The British Empire in the Nineteenth Century: Its Progress and Expansion at Home and Abroad, Comprising a Description and History of the British Colonies and Dependencies, Tom 1Blackie & son, limited, 1897 - 30 |
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... civil rights in the courts of justice . The internecine strife among the nobles , known as the Wars of the Roses , caused the collapse , for a time , of this constitutional liberty . The old nobles almost vanished through mutual ...
... civil rights in the courts of justice . The internecine strife among the nobles , known as the Wars of the Roses , caused the collapse , for a time , of this constitutional liberty . The old nobles almost vanished through mutual ...
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... civil war . James the First had an obvious interest , however , in asserting that birth confers rights anterior to law , and unalterable by law , for he was excluded from the throne of England by the will of Henry the Eighth , but was ...
... civil war . James the First had an obvious interest , however , in asserting that birth confers rights anterior to law , and unalterable by law , for he was excluded from the throne of England by the will of Henry the Eighth , but was ...
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... civil war . The king expiated his tyranny and his bad faith on the stricken fields of Marston Moor and Naseby , and ended his career , by the cruel , lawless , and impolitic act of a small but fanatical and powerful armed party of his ...
... civil war . The king expiated his tyranny and his bad faith on the stricken fields of Marston Moor and Naseby , and ended his career , by the cruel , lawless , and impolitic act of a small but fanatical and powerful armed party of his ...
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... civil and religious freedom . Under Charles the Second two important things - the one a wise judicial decision , the other a most beneficent statute - came to favour the personal freedom of British subjects . In 1670 , Vaughan , Chief ...
... civil and religious freedom . Under Charles the Second two important things - the one a wise judicial decision , the other a most beneficent statute - came to favour the personal freedom of British subjects . In 1670 , Vaughan , Chief ...
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... civil service . The universities were wronged and insulted by a new High Commission Court for ecclesiastical affairs , and the Church of England was out- raged both at Oxford and Cambridge , and in the person of her prelates , arrested ...
... civil service . The universities were wronged and insulted by a new High Commission Court for ecclesiastical affairs , and the Church of England was out- raged both at Oxford and Cambridge , and in the person of her prelates , arrested ...
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