...by its subversion, the civil constitution, of the country. The Test act, which passed in 1672, was entitled an act for preventing dangers which may happen from popish recusants ; and which, therefore, Mr. Beaufoy maintained, could not, with justice, apply to protestant dissenters....

...Corporation Acts : " In the year 1672, the 2jth of the reign of King Charles II. an act was passed, entitled, ' An act for preventing dangers which may happen from popish recusants :' by which it is enacted, ' That all and every person or persons, that shall be admitted, entered,...

...against papists or popish recusants, except the statute made in the 25th year nf king 'Charles ll.§ entitled, an act for preventing dangers which may happen from popish recusants. And except also the statute made in the 30th year of the said king Charles Il.|| entitled, an act for...

...trunsubstantiation, contained in the act made in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of King Charles the second, entitled, an act for preventing dangers which may happen from popish recusants, before the said archbishop, bishop, or ordinary; which said oaths and declarations .the said archbishop,...

...declared to he void. The Test Act was passed in ]6"2, in a period of great ferment and distraction. It is entitled, "An Act for preventing Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants." Among other things, it is enacted. That every person that shall be admitted into any office, civil...

...transubstantiation, contained in the act made in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of king Charles II. entitled, " An act for preventing dangers which may happen from Popish recusants," before the said archbishop, bishop, or ordinary ; which said oaths and declarations the said archbishop,...

...explained in the preamble, which also describes the public necessities out of which it arose. The act is entitled an act " for preventing dangers which may happen from Popish recusants, and quieting the minds of his majesty's good subjects, &c." The minds of his majesty's good subjects...

...employments according to an act of parliament made in the 25th year of the reign of your royal brother, entitled ' An Act for preventing dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants;' we do, out of our bounden duty, humbly represent unto your Majesty, that such officers cannot by law...

...Papists or Popish recusants, except the statute made in the twenty-fifth year of King Charles II,t entitled " an act for preventing dangers which may happen from Popish recusants," and except also the statute made in the thirtieth year of the said King Charles H,J entitled "an act...

...the declaration against (rnusubsttmtiation in the Act of Parliament, 25 Car. II. c. 2. (a. 1673.), entitled " An Act for preventing dangers which may happen from Popish recusants," in which, to prevent Papists from holding any public offices of trust, all persons appointed to such...