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Page 117 - William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria '" "Ugh!" said the Lory, with a shiver. "I beg your pardon!
Page 247 - King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom by breaking the original contract between King and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, had abdicated the government, and that the throne had thereby become vacant.
Page 241 - The Cambridge Case. Proceedings against the Vice-Chancellour for refusing to admit Alban Francis, a Benedictine Monk, to the Degree of Master of Arts, without taking the Oaths. 1G89." " An Enquiry into the Power of Dispensing with Penal Statutes. 1689.
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Page 259 - Britain had contracted by the grand alliance, and concluded with moving a clause, declaring, that no peace could be safe or honourable, if Spain and the West Indies were to be allotted to any branch of the house of Bourbon.
Page 133 - No man shall be deprived of his life, liberty or property, but by the judgment of his peers and the law of the land.
Page 263 - They now passed an act, declaring, that if any persons, to the number of twelve, unlawfully assembled, should continue together one hour, after being required to disperse by a justice of peace, or other officer, and after hearing the act against riots read in public, they should be deemed guilty of felony, without benefit of clergy.
Page 100 - ... that the privileges of the church had already revived a sense of order and freedom in the Roman government. The sentence which was pronounced in the synod of Tyre, and subscribed by a large majority of the Eastern bishops, had never been expressly repealed ; and, as Athanasius had been once degraded from his episcopal dignity by the judgment of his brethren, every subsequent act might be considered as irregular...
Page 293 - May of the same year he was shot dead, in the Lobby of the House of Commons, by a madman named John Bellingham, who had some crazy grievance against the Government.