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Page xxxv
... continue working with Charles , the nation had more to gain from the effort to preserve the continuity of its tradi- tions than it had to lose from the immediate evil results of its mistake . If that generation of Englishmen was slow to ...
... continue working with Charles , the nation had more to gain from the effort to preserve the continuity of its tradi- tions than it had to lose from the immediate evil results of its mistake . If that generation of Englishmen was slow to ...
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... continue the grant of Tonnage and Poundage to reduce Charles to bankruptcy . It was the consciousness that this was the case which filled the air with rumours of Royalist plots during the last fortnight of December , and which brought a ...
... continue the grant of Tonnage and Poundage to reduce Charles to bankruptcy . It was the consciousness that this was the case which filled the air with rumours of Royalist plots during the last fortnight of December , and which brought a ...
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... continue in office more than forty days after the meeting of Parliament , unless ap proved by Parliament . Cap . 18 , 48. £ 400,000 to be permanently assigned to the Protector for mili- tary and naval expenses , £ 200,000 for purposes ...
... continue in office more than forty days after the meeting of Parliament , unless ap proved by Parliament . Cap . 18 , 48. £ 400,000 to be permanently assigned to the Protector for mili- tary and naval expenses , £ 200,000 for purposes ...
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... continue most loyal and obedient subjects to our most gracious sovereign Lord , King Charles ; and that we will be ready in a convenient time and in a parliamentary way freely and duti- fully to do our utmost endeavours to discover and ...
... continue most loyal and obedient subjects to our most gracious sovereign Lord , King Charles ; and that we will be ready in a convenient time and in a parliamentary way freely and duti- fully to do our utmost endeavours to discover and ...
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... continue or not to be ; And remember , that if in this time , instead of mending your errors , by delay you persist in your errors , you make them greater and irreconcileable . Whereas on the other side , if you go on cheerfully to mend ...
... continue or not to be ; And remember , that if in this time , instead of mending your errors , by delay you persist in your errors , you make them greater and irreconcileable . Whereas on the other side , if you go on cheerfully to mend ...
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Page 64 - ... divers of your subjects have of late been imprisoned without any cause showed; and when for their deliverance they were brought before your justices by your Majesty's writs of Habeas Corpus, there to undergo and receive as the court should order, and their keepers commanded to certify the causes of their detainer, no cause was certified, but that they were detained by your Majesty's special command...
Page 458 - Oliver, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, and the dominions and territories thereunto belonging : to our trusty and beloved son, Lord Richard Cromwell, greeting.
Page 165 - ... our Sovereign Lord the King, his heirs and successors, and the other moiety to him or them that will sue for the same.
Page 152 - 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 460 - ... a Liberty to Tender Consciences and that no man shall be disquieted or called in question for differences of opinion in matters of religion which do not disturb the peace of the kingdom...
Page 97 - And as for our good people's lawful recreation, our pleasure likewise is, that after the end of divine service our good people be not disturbed, letted or discouraged from any lawful recreation, such as dancing, either men or women, archery for men, leaping, vaulting, or any other such harmless recreation, nor from having of May games, Whitsun ales, and morris dances, and the setting up of maypoles and other sports therewith used: so as the same be had in due and convenient time, without impediment...
Page 64 - And whereas also by authority of parliament, in the five and twentieth year of the reign of King Edward III, it is declared and enacted, that no man shall be forejudged of life or limb against the form of the Great Charter and the law of the land...
Page 63 - Attendance before your Privy Council and in other Places, and others of them have been therefore imprisoned, confined, and sundry other Ways molested and disquieted ; and divers other Charges have been laid and levied upon your People in several Counties by...
Page 64 - That no man should be forejudged of life or limb against the form of the great charter and the law of the land; and by the said great charter and other the laws and statutes of this your realm, no man ought to be adjudged to death but by the laws established in this your realm, either by the customs of the same realm, or by acts of parliament...
Page 260 - Scotland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, against our common enemies ; the reformation of religion in the kingdoms of England and Ireland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, according to the word of GOD, and the example of the best reformed Churches...