| Anthony Highmore - 1809 - 632 páginas
...to the latter view, although that was a very wise one ; for by that means, in times of popery, the clergy got almost half the real property of the kingdom...the rest, as people thought they thereby purchased heaven. As to the other view, it is of the last consequence to a trading kingdom ; to which the locking... | |
| Henry Maddock - 1817 - 440 páginas
...being imposed on to give away their real estates from their families ; for, in times of popery, the clergy got almost half the real property of the kingdom into their hands ; and, indeed, says Lord Hardwicke, *" I *52 wonder they did not get the rest ; as people thought they thereby purchased... | |
| John Joseph Powell - 1822 - 648 páginas
...death-bed dispositions nearly half the real property of the kingdom ; and, indeed, says Lord Hardwicke, " I wonder they did not get the rest, as people thought they thereby purchased heaven." l Ves. 223. The subject of charitable uses and bequests is fully and lucidly commented on... | |
| Henry Maddock - 1827 - 520 páginas
...almost half the real Property *of the Kingdom [*63 into their hands: "and, indeed," says Lord Hardwicke, "I wonder they did not get the rest ; as people thought they thereby purchased Heaven (/)." Nothing is more clearly established than that under this Statute no Interest whatever,... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Chancery - 1831 - 564 páginas
...latter view; although that was a very wise one ; for by that means, in times of popery, the clergy «ot almost half the real property of the kingdom into...the rest : as people thought they thereby purchased heaven. But it is so far from being charity or piety, that it is rather a monument of impiety, and... | |
| William Robert Augustus Boyle - 1837 - 646 páginas
...Lordship represented it as being a very wise one ; " for by that means," said he " in times of popery, the clergy got almost half the real property of the kingdom into their hands ; and indeed he wondered they did not get the rest, as people thought they thereby purchased Heaven. But it was... | |
| William Francis Finlason - 1853 - 296 páginas
...|| from being imposed upon to give away their real estate ; by which means, in times of popery, the clergy got almost half the real property of the kingdom into their possession ; and, indeed, I wonder they did not get the rest, as people fancied they thereby purchased... | |
| Owen Davies Tudor - 1856 - 942 páginas
...With regard to the latter view, it was a very wise one; for by that means, in times of popery, the clergy got almost half the real property of the kingdom...the rest ; as people thought they thereby purchased heaven. But it is so far from being charity or piety, that it is rather a monument of impiety, and... | |
| Owen Davies Tudor - 1862 - 702 páginas
...With regard to the latter view, it was a very wise one ; for by that means, in times of Popery, the clergy got almost half the real property of the kingdom...the rest, as people thought they thereby purchased heaven. But it is so far from being charity or piety, that it is rather a monument of impiety, and... | |
| Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1862 - 612 páginas
...possess themselves of nearly one-half of the whole of the real property of the kingdom, and he wonders they did not get the rest, as people thought they thereby purchased heaven. Judge DUER says : " We cannot suppose that the legislature meant to condemn and reject the... | |
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