 | Edward Vallance - History - 2005 - 278 pages
...not allow such private interpretations. Instead he looked to the general ends of the Covenant, the reformation and defence of religion, the honour and happiness of the king and the peace and the safety of the three kingdoms, which he felt none could balk at. He felt that the authors of the... | |
 | Robert Armstrong, Robert Matthew Armstrong - History - 2005 - 284 pages
...attempting to swear to the 'title' rather than the contents of the oath, then to interpret it, in its defence of religion, the 'honour and happiness' of the king and the 'peace and safety' of the three kingdoms, as at one with commitments made under the Oath of Supremacy.53 Drogheda,... | |
 | Nehemiah Wallington - History - 2007 - 406 pages
...full of feares and used means and freends to keepe me off{.) And 142 'A solemn league and covenant for reformation and defence of religion, the honour and happiness of the King, and the peace and safety of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland' (1643). 143 The Protestation, drawn... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1839 - 574 pages
...which it was received, and entered into ; which was in these words. A solemn league and covenant for reformation and defence of religion, the honour and happiness of the king, and the peace and safety of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland. " We noblemen, barons, knights, gentlemen,... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1903 - 526 pages
...reinforced and continued by the Solemn League and Covenant of 1644, the aim of which was to 'secure the "reformation and defence of religion, the honour and happiness of the King, and the peace and safety of the three kingdoms from the dangers imminent from the multitude of Papists." All who took... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1884 - 682 pages
...parishes throughout Scotland at that period. The title is : — " A Solemn League And Covenant, For Reformation ; And Defence of Religion, the Honour and Happiness of the King, and the Peace & Safetie of the Three Kingdoms. Of Scotland, England, & Ireland. ler. 50. 5. Prov. 25. 5. 2 Chron.... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1884 - 586 pages
...parishes throughout Scotland at that period. The title is: — " A Solemn League And Covenant, For Reformation ; And Defence of Religion, the Honour and Happiness of the King, and the Peace & Safetie of the Three Kingdoms. Of Scotland, England, & Ireland. 1er. 50. 5. Prov. 25. 5. 2 Chron.... | |
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A solemn league and covenant for Reformation and Defence of Religion, the honour and happiness of the King, and the peace and safety of the three kingdoms of England. Scotland and Ireland. 
