A true account of the Gunpowder-plot, extr. from dr. Lingard's History of England, and Dodd's Church history, with notes by Vindicator

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Page 92 - Chamber, and all jurisdiction, power and authority belonging unto or exercised in the same Court, or by any...
Page 87 - May, in the sixteenth year of our Reign, of England, France and Ireland; and of Scotland the one and fiftieth.
Page 55 - It resteth now, that I should shortly inform you what is to be done hereafter, upon the occasion of this horrible and strange accident. As for your part, that are my faithful and loving subjects of all degrees, I know that your hearts are so burnt up with zeal in this errand, and your tongues so ready to utter your dutiful affections, and your hands and feet so bent to concur in the execution thereof (for which, as I need not to...
Page 107 - EVERY minister being a preacher, and having any popish recusant or recusants in his parish, and thought fit by the bishop of the diocese, shall labour diligently with them from time to time, thereby to reclaim them from their errors. And if he be no preacher, or not such a preacher, then he shall procure, if he can possibly, some that are preachers so qualified, to take pains with them for that purpose. If he can procure none, then he...
Page 112 - But howe these tyrannicall proceedinges of such base officers may drive particular men to desperate attempts, that I cannot answer for, the kinge's wisedome will foresee. "I have a letter from Field in Ireland, whoe telleth me that of late there was a verie severe proclamation against all ecclesiastical!
Page 2 - Charles Dodd, with Notes, and a Continuation to the Beginning of the present Century. By the Rev. MA Tierney, FRS, FSA Vols. I. to V. are published, price 12s. each in cloth. Vol. VI. preparing for press. NB — Subscribers' names may be transmitted to the Publisher through any Bookseller in the Country.
Page 18 - ... the dangere is passed as soon as yowe have burnt the letter and i hope god will give yowe the grace to make good use of it to whose holy proteccion i commend yowe.
Page 12 - From all comments on the work, as a history, we abstain : but we may say it has achieved such a success, and obtained in the eye of the public such a position, that the possession of this new and revised edition is essential to the completion of every library. The typography is beautiful, and the work, independently of all intrinsic merit, will ornament any shelves where it may find a place.
Page 100 - ... they come to the church, yet do refuse to receive the communion), are inhabitants, or make their abode, either as sojourners or common guests, in any of their several parishes ; and shall set down their true names in writing...
Page 107 - ... be every six months ensuing, as well in the parish church, as in the cathedral church of the diocese, in which they remain, by the minister openly in time of Divine Service, upon some Sunday, denounced and declared excommunicate...

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