...The refusal to conform to the doctrines or discipline of any Established Church. Non-Jurors Members of the Church of England who refused to take the Oath of Allegiance to King William and Queen Mary after the revolution against King JAMES II in 1688. Numinous Word coined...

...acceptance of William as a king de facto (in possession) though not dejure (by right).22 Nonjuring clerics, who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary, maintained that the oath they had sworn to James II was not invalidated. They would live in peace under...

...the Revolution of 1688. This group included the Non-jurors, about 400 clergy including eight bishops, who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary in 1689, arguing that to do so would be to break the oath already taken to James II and his successors....

...articles of the Canons of 1604. Religious tests were finally removed in 1871. p. 251. Non-jurors: those who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary in 1688, headed by William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury. p. 251. some sort of an idea: For Newman's...

...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...

...this resistance to the Crown, Ken was afterwards, when the throne was declared vacant, one of those who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary, for which, by Act of parliament, he was deprived of his Bishoprick. The late Mr. Bowles of Bremhill...