Selections from the Judicial Records of Renfrewshire: Illustrative of the Administration of the Laws in the County, and Manners and Condition of the Inhabitants, in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. With Notes Introductory and Explanatory, Facsimiles of Old Documents, and Plan of Paisley--1490 Till about 1545. (Second series)

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J. & J. Cook, 1876 - 327 páginas
 

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Página 168 - ... fast be reverently and devoutly observed by all our loving subjects in England and Ireland, as they tender the favour of Almighty God, and would avoid his wrath and indignation and upon pain of such punishment as may be justly inflicted on all such as contemn and neglect the performance of so religious and necessary a duty...
Página 168 - March next, that so both we and our people may humble ourselves before Almighty God, in order to obtain pardon of our sins, and in the most devout and solemn manner send up our prayers and supplications to the Divine Majesty, for imploring His blessing and assistance on our arms, for the restoration of...
Página 168 - God, in order to obtain pardon of our sins, and, in the most devout and solemn manner, send up our prayers and supplications to the Divine Majesty for averting those heavy judgments which our manifold provocations have most justly deserved...
Página 166 - ... to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, there to be hanged by the neck till you are dead; and may God, in his infinite goodness, have mercy on your soul!
Página 169 - Majesty's justices of the peace of the county, city, riding, division, or liberty where such house or place shall be situate, to enter such house or place, and to seize every person who shall be found therein, in order that they may be dealt with according to law ; and every person keeping such house, room, garden, or other place, without such...
Página 168 - We at this present time labour; and We do strictly charge and command, that the said public Fast be reverently and devoutly observed by all Our loving subjects in England and Ireland, as they tender the favour of Almighty God.
Página 174 - AB, one of the commissioners appointed in pursuance of the sixth article of the Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation, between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America...
Página 65 - James, and since his decease pretended to be, and took upon himself the stile and title of King of England, by the name of James the Third, or of Scotland, by the name of James the Eighth, or the...
Página 312 - it has likewise been objected that, in the parliament of Scotland, the king has not a negative voice, but must pass the laws agreed on by the lords and commons. I can assure you that the form of parliament there is nothing inclined to popularity. About twenty days before parliament, proclamation is made to deliver to the king's clerk-register all bills to be exhibited that session.
Página 313 - ... in the year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lady Victoria, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...

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