office, employment, or gift, in order to give my vote at this election.
Page 411 - Corbett, bailiff of the liberty of the dean and chapter of the collegiate church of St. Peter, at...
Page 400 - Wales during the life of the late King James, and since his decease, pretending to be and taking upon himself the stile and title of King of England...
Page 380 - An act for the further security of his Majesty's person and the succession of the crown in the Protestant line, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and all other pretenders, and their open and secret abettors...

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