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Recusants.
' But such Persons as after Conviction shall take
such Oaths (for refusing
' whereof they stand convicted) and give security to forbear meeting
' in any such lawful Assembly, shall be discharged of all the said
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' And Peers or Lords of Parliament to be tried for
every such third
' offence by their Peers.
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CHAP. LXXXI. V. 45.
Recusants.
' THis word Recusant is now become of that
import and know signification,
' to describe and design a person by, that on the account
' of adherence to the Church and Court of Rome, in her pretended
and
' falsly claimed Supremacy over all other Churches in Spiritual Matters
' (under which Head she also would comprehend all Temporal Affairs,
' as well of the highest as lowest rank, for these may be serviceable in
' some way or other to her ends, at least by Construction) doth deny to
' Temporal Princes, claiming under God Imperial Thrones, and justly possessing
' them, and to the King of England in particular; that Supremacy
' that they all lawfully may, and do some of them actually claim, as their
' great charge and duty; and which by the Statute of 26 H. 8. c.
1. is
' justly united to the Imperial Crown of this Kingdom. |
§. 1.
Recusants,
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' For the Exactions of that Church and Court proving
intolerable, and
' their ends and designs proving dangerous to Temporal Government,
' the same magnanimous King assisted with his Parliament, did effect that
' which other Princes, even in Popish times, and in Popish Countries sought
' to redress. Who although they cut off some Boughs and Branches,
yet
' leaving the Root untouched, the Tree grew even to a monstrous height
' and breadth. This wise Prince laid the Ax to the Root by the Statute
' of 26 H. 8. c. 1. having by the Statute of 24 H. 8.
c. 12. discharged all
' Appeals to Rome, and put the causes in a right Channel, to receive
a
' just and righteous decision. And by the Statutes of 25 H. 8.
c. 20 &
' 26 H. 8. 3. prevented the Court of Rome from receiving
First-Fruits for
' Ecclesiastical Livings and taken care for a Succession of Archbishops
and
' Bishops: And also by the Statute of 25 H. 8. 21. taken off
the payment
; of all Impositions to Rome, the Clergy having in Convocation recognized
' that King to be Supreme Head of the Church, and taking care for the due
' management of this asserted Jurisdiction. |
§. 2.
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' Thus stood the Kings Supremacy all the residue
of the Reign of
' Henry the Eighth, and Edward the Sixth his time, and Queen
Mary although
' an intire Papist, yet kept Supremum caput in her style, and thereby
' summoned her first Parliament; and soon after omitted it, and the
' Statutes made in her Fathers time for asserting the Kings Supremacy
' were repealed. But her Authority being short, 1 Eliz. c. 1.
those Statutes
' of Repeal were repealed, and consequently the Statutes by Queen
' Mary repealed, were revived. By which, as that Statute recites,
all usurped
' and foreign Jurisdiction was put away; and the ancient Jurisdictions,
' Superiorities and Preheminences of Right belonging to the Imperial
' Crown of this Realm thereto united, by reason whereof the Subjects
' were kept in good order, and disburdened of great and intollerable
' Exactions. And by that Statute of 1 Eliz. 1, an Oath was
directed
' for good Subjects to take; the Form you may see cap. 4 §.
5.
' and a Law made the same year, cap. 2. for establishing a Common-Prayer
' Book in English, and Uniformity in Divine Service, and requiring
all
' persons to come to Church and hear the same, under divers Penalties. |
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