Select Statutes and Other Constitutional Documents Illustrative of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James IGeorge Walter Prothero |
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according Act of Parliament aforesaid aliis Angliae appointed Archbishop of Canterbury bishop Bishop of London cause charge church clergy command commission commissioners committed common law Commonwealth of England court crown diocese divers dominions doth ecclesiae ecclesiastical election Eliz Elizabeth execution exercise forasmuch full power further enacted give grant hath hereafter Highness honourable House of Commons humble imprisonment judges jurisdiction justices of peace King King's knights lands lawfully letters letters patents liberty Lord Chancellor Lordships Majesty's matter ministers oath offenders parish Parliament person petition pleasure Popish recusant power and authority praedictae prerogative present prince privilege Privy Council province of Canterbury punishment quae quam Queen's Majesty quod quorum realm of England reason reformation regni reign religion royal sacraments session Sovereign Speaker spiritual Star-Chamber statutes Strype subjects sundry temporal therein thereof things Thomas Thomas Shirley trusty and well-beloved vestrum vobis whatsoever Whereas writ
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Page 243 - I AB do truly and sincerely acknowledge, profess, testify and declare in my Conscience, before God and the World, That our Sovereign Lord King George is lawful and rightful King of this Realm, and all other his Majesty's Dominions and Countries thereunto belonging.
Page 222 - ... which only concern the confession of the true Christian faith and the doctrine of the sacraments...
Page 163 - For whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studieth in the universities, who professeth liberal sciences, and to be short, who can live idly and without manual labour, and will bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called master, for that is the title which men give to esquires and other gentlemen, and shall be taken for a gentleman...
Page 3 - I, AB, do utterly testify and declare in my conscience, that the queen's highness is the only supreme governor of this realm, and of all other her highness's dominions and countries, as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes, as temporal...
Page 8 - ... but only such as heretofore have been determined, ordered, or adjudged to be heresy [by the authority of the canonical Scriptures or by the first four general councils or any of them, or by any other general council wherein the same was declared heresy by the express and plain words of the said canonical...
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Page 293 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges, and jurisdictions of parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
Page 164 - ... all that ever the people of Rome might do either in centuriatis comitiis or tributis, the same may be done by the parliament of England, which representeth and hath the power of the whole realm both the head and the body.
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Page 359 - Sir, will you grant and keep, and by your oath confirm to the people of England, the laws and customs to them granted by the kings of England, your lawful and religious predecessors ; and namely, the laws, customs, and franchises' granted to the clergy by the glorious king St. Edward, your predecessor, according to the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel established in this kingdom, and agreeing to the prerogative of the kings thereof, and the ancient customs of this realm* ? King. I grant,...