Verney papers: notes of proceedings in the Long Parliament temp. Charles I. printed from original pencil memoranda taken in the House of Sir Ralph Verney, knight, member for the borough of Aylesbury, and now in the possession of Sir Harry Verney, Bart / Edited by John Bruce.

  • Sir Ralph Verney, 1st Baronet, of Middle Claydon
Date:
1845
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Credit: Verney papers: notes of proceedings in the Long Parliament temp. Charles I. printed from original pencil memoranda taken in the House of Sir Ralph Verney, knight, member for the borough of Aylesbury, and now in the possession of Sir Harry Verney, Bart / Edited by John Bruce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    230 regulars, 30 seculars, in anno 1533. These 2 beeinge taken away, the prescription fails. The power of the clergy to make cannons, thus farr discussed. The order of kings the ordinance of God, set downe in expresse texts of scripture. This was to draw all lawes to bee interpreted by themselves. Any populer or papall power unlawfull. This was said at the breach of the parliment. Noe time of necessity, yet they absolve the kinge from all rules of goverment, and that is more then lord Straford did. They make an holyday, though the statute say, such and such shall bee kept, and noe other. The Oath. Salvation. Disipline and doctrine. Et cettera. The kinge left out.a To swere uppon noe occation not to alter, is to conspire. And this may divide the kingdom. All this beyond the comission. Non to bee absolved without taking the oath deparendo mandatis. [31st sheet.] TUESDAY, 8TH JUNE 1641. [the ARMY PLOT. The first trace in the journals of a knowledge of the army plot appears on the 28th April 1641, when Mr. Hyde was sent up to the lords with a message that the commons had a The oath ran thus, “ I A. B. do swear, That I do approve the doctrine and discipline or government established in the church of England, as containing all things necessaray to salvation, and that I will not endeavour by myself or any other, directly or indirectly, to bring in any Popish doctrine contrary to that which is so established, nor will I ever give my consent to alter the government of this church by archbishops, bishops, deans and archdeacons, &c. as it stands now established, and as by right it ought to stand, nor yet ever to subject it to the usurpations and superstitions of the see of Rome. And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear, according to the plain and common sense and understanding of the same words, without any equivocation or mental evasion, or secret reservation whatsoever ; and this I do heartily, willingly, and truly, upon the faith of a Christian. So help me God in Jesus Christ.” (Nalson. i. 538.)
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