... Corporations were formed for the preservation of the Protestant interest in this country, and were confined to the freemen of the city, and bear in mind that Roman Catholic disabilities existed. The entire of this state of things is altered—these disa- bilities ...

... The bishops and clergy were hound in their ordina. tion vows not to cease their efforts till they had no place left for ungodliness, and to make known the truth to all that were under their charge. They bad no business to recognise any Popish priest that ...

... And our oppressson hath made up this leazue- Arm, arm, you heavens, against these perjur’d kings, Let not the hours of this ungodly day Wear out the day im peace; bat, ere sun-set, Set discord ‘twixt these perjar’d kings!” The second item in the cost of ...

... country. That plot is called a Popish plot. There is, 1 believe, no douht it as concocted at home, and that emissaries from that city were the inspiring agents in the attempt. It was a conspiracy to destroy the Protestant Church and Government—to change the ...

... at the entrance by the Victoria tower. The pious bishops, in their sumptuous sacerdotal robes made a goodly shew before an ungodly world. The judges came, in their black gowns, and all the venerable absurdity of their enormous wigs. Mr. Justice Talfourd ...

... more than possible the city is now in our hands. We only wish that it may be so. Dreadful as it must be to reflect on the possibility of (0,0r.0 British and French soldiers and some 30,* 00 Turk* suddenly let loose upon a city that has so long defied ...

... charges Constable ith having used his influence— either “officially” or “parochially,” like friend Bumble, to prevent an ungodly miller from, violating her Majesty’s Royal command, by working on tbe day of humiliation. The second for having extorted the ...

... lightened through me. The man t thereupon obeyed, and they proceeded together to his house, which was in a remote part of the city. There were but two miserable rooms, with a roof which was beginning to fall in, from decay. The wood-cutter having thrown ...

... her Majesty's commission for 'he gaols of this city and county at the present ' ed in York, last Saturday afternoon, by the °eils 88 train from London - P eal tne Minster ,* °uneed the arrival in the city of Henry Wilana » ? s Birdsall, tbe High-Sheriff ...

... Lordships entered the carriage of the City Sheriff (G. P. Bainbkidge, Esq.), who was accompanied by T. Noble, Eeq., his Under-Sheriff. The cavalcade thence proceeded tothe Guildhall, where the commission for the city was read, both Courts being adjourned ...