 | Sir Michael Foster - 1809 - 504 pages
...Febrnarii. " Per concilium." 2 St Tri 159 * k or d Chief- Justice Hale, when of high rank at the bur, took the engagement, " To be true and faithful to the commonwealth of England without a " King or Haute of Lordi." This, in the tentc of thote vcho im' poted it, was plainly an engagement for abolishing... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell - 1816 - 822 pages
...leaders dictated. '• LCJ Hale, when of high rank at the bar, took the engagement,(o/i¿r, v.5. p. ull) 'To be ' true and faithful to the Commonwealth of ' England without a King or House of Lords.' This, in the sense o! those who imposed it, was plainly an engagement for abolishing kindly government, at... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 538 pages
...brother-visitors in all the changes and ejectments they brought about in the university, he at length refused the engagement " to be true and faithful to the commonwealth of England, as established without a King and a House of Lords," and therefore was in his turn ejected from his... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 538 pages
...brother-visitors iu all the changes and ejectments they brought about it) the university, he at length refused the engagement " to b,e true and faithful to the commonwealth of England, as established without a King and a House of Lords," and therefore was in his turn ejected from his... | |
 | 1816 - 536 pages
...brother-visitors in all the changes and ejectments they brought about in the university, he at length refused the engagement "to be true and faithful to the commonwealth of England, as established without a King and a House of Lords," and therefore was in his turn ejected from his... | |
 | Rogers Ruding - 1819 - 514 pages
...accordingly h. Oct. 11. It was resolved, by the House, that all the Officers of the Mint should subscribe the engagement to be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England, as the same was then established, without a King, or House of Lords'. Nov. 7. An Act for Trial of the... | |
 | Matthew Hale - 1820 - 580 pages
...vol. 2, 7,8,86, 87, &c. where him one of the judges of the court of common pleas. In this situation, he took the engagement "to be true and " faithful...England, without a " King, or house of lords." — This, in the sense of those, who imposed it, was, in the opinion or Mr. Justice Foster, ("a whig of the old... | |
 | William Godwin - 1827 - 632 pages
...restoration that he never could have counted on. When we recollect his explanation of 1 1 10 sense in which he took the engagement to be true and faithful to the commonwealth as now established, without king or house of lords (see above, p. 334), that by the commonwealth he... | |
 | Samuel March Phillipps - 1826 - 510 pages
...leaders, dictated." It is an historical fact, that Lord Chief Justice Hale, when of high rank at the bar, took the engagement, " to be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England witk^..^ * Foster, CL p. 402. out a King or House of Lords." This, as Mr. Justice Foster remarks, was... | |
 | William Godwin - 1828 - 678 pages
...twenty-fifth of March*. Another measure which early drew their atten- Repeal of tion, was the repeal of the engagement, to be true and faithful to the commonwealth of England, as then established, without king or house of lords. This obligation was first voted on the twentysecond... | |
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Parliament by the time limited in the former qualifications, and shall take and subscribe the engagement, to be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England... 
