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The Lives of the Puritans: Containing a Biographical Account of Those ... - Page 71
by Benjamin Brook - 1813 - 18 pages
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Micaiah Towgood - Dissenters - 1812 - 610 pages
...profited : and being the same persons in several rooms, grew both courts of law to determine light, and courts of revenue to bring money into the treasury : the council-table by proclamations enjoining the people what was not enjoined by the law, and prohibiting that which was not prohibited...
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The Lives of the Puritans: Containing a Biographical Account of ..., Volume 1

Benjamin Brook - Puritans - 1813 - 498 pages
...BurneCs Hist, of his Time, vol. ip 19. .' are unparalleled. The two former were become courts of law, to determine matters of right; and courts of revenue,...very few persons of quality who did not suffer more or'less, by the weight of its censures and judgments. And the high commission became justly odious,...
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The Lives of the Puritans: Containing a Biographical Account of ..., Volume 1

Benjamin Brook - Puritans - 1813 - 494 pages
...and drinking."—Breviatt of Laud, p. 5. are unparalleled. The two former were become 'courts of law, to determine matters of right ,• and courts of revenue,...bring money into the treasury. The council-table, bjr proclamations, enjoined upon the people what was not enjoined by law; and the star-chamber punished...
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The History of the Puritans, Or Protestant Non-conformists: With ..., Volume 2

Daniel Neal - Great Britain - 1817 - 612 pages
...' but the same persons in several rooms : they were both, ' grown into courts of law, to determine right ; and courts ' of revenue, to bring money into the treasury : the council' table by proclamations enjoining to the people what was ' not enjoined by law, and prohibiting...
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The History of the Puritans, Or Protestant Non-conformists: With ..., Volume 2

Daniel Neal - Great Britain - 1817 - 656 pages
...' but the same persons in several rooms : they were both. i grown into courts of law, to determine right ; and courts ' of revenue, to bring money into the treasury : the council' table by proclamations enjoining" to the people what was ; not enjoined by law, and prohibiting...
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Lives of British Statesmen, Volume 2

John Macdiarmid - 1820 - 468 pages
...which profited ;' and being the same persons in several rooms, grew both courts of law to determine right, and courts of revenue to bring money into the treasury ; the Council-Table, by proclamations, enjoining to the t ion of security for persons and property : he knew farther, that the consciences...
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A History of the British Empire: From the Accession of Charles I ..., Volume 2

George Brodie - Great Britain - 1822 - 630 pages
...which profited ; and, being the same persons in several rooms, grew both courts of law to determine right, and courts of revenue to bring money into the treasury; the council-table, by proclamations, enjoining the people what was not enjoined by the law; and the Star-chamber censuring the breach and...
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The History of the Puritans; Or, Protestant Nonconformists;: From ..., Volume 2

Daniel Neal - Great Britain - 1822 - 552 pages
...being but the same persons in several rooms : they were both grown into courts of law, to determine right ; and courts of revenue, to bring money into the treasury: the council-table by proclamations enjoining to the people what was not enjoined by law, and prohibiting that which was not prohibited;...
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The History of the Puritans: Or, Protestant Nonconformists, from ..., Volume 2

Daniel Neal - Great Britain - 1822 - 554 pages
...being but the same persons in several rooms : they were both grown into courts of law, to determine right ; and courts of revenue, to bring money into the treasury: the council-table by proclamations enjoining to the people what was not enjoined by law, and prohibiting that which was not prohibited;...
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An Essay on the History of the English Government and Constitution: From the ...

Earl John Russell Russell - Constitutional history - 1823 - 676 pages
...which profited ;' and being the same persons in several rooms, grew both courts of law to determine right, and courts of revenue to bring money into the treasury ; the Council-Table by proclamations enjoining to the people what was not enjoined by the law, and prohibiting that which was not prohibited...
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