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Dissertations by the celebrated Abbots de Vertot and Anselm. Viz. I. An Enquiry whether the Kingdom of France, from the Establishment of that Monarchy, has been an Hereditary or Elective State. II. A Dissertation on the Oaths of the Ancients; under the following Heads: 1. By what Gods the Ancients were used to swear. 2. The different Ceremonies observ'd in their Oaths. 3. The Use they made of them in Civil Society. 4. Their Religious Observation of them. 5. The Horror they conceiv'd against those who openly violated them; or who, by captious Interpretations, pretended to evade the Force of them, &c. III. A Dissertation concerning the Monuments which supply'd the Defect of Writing among the First Historians. Done into English from the Memoirs of literature of the Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres at Paris. By M. Paschoud, Chaplain to the Right Honble the Earl of Albemarle.
Date: M.DCC.XXVI. [1726]- Books
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The religion of an oath, As relating to those of Allegiance, Supremacy and Abjuration, required by the government, to be taken at this time: considered in a sermon, preach'd in the parish church of Hackney, October the twentythird, 1715. Being The Sunday after the general Administration of the Oaths to the Inhabitants of that and the Neighbouring Places. By Peter Newcome, M.A. Vicar of Hackney in Middlesex. Publish'd at the general Request of the Hearers.
Newcome, Peter, 1656-1738.Date: 1715- Books
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The religion of an oath, As relating to those of Allegiance, Supremacy and Abjuration, required by the Government, to be taken at this time: considered in a sermon, preach'd in the parish church of Hackney, October the twentythird, 1715. Being The Sunday after the general Administration of the Oaths to the Inhabitants of that and the Neighbouring Places. By Peter Newcome, M.A. Vicar of Hackney in Middlesex. Publish'd at the general Request of the Hearers.
Newcome, Peter, 1656-1738.Date: 1715- Books
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A serious warning to Great Britain. Addressed to the King. To which is added, a letter to the members of both Houses of Parliament. With Outlines of an Act for abolishing Oaths in the Customs and Excise without injuring the Revenue, and also the Plan of a Reformation as successfully practised by a very great King who lost his Ships and had like to have lost his Life for keeping bad Company. By William Stewardson.
Stewardson, William.Date: [1778]- Books
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Principles upon which the taking the oath of abjuration may be grounded. Viz I. That all lawful Power is derived from the Prerogative of Divine Providence. II. That all Rights and Titles of Succession depend upon the Determination of the Supreme Legislative Power. III. That all Oaths are taken with Submission to Divine Providence and the Legislative Power. IV. That we ought Freely and Willingly to Swear to maintain that which we believe to be for the Publick Good.
Date: MDCCII. [1702]- Books
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The magistrate's assistant; or, a summary of those laws, which immediately respect the conduct of a justice of the peace: to the end of the fifth session of the sixteenth Parliament of Great-Britain, viz. to July 12, 1788. To which are Added, Forms of Warrants, Summonses, and Recognizances; Forms of Conviction and Oaths of Office, and a Compleat Index or Table of Contents. The second edition. By a country-magistrate.
Glasse, Samuel, magistrate.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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The magistrate's assistant; or, a summary of those laws, which immediately respect the conduct of a justice of the peace: to the end of the fifth session of the sixteenth Parliament Of Great-Britain, viz. to July 12, 1788. To Which are Added, Forms of Warrants, Summonses, and Recognizances; Forms of Conviction and Oaths of Office, and a Compleat Index or Table of Contents. The second edition. By a country-magistrate.
Glasse, Samuel, magistrate.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Considerations concerning oaths.
Lee, Francis, 1661-1719.Date: 1716]- Books
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Considerations concerning oaths.
Lee, Francis, 1661-1719.Date: 1722- Books
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The penal laws against Papists and Popish recusants, nonconformists and nonjurors: with the statutes relating to the succession of the Crown, forfeited estates, tumults and riots, Imprisonment of Suspected Persons; and the late Acts for obliging Papists and Nonjurors to Register their Estates. In which are comprehended all the Oaths, Submissions, Declarations, Confessions, Affirmations and Assurances, required by the Government from the First Year of Q. Elizabeth down to the Present Year 1723.
Great Britain.Date: M.DCC.XXIII. [1723]- Books
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A true state of the case of the Reverend Mr. Greenshields, now prisoner in the Tolbooth in Edinburgh, for reading common-prayer, in an episcopal congregation there; tho' qualify'd by taking the Oaths, and praying for the Queen and Princess Sophia. With Copies of several original papers relating to his Accusation, Defence, Imprisonment, and Appeal, first to the Lords of the Session in North-Britain, and since to the House of Lords.
Date: 1710- Books
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King George's title asserted: proving I. From the doubtful Birth of the Pretender: II. That the States of the Realm had Power to determine the Controversy about the Succession. III. That the Determination then made, still remains in Force, tho the States were at that Time mistaken in their Opinion of the Pretender's Birth; with the Lawfulness of the Oaths required by the present Government. In a Letter to a Gentleman at Cambridge.
Venn, Richard, 1691-1740.Date: [1745]- Books
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Determinations of the Honourable House of Commons, concerning elections, and all their incidents; as the issuing of the writ, the taking of the poll, the Scrutiny, the Return, the Qualifications of the Electors and Elected, Oaths to be taken, Rights of Election in the several Cities and Boroughs, Evidence proper on Hearing, Disqualification by Offices, Bribery, Treating, Riots. The whole digested under their proper titles; also a table of the principal matters.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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A true state of the case of the Reverend Mr. Greenshields, now prisoner in the Tolbooth in Edinburgh, for reading common-prayer, in an episcopal congregation there; tho' qualify'd by taking the Oaths, and praying for the Queen and Princess Sophia. With Copies of several original papers relating to his Accusation, Defence, Imprisonment and Appeal, first to the Lords of the Session in North-Britain, and since to the House of Lords.
Date: 1710- Books
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Fancy no faith: or, a seasonable admonition and information to seceders, against the sinful constitution of some brethren into a pretended judicatory: and against a pamphlet lately published by them, intitled, Acts and proceedings of the Associate Synod at Edinburgh, April 1747, &c. Together with some remarks upon part of a pamphlet, intitled, The warrantableness of the Associate Synod's sentence, concerning the Religious Clause of some Burgess Oaths. By Ralph Erskine, A. M. Minister of the Gospel at Dunfermline.
Erskine, Ralph, 1685-1752.Date: M.DCC.XLVII. [1747]- Books
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The scripture doctrine, history and laws, relating to oaths and vows, leagues and covenants, set forth in a full and clear light. With an introduction, occasioned by one of the fundamental propositions in Mr. Whiston's Scripture politics; and concluding with a summary Dissertation upon the same important Subject. A Work long wanted, and much desired, in order to the Solution of such Doubts and Scruples, as are apt to arise in the Minds of sober and serious Persons, concerning the solemn Nature and Obligation of those sacred Oaths, which all of us are, or may be, required to take on various Occasions, according to our respective Offices or Employments.
Date: M.DCC.LXI. [1761]- Books
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A dictionary of arms, British and foreign. To which is subjoyn'd, I. A discourse of honour in General, and in all its Branches. II. The antiquity, original, institution and duty of heralds; with the Ceremonies us'd, and Oaths taken at the Creation of every Degree among them. III. A collection of several observable things relating to heraldry. With a compleat expositor, and proper cuts. For the month of October, 1717. By Samuel Kent, Author of The Grammar of Heraldry.
Kent, Samuel.Date: [1717-18]- Books
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A good magistrate a publick blessing. Proved in a sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and the aldermen of the city of London, in Guild-Hall Chappel, on Sunday the 28th of October 1716. Being The Day appointed for Administring the Oaths to the Lord Mayor for the Year ensuing. By R. Skerret M. A. Lecturer of St. Peter's-Cornhill, Rector of Oakley in the County of Suffolk, and Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor.
Skerret, R. (Ralph), 1681?-1751.Date: [1716]- Books
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A Treatise concerning oaths and prejury.
Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Books
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A copy of the oaths required by the laws of England.
Date: 1702?]- Books
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Determinations of the Honourable House of Commons, Concerning elections, and all their incidents; as the issuing of the writ, the Taking of the Poll, the Scrutiny, the Return, the Qualification of the Electors and Elected, Oaths to be Taken, Rights of Election in the several Cities and Boroughs, Evidence proper on Hearing, Disqualification by Offices, Bribery, Treating, Riots. The Whole Alphabetically digested under proper Titles, and interspersed with Abstracts of Acts of Parliament on the Subject; also Two Tables, (viz.) One of Statutes used in the Work; the Other of the Principal Matters.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: MDCCXLI. [1741]- Books
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Determinations of the Honourable House of Commons, concerning elections, and all their incidents; as the issuing of the writ, the taking of the poll, the Scrutiny, the Return, the Qualifications of the Electors and Elected, Oaths to be Taken, Rights of Election in the several Cities and Boroughs, Evidence proper on Hearing, Disqualification by Offices, Bribery, Treating, Riots. The Whole digested under proper Titles, and interspersed with abstracts of Acts of Parliament on the Subject; also two tables, (viz.) One of Statutes used in the Work; the Other of the Principal Matters.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- Books
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A church of England-Man's reasons for taking the oaths to His present Majesty King George.
Date: [1723]- Books
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An authentic statement of the proceedings of the members of the Ancient Church of Scotland, residing in London. Respecting the mode of administering oaths.
Committee for managing the Protestant Oath Bill, for the members of the Ancient Church of Scotland.Date: [1784?]- Books
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A good expedient for innocence and peace, being an essay concerning the great usefulness and advantage of laying aside publick oaths.
Date: 1704