The Rise and Fall of the High Commission

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Clarendon Press, 1913 - 380 Seiten
 

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Seite 134 - Let no man deceive you by any means : for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition...
Seite 335 - ... to visit, repress, redress, reform, order, correct, restrain, and amend all such errors, heresies, abuses, offences, contempts, and enormities, whatsoever they be, which by any manner of spiritual authority or jurisdiction, ought or may lawfully be reformed...
Seite 152 - is the ascendancy of the law of actions in the infancy of courts of justice, that substantive law has at first the look of being gradually secreted in the interstices of procedure.
Seite 136 - This is the corpse of Roger Rippon, a servant of Christ, and her majesty's faithful subject ; who is the last of sixteen or seventeen which that great enemy of God, the archbishop of Canterbury, with his high commissioners, have murdered in Newgate within these five years, manifestly for the testimony of Jesus Christ...
Seite 335 - Be it enacted by authority of this present parliament, that the king, our sovereign lord, his heirs and successors, kings of this realm, shall be taken, accepted, and reputed, the only supreme head in earth, of the Church of England...
Seite 139 - Also the kingly head of this politic body is instituted and furnished with plenary and entire power prerogative and jurisdiction to render justice and right to every part and member of this body, of what estate, degree or calling soever, in all causes ecclesiastical or temporal ; otherwise he should not be a head of the whole body.
Seite 338 - Gerrard, to be one, from time to time hereafter, during our pleasure, to enquire as well by the oaths of twelve good and lawful men, as also by witnesses and all other ways and means...
Seite 336 - Highness, that it may be established and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that such jurisdictions, privileges, superiorities and pre-eminences, spiritual and ecclesiastical, as by any spiritual or ecclesiastical power or authority have heretofore been, or may lawfully be exercised or used for the visitation of the ecclesiastical state and persons, and for reformation, order and correction of the same, and of all manner of errors, heresies, schisms, abuses, offences, contempts and enormities...
Seite 153 - ... prosecutes him ; and I fancy that in James's time a similar feeling extended to all prosecutions instituted at the suit of the Crown. The conviction seemed necessary in order to justify the prosecution ; for an acquittal implied that the prisoner had been brought to trial on insufficient evidence. People had not yet learned to regard the proceeding before the Court simply as a trial of the question, — a reference of it to the Judge and Jury to know whether the prisoner was guilty or not. Still...
Seite 336 - ... that such jurisdictions, privileges, superiorities, and pre-eminences, spiritual and ecclesiastical, as by any spiritual or ecclesiastical power or authority hath heretofore been, or may lawfully be exercised or used for the visitation of the ecclesiastical state and persons, and for reformation, order, and correction of the same, and of all manner of errors, heresies, schisms, abuses, offences, contempts, and enormities, shall for ever, by authority of this present Parliament, be united and...

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