 | George Lewis - 1924 - 216 páginas
...compliance.' 1 6. The Engagement (1650). This exacted a promise from all civil officers and beneficed clergy to be true and faithful to the commonwealth of England, ' as it is now established without King or Lords,' which has been described 2 as the slightest test of allegiance... | |
 | Annabel M. Patterson - 1984 - 308 páginas
..."Engagement to be taken by all men of the age of eighteen" read, "I do declare and promise, that I will be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England, as it is now established, without a King or House of Lords."34 It was typical of Cromwell's conciliatory tendencies... | |
 | Deborah Baumgold - 1988 - 232 páginas
...England, the Rump Parliament exacted an oath of allegiance from most literate Englishmen. The oath, to be "true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England, as it is now Established, without a King or House of Lords," was extended, the following January, to apply to all... | |
 | Gerard Reedy - 1992 - 200 páginas
...execution of the king, Parliament legislated that all men over the age of 18 had to swear a simple oath "to be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England, as it is now established, without a King or House of Lords" (2 January 1650). The instructions for taking the oath... | |
 | Richard W. F. Kroll, Richard Ashcraft, Perez Zagorin - 1992 - 312 páginas
...possibly the comforts of being without "a conscience most ridiculously boggling," 23 had just engaged to be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England, as it was then established, without a King or House of Lords: As for the other, viz y e loose sheet concerning... | |
 | Richard Paul Bellamy, Angus C. Ross - 1996 - 356 páginas
...Cromwellian regime by subscribing to the following Engagement: 'I do declare and promise, That I will be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England, as it is now established, without a king or House of Lords'. However, such oaths are unsatisfactory as examples... | |
 | David Haley - 1997 - 316 páginas
...government officers (including Richard Busby, Dryden's schoolmaster at Westminster) had to promise to "be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England as it is now established, without a king or House of Lords." Three months later this Engagement was extended to... | |
 | Gilbert Geis, Ivan Bunn - 1997 - 308 páginas
...Promulgated early in 1651, it required that the person swear: "I do declare and promise that I will be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England as it is now established without a King or a house of lords.'" At the Inner Temple, where Hale resided, every barrister... | |
 | A. P. Martinich - 1999 - 430 páginas
...eighteen. Women did not count. The prescribed formula was as follows: "I do declare and promise that I will be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England as it is now established without a king or House of Lords." Technically, a man could avoid the engagement; but if... | |
 | Douglas M. Jesseph - 1999 - 440 páginas
...engagement that stands at the center of the controversy reads, "I do declare and promise that 1 will be true and faithful to the commonwealth of England, as it is now established, without a King or House of Lords" (Prall 1968, 238). ence" encapsulates the principal... | |
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I do declare and promise, that I will be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England, as it is now established, without a King or House of Lords. 
