 | William Smyth - 1854 - 554 pages
...civil liberty. He obtained then the Toleration Act. " Forasmuch," says the preamble to the act, " as some ease to scrupulous consciences in the exercise of religion may be s an effectual means to unite their Majesties' Protestant subjects in interest and affection," &c.... | |
 | George Gould - 1862 - 538 pages
...Protestant Subjects, Dissenting from the Church of England, from the Penalties of certain laws. FORASMUCH as some ease to scrupulous consciences in the exercise...majesties' protestant subjects in interest and affection, II. Be it enacted, by the king's and queen's most excellent majesties, by and with the advice and consent... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1870 - 752 pages
...any consideration of justice, but only on the consideration of political expediency : " Forasmuch as some ease to scrupulous consciences, in the exercise...Majesties' Protestant subjects in interest and affection." In view of that consideration the legislative power of England enacted that persons dissenting from... | |
 | 1870 - 748 pages
...any consideration of justice, but only on the consideration of political expediency : " Forasmuch as some ease to scrupulous consciences, in the exercise...Majesties' Protestant subjects in interest and affection." In view of that consideration the legislative power of England enacted that persons dissenting from... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1870 - 842 pages
...any consideration of justice, but only on the consideration of political expediency : " Forasmuch as some ease to scrupulous consciences, in the exercise...their Majesties' Protestant subjects in interest and aflection." In view of that consideration the legislative power of England enacted that persons dissenting... | |
 | Julia Wedgwood - 1870 - 426 pages
...off, by the preamble, from any possibility of being applied to other than Dissenters. ' Forasmuch as some ease to scrupulous consciences in the exercise...effectual means to unite their Majesties' Protestant servants in interest and affection, it is enacted' that a number of penal statutes which are enumerated... | |
 | 1875 - 1012 pages
...the crime of heresy. Its object is much narrower. The preamble is in these words : — " Forasmuch as some ease to scrupulous consciences in the exercise...religion may be an effectual means to unite their Majesty's Protestant subjects in interest and affection." And it then goes ou to enact that everyone,... | |
 | Luke Owen Pike - 1876 - 754 pages
...affecting religious worship. The Toleration Act bears its own justification in its opening sentence, that ' some ease to scrupulous consciences in the exercise...Majesties' Protestant subjects in interest and affection.' It is true that from the point of view of the nineteenth century the Toleration Act itself appears... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1877 - 1470 pages
...best years in hunting down the ' Conveuticlers,' and who now found it declared by Parliament that ' some ease to scrupulous consciences in the exercise...Majesties' protestant subjects in interest and affection.' The Clerk of the Peace was compelled to register the names of such persons as took the required oaths... | |
 | 1877 - 828 pages
...best years in hunting down the ' Conveuticlers,' and who now found it declared by Parliament that ' some ease to scrupulous consciences in the exercise...Majesties' protestant subjects in interest and affection.' The Clerk of the Peace was compelled to register the names of such persons as took the required oaths... | |
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