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The Seven Bishops were members of the Church of England tried and acquitted for seditious libel in the Court of Kings Bench in June 1688. The very unpopular...18 KB (2,287 words) - 13:59, 16 May 2024
Thomas Powys (judge) (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies)British House of Commons between 1701 and 1713. He was Attorney General to King James II and was chief prosecutor at the trial of the Seven Bishops in June...10 KB (1,034 words) - 18:09, 15 January 2024
John Somers, 1st Baron Somers (category Members of the Privy Council of England)attention in the trial of the Seven Bishops where he was on their defence counsel. He published tracts on political topics such as the succession to the crown...30 KB (3,926 words) - 20:16, 1 July 2023
of Reason the grievances that would result in the 1688 Bill of Rights. Regarding the right to petition he referenced the Trial of the Seven Bishops where...21 KB (2,617 words) - 03:21, 17 August 2024
Lords Spiritual (redirect from Convenor of the Lords Spiritual)the House of Lords, it remained unclear whether the Lords Spiritual were indeed peers. In 1688, the issue arose during the trial of the Seven Bishops—William...24 KB (2,902 words) - 13:03, 23 August 2024- religious policy, the Ecclesiastical Commission was disbanded on his instructions after the acquittals in the Trial of the Seven Bishops. Following James'...2 KB (222 words) - 13:19, 7 August 2021
- Seditious libel (redirect from Seditious speech in the United States)defence but in the Trial of the Seven Bishops (1688), the seven Lords Spiritual including the Archbishop of Canterbury were acquitted of seditious libel...10 KB (1,321 words) - 02:05, 16 June 2024
John Powell (judge) (category Justices of the Common Pleas)1696) was a Welsh judge on the Court of Common Pleas and the Court of King's Bench. He presided over the trial of the Seven Bishops in 1688. Born in 1632 or...4 KB (530 words) - 23:18, 13 March 2023
Robert Sawyer (Attorney General) (category Members of the pre-1707 Parliament of England for the University of Cambridge)defence counsel in the Trial of the Seven Bishops. Sawyer settled at Highclere in Hampshire where he built the house that preceded the present Highclere...3 KB (294 words) - 01:58, 23 January 2022
William Blathwayt (category Members of Parliament for the Isle of Wight)daughter of John Wynter of Dyrham Park. Blathwayt was a witness for the prosecution at the Trial of the Seven Bishops in 1688 and he lost the politically...11 KB (1,036 words) - 03:02, 19 March 2024
under the recently enthroned James: the violently hostile reception he got from the public when he gave evidence at the Trial of the Seven Bishops left...21 KB (2,054 words) - 22:50, 15 August 2024
Cadaver Synod (redirect from Cadaver Trial)dead for about seven months, in the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome during January 897. The trial was conducted by Pope Stephen VI, the successor to...19 KB (2,574 words) - 09:13, 17 July 2024
Laugharne (redirect from Charter of Laugharne)Cromwell. Later Bishop of St Davids and Bishop of Worcester. Sir John Powell (1632/3–1696), judge who presided over the trial of the Seven Bishops in 1688, lived...41 KB (4,280 words) - 21:52, 18 July 2024- Francis Hawkins (priest) (category Deans of Chichester)and the Trial of the Seven Bishops. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-349-30163-8. Goodwin, Gordon (1889). Edward Fitzharris. Dictionary of National...7 KB (776 words) - 01:01, 23 March 2024
Huw Morus (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)to the same interest, and vigorously denounced the Rye House plot in 1683. But his churchmanship was deeply protestant, and the trial of the seven bishops...3 KB (564 words) - 10:19, 26 March 2024- Richard Allibond (category Justices of the King's Bench)ignorant of the law than Sir Robert Wright, who had been appointed Lord Chief Justice of England. At the famous Trial of the Seven Bishops in Trinity...3 KB (417 words) - 16:18, 29 May 2023
wisdom of remaining faithful to the national traditions and liberties. He took the popular side on the occasion of the trial of the Seven Bishops in June...38 KB (4,974 words) - 16:46, 26 July 2024- George Bower (medallist) (category Year of birth missing)to the trial of the seven bishops. He also produced a medal celebrating the landing of William III at Torbay in 1688 and the coronation medal of William...2 KB (312 words) - 13:33, 9 July 2024
- John Rogers Herbert (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)(1842) The Procession of the Brides of Venice (1843) Sir Thomas More and his Daughter (1844) The Trial of the Seven Bishops (1844) St. Gregory the Great...9 KB (1,204 words) - 05:16, 8 August 2023
Richard Leveson (died 1699) (category Williamite military personnel of the Williamite War in Ireland)'the Protestant religion.' Although Robert Leveson confirmed his willingness to do so, his son Richard refused; combined with the trial of the Seven Bishops...10 KB (939 words) - 17:37, 16 September 2023
- of England, vii. 209; Foss's Biographia Juridica, 12; Wood's Athen. Oxon. ed. Bliss, ii. 441; The Trial of the Seven Bishops in Howell's State Trials
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- such as bishops and archbishops). Charles sent his armies to Scotland, but was quickly forced to end the conflict, known as the First Bishops' War, because