 | Thomas Keightley - 1876 - 1148 страници
...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... | |
 | Robert Henlopen Labberton - 1876 - 278 страници
...firm and independent spirit. 10606. What forced Charles to cancel his Declaration ? Parliament decided "that penal statutes in matters ecclesiastical cannot be suspended but by Act of Parliament." 10607. Were the Commons satisfied with the cancelling of the Declaration * No. They passed an Act to... | |
 | Ruth Shearman Murray - 1879 - 258 страници
...assembling of Parliament in 1673, the Commons, after a stormy debate, passed a resolution " that pe154 nal statutes in matters ecclesiastical cannot be suspended but by act of Parliament, and that an address and petition for satisfaction should be presented to the King." Charles was averse... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1881 - 526 страници
...expressed by several of the members ; yet they pursued a decided course, and passed this resolution : " That penal statutes, in matters ecclesiastical, cannot be suspended, but by Act of Parliament," % a resolution which they carried by 168 against 116. The House afterwards considered an address to... | |
 | Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead, Charles Henry Edward Carmichael - 1886 - 870 страници
...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... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill - 1886 - 256 страници
...an address founded upon the resolution, recently carried by a majority of fifty -two, to the effect that ' penal statutes in matters ecclesiastical cannot be suspended but by act of Parliament.' Charles returned a temporising reply, and about a week after the Commons followed up their address... | |
 | John Brown - 1886 - 538 страници
...resolute words expressed a feeling widely shared ; and, after vehement debate, the House resolved, that penal statutes in matters ecclesiastical cannot be suspended but by Act of Parliument. Four days later this resolution was followed by the voting of an address conveying that... | |
 | William Deverell - 1887 - 350 страници
...that, considering the Declaration of Indulgence, they found themselves bound in duty to inform him that Penal Statutes, in matters ecclesiastical, cannot be suspended but by Act of Parliament ; in other words, by themselves, who had specially passed those Acts — in terror of the Republic,... | |
 | Osmund Airy - 1888 - 320 страници
...of Parliament, repealable by Parliament alone. The debate closed with a vote, carried by 168 to 116, that ' Penal statutes in matters ecclesiastical cannot be suspended but by Act of Parliament.' Beyond the challenge thus thrown down to the King, the debate was important as showing the distance... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1891 - 344 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.' Both sides were anxious to limit the question to ecclesiastical statutes : Charles, because ihe powers... | |
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Majesty that penal statutes, in matters ecclesiastical, cannot be suspended but by act of Parliament. 
