 | Francis Lancelott - 1858 - 552 pages
...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 :' which is there made out, by an enumeration of sundry particulars. And not long after,... | |
 | Rollin Carlos Hurd - 1858 - 714 pages
...Independence, recites the injuries and usurpations of the late King James II., by which he " did endeavor to subvert and extirpate the Protestant religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom," and then " for the vindicating their ancient rights and liberties," " as their ancestors... | |
 | Joshua Toulmin Smith - 1859 - 206 pages
...transactions of that day took place because, as it is expressed in the Bill of Rights itself, King James had " endeavoured to subvert and extirpate the Protestant religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom." Some particular instances of this are then enumerated ; whereupon, " the lords spiritual... | |
 | Homersham Cox - 1863 - 862 pages
...Revolution, 1 Will. & Mary, sess. 2, c. 2, refers to this prosecution, reciting that the late King James II. endeavoured " to subvert and extirpate the Protestant religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom " in various ways mentioned ; one of which is, " By committing and prosecuting divers... | |
 | Ezra Champion Seaman - 1863 - 312 pages
...second, by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges, and ministers employed by him, did endeavor to subvert and extirpate the protestant religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom, 1. By assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with and suspending of laws, and... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1864 - 1078 pages
...and Mary. (1) The bill of rights contains an enumeration of the oppressive acts of James 2, tending to subvert and extirpate the Protestant religion, and the laws and liberties of the kingdom ; and the first of them is the assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with and suspending the... | |
 | John Fulton - 1864 - 582 pages
...IL, by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges, and ministers employed by him, did endeavor to subvert and extirpate the Protestant religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom, " 1. By assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with and suspending of laws, and... | |
 | Arthur Bailey Thompson - 1865 - 748 pages
...fully, and Ircely represent the people of this realm, the bill proceeds to recite that the late King had endeavoured to subvert and extirpate the Protestant...religion, and the laws and liberties of the kingdom by various acts. It is then asserted that the throne being vacant the Prince of Orange had caused a... | |
 | David Hume - 1869 - 822 pages
...by the ans»l.-t:ince of divers evil counselors, judges, and ministers employed by him, did endeavor to subvert and extirpate the Protestant religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom: 1. By assuming nnd exercising a power of dispensing with and suspending of laws, and... | |
 | William Stubbs - 1870 - 568 pages
...by the assistance of diverse 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 : — • I. By assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with and suspending of laws,... | |
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By assuming and exercising a Power of dispensing with and suspending of Laws, and the Execution of Laws, without consent of Parliament. 
