 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1853 - 466 pages
...citizen to submit to the government which Providence permitted to be established. Accordingly he took the engagement " to be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England, without a King or House of Lords." This was substituted for the old oath of allegiance, and required... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 538 pages
...at a later period of his life. On the death of Charles I. Hale, less scrupulous than Vaughan, took the engagement, " to be true and faithful to the commonwealth of England, without a king or house of lords." Soon after this, he was appointed one of a committee to consider... | |
 | Bulstrode Whitlocke - 1855 - 508 pages
...and so consequently not to be within that act of high treason. 5. 0bj. That Whitelocke having taken the engagement to be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England, as the same is now established without a King or House of Lords, if he should now act under this single... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1881 - 402 pages
...citizen to submit to the government which Providence permitted to be established. Accordingly he took the engagement " to be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England, without a King or House of Lords." This was substituted for the old oath of allegiance, and required... | |
 | Law reports general - 1882 - 544 pages
...the ambition of their leaders dictated. Lord Chief Justice Hale, when of high rank at the bar, took the engagement to be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England without.a King or House of Lords. This in the sense of those who composed it was plainly an engagement... | |
 | Scottish History Society - 1919 - 414 pages
...incorporation of Scotland as part of the Commonwealth of England. * Not the Engagement of 1648 ; but the Engagement to be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England as established without a king or house of lords. 4 Robert Trail and Gilbert Hall or George Ilutcheson. mourned bitterly to the Lord... | |
 | Henry Offley Wakeman - 1887 - 248 pages
...made in the law the Cove- . p ~ T •, -, A nant were in the direction of Independency. An oath called the Engagement, ' to be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England as it is now established, without a King or House of Lords,' was substituted for the Presbyterian Covenant... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1889 - 460 pages
...authority of the 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, as the same is now established, within such time and in such manner as the Commissioners forthe Parliament... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1889 - 452 pages
...authority of the 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, as the same is now established, within such time and in such manner as the Commissioners for the Parliament... | |
 | Frederick Andrew Inderwick - 1891 - 364 pages
...his eldest son Richard with Dorothy, daughter of Mr. Mayor of Dursley. He was among the first to take the engagement to be " true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England as it is now established without a King or a House of Lords." " I have done it," he said, at the trial... | |
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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... 
