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Reformed
Corrected amended restored to purity or excellence said specifically of the whole body of Protestant churches originating in the Reformation Also in a more restricted sense of those who separated from Luther on
Passive resisters
Passive resisters, those persons who, as a protest against the expenditure of a local authority in connection with an object of which they disapprove, decline to
Coke, Sir Edward
King James upon the question of the Law Officers interfering with the judges, and also that he strongly protested against 'the cursed gallows tree' so frequently in use in his day. He died in 1634. Author of
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Coronation oath
kingdom, the sovereign swears to observe the laws, customs, and privileges of the kingdom, and to maintain the Protestant reformed religion. The exact form of the oath was prescribed by 1 w. & M. s. 2, c.
Foreign Bill of Exchange
of Exchange Act, 1882. By the law of merchants, the holder of a foreign bill is obliged to protest it for non-payment, and also for non-acceptance, whenever notice of such non-acceptance is necessary. See Chitty, Byles, Bayley,
Gordon Riots
Gordon Riots, a series of violent 'No Poperty' disturbances which occurred in London in June, 1780, so called after Lord George Gordon, the President of the 'Protestant Association.' The authorities behaved with the utmost imbecility and...
H'retico comburendo, De
9, s. 1, the writ de h'retico comburendo was abolished, but with a saving for the jurisdiction of Protestant archbishops or bishops or any other judges of any ecclesiastical courts to punish, according to his Majesty's ecclesiastical
King
and Princess Anne without issue on the Electress Sophia of Hanover 'and the heirs of her body being Protestants'; the Union with Scotland Act, 1706 (6 Anne, c. 11), which constituted one kingdom of Great Britain; and
Lollardy
singing of funeral dirges, Mosh.], a vulgar term of reproach brought from Belgium an given to the early Protestants (the followers of Wycliffe) as far back as the reign of Edward III. the Lollards closely resembled the
Nantes, edict of
Nantes, edict of, for the security of Protestants, made by Henry IV. of France, and revoked by Louis XIV., October 2, 1685.
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