 | Charles Knight - 1865 - 946 pages
...Provinces, Charles had issued a Declaration of Indulgence in religion. Upon their meeting, the Commons voted "that penal statutes, in matters ecclesiastical, cannot be suspended but by Act of Parliament." The Declaration of Indulgence was unpopular even amongst the Protestant dissenters, although they were... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 648 pages
...denunciation of it. On the 10th of February they resolved, by a majority of one hundred and sixty-eight to one hundred and sixteen, that " penal statutes, in matters ecclesiastical, cannot be suspended except by act of parliament." Charles stood for awhile on his prerogative, but the effervescence in... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1870 - 954 pages
...Charles had issued a Declaration of Indulgence in religion. Upon their meeting, the Commons voted " that penal statutes, in matters ecclesiastical, cannot be suspended but by Act of Parliament." The Declaration of Indulgence was uupopular even amongst the Protestant dissenters, although they were... | |
 | John Stoughton - England - 1870 - 556 pages
...course, and passed this resolu1 Wilson s Life of Defoe, i. 58. * Parl. Hist.,iv. 517-526. tion : — " That penal statutes, in matters ecclesiastical, cannot be suspended, but by Act of Parliament,"1 — a resolution which they carried by 168 against 116. The House afterwards considered... | |
 | William Dougal Christie - Great Britain - 1871 - 652 pages
...Declaration of Indulgence. It was resolved at the end of two long days' debate by 168 votes to 116 " that penal statutes in matters ecclesiastical cannot be suspended but by act of Parliament ;" and they voted an address to the King founded on this resolution. It was decided by 125 votes to 110 that... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - English literature - 1871 - 616 pages
...and the enmity to the Church of Rome. An address was presented to the King, "to inform him thai penai statutes in matters ecclesiastical cannot be suspended but by Act of Parliament;" to which the King returned an evasive answer. The House presented another address, declaring "that... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - 1872 - 562 pages
...their disabilities, and joined the Church of England members of the House of Commons in declaring, ' That penal statutes in matters ecclesiastical cannot be suspended but by act of parliament;' and so great were their fears and excitement, that so soon as the king revoked his declaration, they pressed... | |
 | William Dougal Christie - Great Britain - 1874 - 232 pages
...discuss the Declaration, and they resolved, at the end of two long days' debate, by 168 votes to 116, " that penal statutes in matters ecclesiastical cannot be suspended but by act of parliament;" and they voted an address to the King founded on this resolution. It was further resolved not to ask the... | |
 | Thomas Pitt Taswell- Langmead - 1875 - 876 pages
...despotic power illegal in itself, and capable of most dangerous extension. The House of Commons voted ' that penal statutes in matters ecclesiastical cannot be suspended but by Act of Parliament,' and addressed the king to recall his Declaration. In his answer the king lamented that the Commons should... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Great Britain - 1876 - 1148 pages
...in spite of all the efforts of the courtiers, it was resolved, (10th,) by a majority of 168 to 116, that " penal statutes in matters ecclesiastical cannot be suspended but by act of parliament." An address to this, effect was presented to the king, (14th ;) he replied, (24th,) asserting his ecclesiastical... | |
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Majesty that penal statutes, in matters ecclesiastical, cannot be suspended but by act of Parliament. 
