 | 1809 - 540 pages
...James the Se" cond, by the Assistance of divers evil " Counsellors, Judges, and Ministers em" ployed by him, did endeavour to subvert ** and extirpate the Protestant Religion, " and the Law* and Liberties of this " Kingdom. " I. By assuming and exercising a " Power cf dispensing uiit/i... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 648 pages
...reader, no doubt, will have remarked, that in the quotation from the Bill of Right jit is said that Kin? James II. by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges, and ministers, did subvert the laws and liberties of the kingdom. — What! lawmen subvert the law ! and judget too... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1813 - 726 pages
...misrepresented authority, Jfrill be a perpetual monument, in these words : ' Whereas king James 2, by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges,...religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom.' Certain it is, that no arbitrary prince, when meditating the subversion of the constitution, ever was... | |
 | 1816 - 732 pages
...declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject : in that act notice is taken, that the late king James did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant Religion, and the laws and liberties of the kingdom ; and the particular instances of male-administration are set forth : then it declares,... | |
 | 1828 - 964 pages
...national liberty. " Whereas the late King James the Second, by the assistance of divers evil councillors, judges, and ministers, employed by him, did endeavour...religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom," and more to the same effect. From a comparison, then, of this preamble with the history of the reign... | |
 | 1819 - 736 pages
...this act. It is for declaring the rights and liberties of the subject; U declares that king James, by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges,...Protestant religion, and' the laws and liberties of the kingdom ; it then states the various instances m which he did so, all of which it declares are... | |
 | Richard Burn - 1824 - 608 pages
...And shall then kiss the hook." And by the 1 W. sess. 2. c. 2. Whereas the late king James the second, by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges,...religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom : 1. By assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with and suspending of laws, and the execution... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1826 - 884 pages
...judges, and ministers employed by him" — (such was the language of the lull of Rights) — " did he endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant...religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom." The House would therefore see, that, though the king was obliged to be in communion with the church... | |
 | 1826 - 902 pages
...judges, and ministers employed by him" — (such was the language of the bill of Rights) — " did he endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant...religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom." The House would therefore se,e, that, though the king was obliged to be in communion with the church... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1826 - 918 pages
...judges, and ministers employed by him" — (such was the language of the bill of Rights) — " did he endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant...religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom." The House would therefore see, that, though the king was obliged to be in communion with the church... | |
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WHEREAS the late King James the Second, by the Assistance of divers evil Counsellors, Judges, and Ministers employed by him, did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant Religion and the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom. 
