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Home Dictionary Name: romeRome-scot, or Rome-penny
Rome-scot, or Rome-penny, Peter-pence, which see, Cowel....
Rome
Rome. See ROMAN CATHOLICS and PR'MUNIRE. 25 Hen. 8, c. 21, ss. 1 and 17, and 1 Eliz. c. 1, s. 2, forbade the payment of Peter-pence to the Pope of Rome....
Appeal to Rome
Appeal to Rome, abolished by 24 Hen. 8, c. 12, commonly called the Act of Appeals, and 25 Hen. 8, cc. 19, 21....
Romanist
Romanist : a specialist in the law of ancient Rome adj : of or relating to the law of ancient Rome [ tradition] ...
Roman
Of or pertaining to Rome or the Roman people like or characteristic of Rome the Roman people or things done by Romans as Roman fortitude a Roman aqueduct Roman art...
Protestant
Protestant. This term does not occur in the Canons of 1603, or in the Thirty-nine Articles, or in the Acts of Uniformity, but appears in many statutes of later date, notably in the (English) Act of Settlement of 1700 (12 & 13 Wm. 3, c. 2), in which, by way of making further provision (in addition to that made by the Bill of Rights in 1688) 'for the succession of the Crown in the Protestant line,' the Crown was settled, in default of issue of Princess Anne of Denmark (afterwards Queen Anne) and William III., on the Princess Sophia and the heirs of her body, 'being Protestants'; it being added that 'whosoever shall hereafter come to the possession of this Crown shall join in communion with the Church of England as by law established.'The Bill of Rights (1 W. & M. sess. 2, c. 2), after reciting that 'it hath been found by experience that it is inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this Protestant kingdom to be governed by a popish prince or by any king or queen marrying a papist,' d...
Roman Catholics
Roman Catholics. Very severe laws, commonly called the penal laws, were passed against Roman Catholics, generally under the name of Papists (see that title), after the Reformation, an Act of Elizabeth, for instance, 13 Eliz. c. 2, punishing with the penalties of a pr'munire (see that title) any person bringing into this country any Agnus Dei, cross, picture, etc., from Rome; an Act of James, 3 Jac. 1, c. 5, penalizing the sale or purchase of Popish primers; and an Act of William and Mary (11 & 12 Wm. 3, c. 4), punishing any Papist assuming the education of youth with imprisonment for life. Exclusion from Parliament was effected by the requirement of the Declaration against Trans-ubstantiation (see TRANSUBSTANT- IATION) from members of either House by 30 Car. 2, s. 2, and disfranchisement by the requirements of the Oath of Supremacy by 7 & 8 Wm. 3, c. 27, s. 19; while 7 & 8 Wm. 3, c. 24, effected (until 1791) exclusion from the profession of barrister, attorney, or solicitor by requirin...
vandal
vandal [Vandal, member of a Germanic tribe who sacked Rome in A.D. 455] : a person who willfully destroys, damages, or defaces property belonging to another or to the public ...
Campagna
An open level tract of country especially ldquoCampagna di Romardquo The extensive undulating plain which surrounds Rome...
Capitolian
Of or pertaining to the Capitol in Rome...
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