...bath and declaration is contained, that no foreign prince, per •on, prelate, state or potentate, ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority,...or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within these realms. 5. " That it appears to this committee, that scruples are entertained by his majesty's...

...us to a foreign despotism. It gave us our independence ; it engraved on our Statute-Book, " that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate,...authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm." It freed us from the wretched necessity of contributing to the foreign wars of the Papacy ; and never...

...countries, as well " in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes, ."as temporal ; and that no foreign prince, person, •*' prelate, state or potentate,...or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within the " realm : and therefore, I do utterly renounce and " forsake all foreign jurisdictions, powers,...

...limitation. Whereas these words, " I do declare that no foreign prince, prelate, states, or potentate, hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority,...ecclesiastical or spiritual within this realm,"— " might be construed to import a disclaimer of the spiritual authority of the pope, or church of Rome,...

...countries, as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical " things or cases, as temporal ; and that no foreign prince, " person, prelate, state, or potentate,...jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or au" thority ecclesiastical or temporal within this realm. And " therefore I do utterly renounce and...

...other whut" soever. And I do declare, that no foreign Prince, Per" son, Prelate, State, or Potentate, hath, or ought to have, *' any jurisdiction, power,...authority, Ecclesiastical or Spiritual, within this Realm. ." " So help me God. " AB" Declaration against Popery. * I, AB do solemnly and sincerely, in the presence...

...thereby unreservedly " and unequivocally profess and declare, in the pre" sence of Almighty God, that no foreign prince, " person, prelate, state or potentate, hath or ought to " have any jurisdiction, power, supremacy, pre" eminence, or authority, temporal, ecclesiastical or " spiritual, within this realm,...

...thereby unreservedly " and unequivocally profess and declare, in the pre" sence of Almighty God, that no foreign prince, " person, prelate, state or potentate, hath or ought to " have any jurisdiction, power, supremacy, pre" eminence, or authority, temporal, ecclesiastical or " spiritual, within this realm,...

...or temporal soever they be ; and that none other foreign power, prelate, state, or potentate, bath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority,...or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within her majesty's said realms, dominions, or countries. (2) That the book of common prayer, and of ordering...

...said oath and declaration is contained, that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate, ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority,...authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, •within these realms. 5. " That it appears to this committee, that scruples are entertained by his majesty's...