Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest: Now First Published from Official Records & Other Authentic Documents, Private as Well as Public, Volume 8H. Colburn, 1854 - Queens |
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Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest: With ..., Volume 10 Agnes Strickland No preview available - 2015 |
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Abigail Abigail Masham appointed archbishop bedchamber bishop Brit Britain brother Burnet Charles church of England conduct consort council court Coxe MSS crown daughter death duchess of Marlborough duchess of Somerset duke of Gloucester duke of Marlborough earl English father favour favourite France George of Denmark give hand Hanover Harley Harley earl honour Ibid inedited Jacobite James James II James's Kensington Kensington-palace king William lady Marlborough lady Masham letter Lewis Jenkins likewise lord Dartmouth lord Godolphin lord Marlborough lord treasurer majesty majesty's Marl Mesnager mind ministers mourning Museum never occasion palace parliament party peace person present prince George princess Anne queen Anne queen Anne's queen Mary received reign replied royal highness royal mistress Sacheverel says sent sister sovereign Stuart Swift thing thought throne tion told took tory whig William III Windsor Windsor-castle words young duke
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Page 167 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the protestant reformed religion established by law ? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them? — King or queen. All this I promise to do.
Page 170 - And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites : and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life : that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them...
Page 169 - Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
Page 167 - Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same? — The king or queen shall say, I solemnly promise so to do.
Page 221 - So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.
Page 440 - The queen was abroad to-day in order to hunt, but finding it disposed to rain, she kept in her coach; she hunts in a chaise with one horse, which she drives herself, and drives furiously, like Jehu, and is a mighty hunter, like Nimrod.
Page 170 - God, to keep all. the words of this law and these statutes, to do them : that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left : to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
Page 167 - And I do solemnly in the presence of God profess, testify and declare that I do make this declaration and every part thereof in the plain and ordinary sense of the words read unto me, as they are commonly understood by English Protestants, without any evasion, equivocation or mental reservation whatsoever...
Page 167 - ... the Pope, or any other authority or person whatsoever, or without any hope of any such dispensation from any person or authority whatsoever, or without thinking that I am or can be acquitted before God, or man, or absolved of this declaration, or any part thereof, although the Pope, or any other person or persons, or power whatsoever, should dispense with or annul the same, or declare that it was null and void from the beginning.
Page 510 - No towers along the steep ; Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak She quells the floods below — As they roar on the shore, When the stormy winds do blow ; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.