 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 710 страници
...spite of all the efforts of the courtiers, it was resolved on the 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; he replied on the 24th, asserting his ecclesiastical... | |
 | John Brown - 1904 - 162 страници
...broke through forty Acts of Parliament, repealable by Parliament alone. The debate closed with a vote that " Penal Statutes in matters ecclesiastical cannot be suspended but by Act of Parliament." The King wavered for a while, but at length, on the 8th of March, he cancelled the Declaration, tearing... | |
 | EDWARD.P. CHEYNEY - 1904 - 882 страници
...the declaration, claiming that by it forty laws on the statute book were rendered of no effect and that " penal statutes in matters ecclesiastical cannot be suspended but by act of parliament." As the king was extremely anxious just at this time to keep on good terms with parliament he gave way... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1906 - 776 страници
...Forty statutes, it was said, had been violated by the Declaration, and the House passed a resolution that "penal statutes in matters ecclesiastical cannot be suspended but by act of Parliament." Charles tried to evade the summons of the Commons, but the Lords having come on March 7 to the same... | |
 | R. W. Dale - 1907 - 808 страници
...ministry.48 Parliament met again on February 4, 1672-3, and within a week the Commons resolved — -" That Penal Statutes, in matters ecclesiastical, cannot be suspended but by Act of Parliament." The resolution was carried on a division by 168 votes to 116 ; and on February 14, a petition and address... | |
 | R. W. Dale - 1907 - 812 страници
...ministry.48 Parliament met again on February 4, 1672-3, and within a week the Commons resolved — " That Penal Statutes, in matters ecclesiastical, cannot be suspended but by Act of Parliament." The resolution was carried on a division by 168 votes to 116 ; and on February 14, a petition and address... | |
 | Clement Boulton Roylance Kent - 1908 - 512 страници
...suspended. ' The House of Commons was immediately in a flame of indignation, and passed a resolution that penal statutes in matters ecclesiastical cannot be suspended but by Act of Parliament.' Not even the Dissenters were inclined to accept a measure of toleration effected in a manner that seemed... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Sir Stanley Mordaunt Leathes - 1908 - 1042 страници
...rather than an angry channel. A division gave a vote of 168 to 116 in favour of the\ resolution, " That Penal Statutes in matters ecclesiastical cannot be \ suspended but by act of Parliament," which was embodied in a respectful petition to the King that the laws should once more be given their... | |
 | 1904 - 834 страници
...consideration by the House of Commons, which, after a long and fierce debate, resolved by 168 votes to 116, "That Penal Statutes, in matters Ecclesiastical, cannot be suspended but by Act of Parliament " ; and an address to that effect was ordered to be drawn up and presented to the king; a further debate... | |
 | Arthur Stapylton Barnes - 1908 - 376 страници
...of the Church party. The Commons at length carried by 168 to 116 an utterly illogical resolution, ' That penal statutes in matters ecclesiastical cannot be suspended, but by Act of Parliament,' and followed it up by a respectful petition to the king to allow the laws of the realm once more to... | |
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Majesty that penal statutes, in matters ecclesiastical, cannot be suspended but by act of Parliament. 
