The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Catholic Religion in England: During a Period of Two Hundred and Forty Years from the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time : Including the Memoirs of Gregorio Panzani, Envoy from Rome to the English Court, in 1643, 1644, and 1645 ...

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Страница 9 - VI, which is, and was of ancient time due to the imperial crown of this realm , that is , under God to have the sovereignty and rule over all manner of persons born within these her realms, dominions, and countries , of what estate, either ecclesiastical or temporal , soever they be , so as no other foreign power shall or ought to have any superiority over them.
Страница 281 - I am pressed by both Houses to give way to his execution; because I will avoid the inconveniency of giving so great a discontent to my people, as I conceive this mercy may produce; therefore I remit this particular cause to both Houses.
Страница 71 - Caesar's due unto her, we may also, by her gracious leave, be permitted, for avoiding obloquies and calumnies, to make known by like public act, that, by yielding her right unto her, we depart from no bond of that christian duty, which we owe unto our supreme spiritual pastor.
Страница 202 - I have writes to the , , , ... .- , . . , . latter. made a religious viiit to the ieven churches " to obtain by my poor prayers what, I have " reafon to fear, my fins have otherwife made " me unworthy of. However, if I forget thee, " let my right hand be forgotten : let my tongue cleave " to the roof of my mouth, if I prefer not Britain " above my chief joy. — I cannot pafs over in " fiience the concern I feel, on account of
Страница 309 - Laws mould be repealed. And after that Committee was appointed, the Roman Catholick Lords and their Friends for fome Days diligently attended it, and made their Obfervations upon feveral Acts of Parliament, in which They defired Eafe. But on a fudden this Committee was difcontinued, and never after revived...
Страница 281 - Lastly, concerning John Goodman the priest; I will let you know the reason why I reprieved him. That, as I am informed, neither Queen Elizabeth, nor my father did ever avow that any priest in their time was executed merely for religion, which to me seems to be this particular case.
Страница 18 - Barrington, a Popish Bishop, thus expresses himself. ' For some time the great body of the (Roman Catholic) clergy, conformed exteriorly to the law. It was afterwards more than once publicly declared by Sir Edward Coke, when Attorney-general, which the queen herself confirmed in a letter to Sir Francis Walsingham, that for the first two years of her reign, the Roman Catholics, without doubt or scruple, repaired to the parish churches: the assertion is true, if not too generally applied.
Страница 238 - ... unity. That for his own part he knew no tenet of the Church of Rome to which he was not willing to subscribe, unless it were the article of Transubstantiation, which word he had reason to think was invented by Pope Innocent III. after the Council of Lateran was risen. He owned he had some scruples concerning communion in one kind ; but as for particular points, he thought the best method would be to choose moderate men deputies on both sides, to draw . up the differences in as small a compass...
Страница 238 - ... union, adding that he was satisfied both the archbishops, with the bishop of London and several others of the episcopal order, besides a great number of the learned inferior clergy, were prepared to fall in with the church of Rome as to a supremacy 'purely spiritual'; and that there was no other method of ending controversies than by having recourse to some centre of ecclesiastical unity.
Страница 28 - Parsons was the principal author, the incentor, and the mover, of all our garboils at home and abroad. During the short space of nearly two years that he spent in England, so much did he irritate, by his actions, th...

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