...twentieth day of September . . . [1667] . . . subscribe the declaration following. I AB do declare That it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take arms against the King . . . and that I will conforme to the liturgy of the Church of Ireland, as is by law established. 12. [In 1661 Episcopacy...

...restraining Non-Conformists from Inhabiting in Corporations. The Oath prescribed in it is: 'I AB do swear, That it is not lawful upon any Pretence whatsoever,...take Arms against the King ; and that I do abhor that traiterous Position of taking Arms by his Authority against his Person, or against those that are Commissioned...

...Militia Act of 1662 1 required of Lord-Lieutenants and their deputies, officers, and soldiers, an oath ' that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take arms against the King', with the clause, ' I do abhor that traitorous position, that arms may be taken by his authority against...

...members of Parliament to the king, § a. ' 13 Charles II. st. 2 c. i § 3 ; the oath ran as follows, " I AB do declare and believe that it is not lawful...authority against his person or against those that are commissioned by him." ' §§ i and 5. a § 6. future no one was to be eligible for office unless...

...swear (besides the oaths of allegiance and supremacy) "that it is not lawful on any pretence whatever to take arms against the King, and that I do abhor...taking arms by his authority against his person," as was done in 1642; (2) to declare the Covenant null and unlawful; (3) to have received the Sacrament...

...members of Parliament to the king, § 2. ' 13 Charles II. St. 2 c. i § 3 ; the oath ran as follows, " I AB do declare and believe that it is not lawful...authority against his person or against those that are commissioned by him." 7 §§iands. 8 §6. future no one was to be eligible for office unless he...

...corporation, should when called upon take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy and also as follows : " I, AB, do declare and believe that it is not lawful...authority against his person or against those that are com(81). S. P., 1662, v. 57,72. missioned by him." Each had also to subscribe that : " I, AB, do...

...clerk, bound themselves by the oath and declaration that it was not lawful upon any pretence whatever to take arms against the king, and " that I do abhor that traitorous position of taking armes by his authority ag' his person or against those that are commissioned by him," and that there...

...or any three or more of them, take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, and this oath following: ‘I, AB, do declare and believe that it is not lawful,...king; and that I do abhor that traitorous position of raking arms by his authority against his person, or against those that are commissioned by him: so...

...clergy in the corporation act (1661) and the act of uniformity (1662). They were to swear that it was not 'lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take arms against the king'. Seller wrote of the declaration as aimed at the doctrines of the early civil war, including the principle...