A Digest of Legislative Enactments, Relating to the Society of Friends, Commonly Called Quakers, in England |
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A Digest of Legislative Enactments, Relating to the Society of Friends ... Joseph Davis (Conveyancer) No preview available - 1849 |
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9 Geo according affirmation or declaration aforesaid appear appointed arrears assessment birth calendar months called Quakers certificate certified copy charitable chattels Church of England church rates churchwardens clause collectors commissioners constables costs death declaration of fidelity Dissenters distress and sale Ecclesiastical Courts enacted entry exceeding exempted extend forfeitures George George III George IV hands and seals intituled An act Joseph Pease lands levied liable Majesty's marriage meeting houses mentioned neglect notice oath of abjuration offender paid parish Parliament parties payment peace penalties person or persons persons professing poor rates Popish Recusants pounds prædial professing the Jewish purposes Quakers so called quarter sessions recited acts refuse to take Register Books Registering Officer reign rent charge repealed respectively Sect serve shillings Society of Friends solemn affirmation statute subscribe the declaration Superintendent Registrar take the oaths tender tenements therein thereof tion tithes Vict warrant whatsoever William IV
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Page 39 - I, AB, do swear, That I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, that Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, or any authority of the See of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever.
Page 7 - ... the Pope, or any other authority or person whatsoever, or without any hope of any such dispensation from any person • or authority whatsoever, or without thinking that I am or can be acquitted before •God or man, or absolved of this declaration or any part thereof, although the...
Page 45 - Second and since his decease pretended to be and took upon himself the stile and title of King of England by the name of James the Third or of Scotland by the name of James the Eighth or the stile and title of King of Great Britain hath any right or title whatsoever to the crown of this realm or any other the dominions thereunto belonging.
Page 45 - That I will bear faith and true allegiance to His Majesty King George and him will defend to the utmost of my power against all traitorous conspiracies and attempts whatsoever which shall be made against his person crown or dignity.
Page 33 - Which said solemn affirmation or declaration, shall be adjudged and taken, and is hereby enacted and declared to be of the same force and effect, to all intents and purposes in all courts of justice, and other places, where by law an oath is required, within this kingdom of England, dominion of Wales, or town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, as if such Quaker had taken an oath in the usual form.
Page 7 - I AB do solemnly and sincerely in the presence of God profess, testify and declare, that I do believe that in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper there is not any transubstantiation of the elements of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, at or after the consecration...
Page 161 - Lord 1736, no manors, lands, tenements, rents, advowsons, or other hereditaments, corporeal or incorporeal, whatsoever, nor any sum or sums of money, goods, chattels, stocks in the public funds, securities for money, or any other personal estate whatsoever, to be laid out or disposed of in the purchase of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments...
Page 7 - And I do solemnly in the presence of God profess, testify and declare, That I do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary sense of the words read unto me, as they are commonly understood by English protestants, without any evasion, equivocation or mental reservation whatsoever...
Page 129 - ... the dwelling-place of each of them, and the time, not being less than seven days, during which each has dwelt therein, and the...
Page 2 - An Act for the more effectual preserving the King's person and government, by disabling Papists from sitting in either House of Parliament.