Magdalen College and King James II, 1686-1688: A Series of Documents

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Oxford Historical Society at the Clarendon Press, 1886 - 292 pagina's
An account of the removal and reinstatement of John Hough as president of the college.
 

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Pagina vi - This act of violence of all those which were committed during the reign of James, is perhaps the most illegal and arbitrary. When the dispensing power "was the most strenuously .insisted on by court lawyers, it had still been allowed, that the statutes which regard private property, could not . legally be infringed by that prerogative. Yet, in this instance, it appeared that even these were not now secure from invasion. The privileges of a college are attacked; men are illegally dispossessed of their...
Pagina 229 - ... this shall be your warrant; and so we bid you heartily farewell. Given at our Court at Whitehall, llth day of November, 1684. " By his Majesty's command, SUNDERLAND.
Pagina xxxviii - AN IMPARTIAL RELATION of the whole Proceedings against St. Mary Magdalen Colledge in Oxon, in the Year of our Lord 1687; containing only Matters of Fact as they occurred.
Pagina 269 - The installation of the Duke of Wellington as Chancellor of the University of Oxford was nothing, in point of bustle and turmoil, to the installation of Mrs.
Pagina xviii - when they had ours they would take the rest, as they and the present possessors could never agree.' In short, I see it is resolved that the Papists must have our College ; and I think all we have to do is, to let the world see that they TAKE it from us, and that we do not GIVE it up. " I count it great good fortune that so many were present at...
Pagina xx - I do hereby protest against all your proceedings, and against all that you have done, or hereafter shall do, in prejudice of me and my right, as illegal, unjust, and null: and therefore I appeal to my sovereign lord the king in his courts of justice.
Pagina 262 - England and all its Rights and Immunities, his Majesty, as an evidence of it, commands me to signify to your Lordship, his Royal will and pleasure that as Visitor of St.
Pagina 2 - I was not to stir or say any thing of the business 'till I heard from him. He then told me that he was not my competitor, notwithstanding the noise of the Town that the King would make him President : that the King expected that the person he recommended should be favourable to his religion, and then asked me what I would do, or could do, therein.
Pagina xvii - On Monday morning Mr. Penn the Quaker, (with whom I dined the day before, and had a long discourse concerning the College,) wrote a letter to the King in their behalf, intimating that such mandates were a force on conscience, and not very agreeable to his other gracious indulgences.
Pagina 136 - We submit to it as far as it is consistent with the laws of the land and the statutes of the college, but no farther. There neither is nor can be a president as long as I live and obey the statutes.

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