 | George Gresley Perry - 1861 - 698 pages
...the sight of an instrument of 24 Articles of great length and curiosity, formed in a Romish style,- to examine all manner of ministers in this time without distinction of persons, to be executed ex officii mere. . . , Chap. II. licenses for marriage without banns asked be more 1603. cautiously granted.... | |
 | Richard John King - Cathedrals - 1861 - 334 pages
...articles of examination were "so curiously penned, so full of branches and circumstances, as he thought the Inquisition of Spain used not so many questions to comprehend and trap their preys." In spite, or rather in consequence, of these extreme measures, the famous libels... | |
 | Great Britain. Public Record Office - Great Britain - 1865 - 840 pages
...by chance " an instrument of 24 articles of great length " and curiosity, formed in a Romish style, to examine all manner of " ministers, in this time, without distinction of person?," and finds them so curiously penned, so full of branches and circumstances, as he thinks the... | |
 | George Punchard - Church history - 1867 - 494 pages
...I have read over your twenty-four articles, found in a Romish style, of great length and curiosity, to examine all manner of ministers in this time, without distinction of persons, to be executed ex qfficio mero. And I find them so curiously penned, so full of branches and circumstances, that I think... | |
 | George Punchard - Church history - 1867 - 492 pages
...I have read over your twenty-four articles, found in a Romish style, of great length and curiosity, to examine all manner of ministers in this time, without distinction of persons, to be executed ex officia mero. And I find them so curiously penned, so full of branches and circumstances, that I think... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - Great Britain - 1872 - 674 pages
...articles were so violent that Burleigh wrote to him stigmatizing them in the strongest terms. He says : l* "I find them so curiously penned, so full of branches...Spain used not so many questions to comprehend and trap their priests." Two months later — September, 1584 — the lords of the Council remonstrated... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1872 - 708 pages
...104: AYLMER. CHAP. IV. penned, so full of branches and circumstances, as he" thought the inquisitors of Spain used not so many questions to comprehend and to trap their preys." The primate replied by alleging reasons in behalf of the mode of examination, but very frivolous,... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - 1872 - 566 pages
...articles so curiously penned, so full of branches and circumstances, as he thought the inquisitors of Spain used not so many questions to comprehend and to trap their preys. And that this juridical and canonical sifting of poor ministers was not to edify and reform.... | |
 | George Herbert - 1874 - 386 pages
...sight of an instrument of twenty-four articles of great length and curiosity, formed in a Romish style, to examine all manner of ministers in this time, without distinction of persons, to be exacted ex officio mero .... These I have read, and found so curiously penned, so full of branches... | |
 | Thomas Vowler Short - Great Britain - 1875 - 678 pages
...articles as 'so curiously penned, so full of branches and circumstances, as I think the inquisitors of Spain used not so many questions to comprehend and to trap their preys.' He strongly advises a more charitable method of treatment, and while he disputes not the legality... | |
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And I find them so curiously penned, so full of branches and circumstances, that I think the inquisition of Spain used not so many questions to comprehend and to trap their priests. 
