Select Documents of English Constitutional History

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George Burton Adams, Henry Morse Stephens
Macmillan, 1901 - Constitutional history - 555 pages

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Page 446 - I, AB, do swear, 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 456 - I, AB, do sincerely promise and swear, that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to their majesties, King WILLIAM and Queen MAKY. So help me God.
Page 360 - I, AB, do in the Presence of Almighty God promise, vow and protest, To maintain and defend as far as lawfully I may, with my life, power and estate, the True Reformed Protestant Religion, expressed in the Doctrine of the Church of England...
Page 446 - I AB do sincerely promise and swear, That I will be faithful, and bear true allegiance, to their Majesties King William and Queen Mary: So help me God.
Page 456 - ... and indubitable rights and liberties of the people of this kingdom, and so shall be esteemed, allowed, adjudged, deemed, and taken to be, and that all and every the particulars aforesaid shall be firmly and strictly holden and observed, as they are expressed in the said declaration ; and all officers and ministers whatsoever shall serve their Majesties and their successors according to the same in all times to come.
Page 457 - Westminster do resolve that William and Mary, prince and princess of Orange, be and be declared king and queen...
Page 340 - Yet, nevertheless, of late divers Commissions directed to sundry Commissioners in several Counties, with Instructions, have issued ; by means whereof your People have been in divers places assembled, and required to lend certain Sums of Money unto your Majesty, and many of them, upon their...
Page 420 - ... unfeigned assent and consent to the use of all things in the said book contained and prescribed in these words and no other. IV. I, AB, do here declare my unfeigned assent and consent to all and everything contained and prescribed in and by the book intituled,
Page 469 - That after the said limitation shall take effect as aforesaid, judges' commissions be made Quamdiu se bene gesserint, and their salaries ascertained and established ; but upon the address of both Houses of Parliament it may be lawful to remove them.
Page 485 - ... the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue...

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