 | John Kerr - Education - 1910 - 466 pages
...Mathematics was appointed in 1668. In 1690 a Commission was appointed and empowered to remove all officials who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary. Of the extent to which this power was exercised there is no authentic record. CHAPTER VIII SECOND PERIOD... | |
 | Chronology, Historical - 1914 - 320 pages
...to take degrees at Oxford and Cambridge Universities 1871. Nonjurors. Clergy in England and Scotland who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary. An act passed Aug. 1 , 1689, required them to take the oath within six months or else suffer deprivation.... | |
 | Frank Karslake - Autographs - 1915 - 748 pages
...was transferred to the see of Chichester. He is also reinemberable as being one of the seven Bishops who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary. At the time that we are concerned with him he was Rector of St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate, and a Prebendary... | |
 | Maurice Arthur Canney - Religion - 1921 - 416 pages
...reformers who remained In the Establishment. NONJURORS. A name given to a body of clergymen and laymen in England who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary and seceded from the national Church (1091). They Included five bishops. " Obedience to conscience,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1917 - 1382 pages
...conscience, and was one of the seven committed to the Tower in 1688. He was also one of the bishops who refused to take the oath* of allegiance to William and Mary. ' He considered that the day of death and the day of judgment were as certain as the first of August... | |
 | Elisabeth Jay - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 240 pages
...Hickes (1642-1715) and John Johnson (1662-1725). The Nonjurors were those beneficed Anglican clergy who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary in 1689, or again to George I in 1714. In their high estimate of the historical episcopate, the ministry... | |
 | Peter Fryer - History - 1984 - 652 pages
...of these rather eccentric divines. His name was Francis Brokesby and he was one of those clergymen who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary in 1690 and was deprived of his benefice. Planters, Brokesby wrote, were teaching 'That Negroes are... | |
 | Allen Reddick - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 292 pages
...of the acknowledged Anglican communion: the nonjurors. The nonjurors originally consisted of those who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary in 1688 after the forced abdication of James II because of their belief that the divine right of monarchy... | |
 | Robert D. Cornwall - Anglican Communion - 1993 - 224 pages
...England and a Christian monarch. Many Anglicans believed that the deprivation of bishops and clergy who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary was an attack on the church. Those high churchmen who faced the loss of their church offices because... | |
 | Jean C. Cooper - Reference - 1996 - 308 pages
...office for the ninth hour after suorise i,e. between noon and 3 pm Non-jurors. Those IBGH CHUgCH clergy who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary after the Hevolution of 1fi88 and who were deprived of their livings in 1fi90, Their numbers included... | |
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England who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary, believing themselves still bound by their allegiance to James II. 
