Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries, Volume 14John S. Amery J.G. Commin, 1927 |
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Page 365 - ... or common councilman, or in or to any office of magistracy, or place, trust, or employment relating to the government of any city, corporation, borough, or cinque port within England and Wales, or the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, shall, within one calendar month next before or upon his admission into any of the aforesaid offices or trusts, make and subscribe the declaration following: Form of Declaration.] 'I AB do solemnly and sincerely, in the presence of God, profess, testify and declare, upon...
Page 365 - ... receive the sacrament of the Lord's supper, according to the usage of the Church of England...
Page 365 - Councillor, or Common Councilman, or in or to any Office of Magistracy or Place of Trust or Employment relating to the Government of any City...
Page 365 - I, AB, do solemnly and sincerely in the presence of God profess, testify, and declare, upon the true faith of a Christian, That I will never exercise any power, authority, or influence which I may possess by virtue of the office of to injure or weaken the Protestant Church as it is by law established in England...
Page 365 - That every person who shall hereafter be placed, elected, or chosen, in or to the office of mayor, alderman, recorder, bailiff, town clerk or common councilman, or in or to any office of magistracy, or place, trust, or employment relating to the government of any city...
Page 365 - I miy possess by virtue of the office of to injure or weaken the Protestant church as it is by law established in England, or to disturb the said church, or the bishops and clergy of the said church, in the possession of any rights or privileges to which such church, or the said bishops and clergy, are...
Page 365 - Act of 1673 2 intact; but it recognised, for the first time, the right of public worship beyond the pale of the state church, by exempting from the penalties of existing statutes against separate conventicles and absence from church, all persons who should take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, and subscribe a declaration against transubstantiation. Dissenting ministers were relieved from the restrictions imposed by the Act of Uniformity and the Conventicle Act upon the administration of the...
Page 373 - Her hair was of a light colour never made by nature, and she wore great pearls like pears round the forehead. She had a coif arched round her head and an imperial crown, and displayed a vast quantity of gems and pearls upon her person.
Page 174 - ... epoch-making papers of the century; indeed, along with JR Mayer, JP Joule and W. Thomson (Lord Kelvin), he may be regarded as one of the founders of the now universally received law of the conservation of energy. The year 1851, while he was lecturing on physiology at Konigsberg, saw the brilliant invention of the ophthalmoscope, an instrument which has been of inestimable value to medicine. It arose from an attempt to demonstrate to his class the nature of the glow of reflected light sometimes...
Page 189 - The Voyce of the Lord in the Temple; or a most strange and wonderfull Relation of God's great Power, Providence, and Mercy, in sending very strange Sounds, Fires, and a Fiery Ball into the Church of Anthony, in Cornwall, near Plimmouth, on Whitsunday last, 1640.