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An address to the opposers of the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts.
Barbauld, Mrs. (Anna Letitia), 1743-1825.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- Books
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Thoughts on the Corporation and Test Acts: containing, an answer to a pamphlet intituled, The dispute adjusted. And shewing, that none but the wisdom of the nation can adjust the dispute, whether there may not be a proper time to repeal them.
Date: 1732- Books
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An apology for the letter from Scotland against the Sacramental Test.
Leslie, Charles, 1650-1722.Date: 1708]- Books
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The use and intent of prophecy, in the several Ages of the World: in six discourses, delivered at the Temple-Church, in April and May, 1724. Published at the Desire of the Masters of the Bench of the Two Honourable Societies. To which are added, three dissertations. I. The Authority of the Second Epistle of St. Peter. II. The Sense of the Antients before Christ, upon the Circumstances and Consequences of the Fall. III. The Blessing of Judah, Gen. xlix. The second edition corrected. By Tho. Sherlock, D. D. Dean of Chichester, and Master of the Temple. (now Lord Bishop of Bangor.)
Sherlock, Thomas, 1678-1761.Date: 1728- Books
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Observations on the present dispute concerning the repeal of the Corporation and Test-Acts. In which the conduct of those gentlemen, who are called the best friends of the Dissenters, is fairly consider'd. With some remarks on the last resolutions of the committee. By a member of the Church of England.
Member of the Church of England.Date: M.DCC.XXXIII. [1733]- Books
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A speech made in the House of Commons, on Tuesday the 24th of April, 1716. At the second reading of the Bill for enlarging the time for continuance of Parliaments, &c.
Hutcheson, Archibald, approximately 1659-1740.Date: 1716- Books
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English liberties: or, the free-born subject's inheritance. Being a help to justices as well as a guide to constables, containing, I. Magna Charta, the petition of right, The Habeas Corpus Act, &c. With Comments upon each of them. The Proceedings in Appeals of Murder; The Work and Power of Parliaments, the Qualifications necessary for such as should be Chosen to that great Trust. The Advantage Englishmen enjoy by Trials by Juries; That they are Judges of Law as well as Fact; and are not Fineable, nor to be Punish'd, for going contrary to the Judges Directions. II. Of justices of the peace; their Oath, Office, and Power, in many Respects; With several Law-Cases Alphabetically Degested for Ease and Brevity, and Warrants proper thereto, concluding with Directions for Drovers, Badgers, Butchers, Toll-Keepers, and Clerks of the Market, &c. III. The coroner and constable's duty, Relating to Dead Bodies, Murder, Man-Slaughter, and Felo-de-se; Arrests, Escapes, and Conservation of the Peace. And Lastly, The Church-Warden, Overseer, and Scavenger's Duty at Large, in the most necessary Particulars. First compiled by Henry Care, and now inlarged with new and useful additions, by a wellwisher to his country. Dedicated to the Honourable House of Commons.
Care, Henry, 1646-1688.Date: 1703- Books
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An argument on the merits of the test-act.
Date: [1717]- Books
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Extracts from such of the penal laws, as particularly relate to the peace and good order of this metropolis: with observations for the better execution of some, and on the defects of others. To which are added, The Felonies made so by Statute; some general Cautions to Shopkeepers; and a short Treatise on the Office of Constable. The whole particularly Calculated for the Inhabitants of this Metropolis. By Sir John Fielding, One of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the Counties of Middlesex, Essex, and Surry, and for the City and Liberty of Westminster.
Fielding, John, Sir, 1721-1780.Date: 1768- Books
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The argument with dissenters about subscriptions, and the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts, briefly stated, &c. In a letter to a friend.
Date: 1735- Books
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The History of the test act: In which the mistakes in some are writings against it are rectified, and the importance of it to the Church explain'd. (First published in the year 1732.)
Date: 1736- Books
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Brief remarks upon The dispute adjusted, about the proper time of applying for a repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts, by shewing that no time is proper. In a letter to a friend.
Harris, William, 1675?-1740.Date: [1733]- Books
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Of the sacramental test: to a Member of Parliament who was for the occasional bill in the former, when that bill was on foot. Being a letter reviv'd upon account of the votes of both Houses, which by refusing the motion, ... have as it were left it to the consultation of this Parliament, which of any yet is most fit to judge, whether it be conducive to the benefit or hurt of Great Britain.
Date: 1708- Books
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The conduct to be observed by Dissenters in order to procure the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts. Recommended in a sermon, preached before the congregations of the old and new meetings, at Birmingham, November 5, 1789. Printed at the Request of the Committee of the seven Congregations of the three Denominations of Protestant Dissenters, in Birmingham. By Joseph Priestley, L.L.D. F.R.S.
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804.Date: [1789]- Books
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An address to the Catholic clergy of England, by their brethren of the county of Stafford.
Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
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A letter to a friend, on the Test Act, by a Christian-believer, philanthropist, and North-Briton.
Dalrymple, Alexander, 1737-1808.Date: 1790- Books
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The rights and liberties of subjects vindicated: in answer to the adjuster of the dispute about the proper time of applying for a repeal of the corporation and test acts.
Date: [1732]- Books
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Some thoughts concerning the proposed repeal of the Test-Act, in a letter to a friend. Found among the Papers of an Eminent Free-Thinker lately Deceased; And now Published for the better Information of all the True Friends of our present happy Constitution both in Church and State.
R. M.Date: [1733]- Books
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A speech made in the House of Commons, on Tuesday the 24th of April 1716. At the second reading of the Bill for enlarging the time for continuance of Parliaments, &c.
Hutcheson, Archibald, approximately 1659-1740.Date: 1716- Books
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Reasons offer'd against pushing for the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts: Together with Some Queries upon that Important Affair: As also, a few words of advice to the pushing dissenters: occasioned by a certain paper dispersed at a late general meeting, entituled, Reasons for pushing, &c. By a Protestant dissenter, a friend to truth, peace and liberty.
Sladen, John, 1687?-1733.Date: 1732- Books
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An address to the clergy: occasion'd by one containing some Proposals for Raising and Establishing a fund, By the aid of Parliament to make a Provision for the Widows and children of clergymen.
Date: M.DCC.LV. [1755]- Books
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Political observations on the Test Act.
Brand, John, -1808.Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.XC. [1790]- Books
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Some considerations humbly offer'd touching the administration and receiving the sacrament of the Lord's supper, as directed by the Test-Act. Shewing, that the sacramental test is no security to the Church of England, against the dangers of popery. To which is added, a dialogue between an Englishan [sic] and a Scotsman, about repealing the sacramental test.
Date: 1733- Books
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An essay on the history of parties, and persecution in Britain; beginning, with a brief account of the Test-Act, and an historical enquiry into the reasons, the original, and the consequences of the occasional conformity of dissenters. With some Remarks on the several Attempts already made, and now making for an Occasional Bill. Enquiring how far the same may be esteem'd a Preservation to the Church, or an Injury to the Dissenters.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: [1711]- Books
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A country curate's observations on the advertisement, (in the morning Herald, of Thursday January 18th, 1790) from the Leeds clergy, relative to the Test Act, &c. In a letter to a friend.
Country curate.Date: [1790]