 | Keith Feiling - Great Britain - 1924 - 544 pages
...dissenting ministers an oath, not to take up arms against the King or those commissioned by him, nor to ' at any time endeavour any alteration of government either in Church or State '. This, the Speaker said, was the ' shibboleth ', to distinguish those ' that have an infectious disease... | |
 | Sir William Searle Holdsworth - Law - 1924 - 758 pages
...against his person or against those that are commissionated by him in pursuance of such commissions. And that I will not at any time endeavour any alteration of government in church or state." •See SP Dom. 1663-1664 63-65, Ixix 5 — an account in a letter to Boston "of... | |
 | Thomas Richards (Librarian) - Criminal law - 1925 - 208 pages
...'3 specified in Clause ii, the import of which was (as has been referred to already) that they would not at any time endeavour any alteration of government, either in Church or State. £40 was the penalty for each offence under the Act, one-third of which was to go to informers. By... | |
 | Sir Charles Grant Robertson - Constitutional history - 1904 - 478 pages
...against his person, or against those that are commissionated by him, in pursuance of such commissions ; and that I will not at any time endeavour any alteration of government, either in church or state.' III. And all such person and persons as shall take upon them to preach in any unlawful assembly, conventicle,... | |
 | Henry Bettenson - Religion - 1963 - 372 pages
...against his person, or against those that are commissionated by him in pursuance of such commissions; and that I will not at any time endeavour any alteration of government, either in Church or State.' And all such person and persons as shall take upon them to preach in any unlawful assembly, conventicle,... | |
 | John Locke - History - 1997 - 458 pages
...attempt by Lord Treasurer Danby to impose an oath upon members of parliament requiring them to swear that 'I will not at any time endeavour any alteration of government either in church or state.' After prolonged parliamentary debate 'Danby's Test' was defeated. The following extracts comprise the... | |
 | Olive M. Griffiths - Presbyterian Church England - 1935 - 220 pages
...against His Person or against those that are commissionated by Him in pursuance of such Commissions And that I will not at any time endeavour any Alteration of Government either in Church or State." II. And all such person and persons as shall take upon them to preach in any unlawfull Assembly Conventicle... | |
 | Edward Vallance - History - 2005 - 278 pages
...declaration against resistance in the Act of Uniformity except for the addition of the sentence, 'And that 1 will not at any time endeavour any Alteration of Government either in Church or State.' George Morley, bishop of Winchester, argued that, in refusing the declarations in the Act of Uniformity,... | |
 | Daniel E. White - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 27 pages
...lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take arms against the King, or against those commissioned by him; and that I will not at any time endeavour any alteration of government either in church or state." According to the Test Act (1672), the Commons' response to Charles II's pro-Catholic Declaration of... | |
 | Great Britain - 1861 - 394 pages
...person, or against those that are commissionated by him in pursueance of such commissions ; and that we will not at any time endeavour any alteration of government, either in Church or of it ? There was non to destroy it but a company of ranting fellows; and, for his Majesty, bee had... | |
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I, AB, do swear that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take arms against the king, and that I do abhor that traitorous position of taking arms by his authority against his person, or against those that are commissionated by him, in pursuance... 
