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Nonjuror
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
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Nonjuror a member of the clergy who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary in 1689.
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Judge wrong to jail nonjuror
Newspaper article from: Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA; 7/15/2002; 319 words
; TO THE EDITOR: Shame on Judge Ashworth. Ms. Linda Marshall is guilty of thumbing her nose at the system; she's not a felon, a predator or a danger to society. What were you thinking (to imprison her for failing to show up for jury duty)? To take a citizen's liberty and subject her to real criminals
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High Church Anglican Influences on John Wesley's Conception of Primitive Christianity, 1732-1735
Magazine article from: Anglican and Episcopal History; 6/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...predecessors including his parents, and the nonjurors, Anglicans who declined to take the...his native land. High churchmen and nonjurors placed a strong emphasis on episcopacy...the Church Fathers.4 In this essay, nonjurors are considered together with other high...
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Revolutionary England and the National Covenant: State Oaths, Protestantism, and the Political Nation, 1553-1682.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...on oaths, one would have liked a longer examination of the Nonjurors who would have provided a useful contrast to the Covenanters...their Solemn League and Convenant oaths, the refusal of the Nonjurors to renounce their oaths to James II takes on a certain irony...
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Jonathan Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill, eds. Samuel Johnson in Historical Context.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion; 6/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...might be classed as political: they argue that Johnson was a Nonjuror and Jacobite, put Johnson's two failed "Patriot" politician...Clark, "Religion and Political Identity: Samuel Johnson as a Nonjuror" is a large essay. Given that Clark had already published...
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The Evolving Reputation of Richard Hooker: An Examination of Responses, 1600-1714.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 12/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...was used against divine right monarchy by supporters of the Revolution and for divine right episcopacy and monarchy by the nonjurors. The Tory revival under Queen Anne refurbished the High Church Hooker, and during the Sacheverell case a Whig Hooker emerged...
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INTERPRETERS FOR THE DEAF GIVE JUSTICE A VOICE ; Colo. Language Services contracts sign experts
Newspaper article from: The Gazette; 12/14/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...juror, so I wouldn't know," he said. "But the process seems to go smoothly." Sign interpreters are about the only nonjurors allowed into the jury deliberation room. Foreign language interpreters, for example, aren't allowed because a juror must...
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England in the 1690s: Revolution, Religion and War
Magazine article from: Anglican and Episcopal History; 6/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...effective overview of the highly contested religious situation of the 1690s. It provides a balanced analysis of the concerns of nonjurors, dissenters, and latitudinarians, showing us how the people of England viewed their situation, and hence the book should...
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English Society, 1660-1832: Religion, Ideology and Politics during the Ancien Regime
Magazine article from: Anglican and Episcopal History; 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...he uses terms from it (such as anti-Catholicism. Arians, Deism, Dissenters, freethinkers, Jacobinism, Jacobitism. Nonjurors, and Old Corruption). And he treats many terms in their original sense rather than in their later sense (such as democracy...
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One, Catholic, and Apostolic: Samuel Seabury and the Early Episcopal Church
Magazine article from: Anglican Theological Review; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...willing to withstand severe criticism for the sake of his vision of the church. As a high churchman in the tradition of the nonjurors and the Caroline Divines, Seabury believed that a valid episcopacy and three-fold ministry was integral to American Anglicanism...
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Prosecutors challenge Malvo's insanity defense.(METROPOLITAN)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 12/12/2003; 700+ words
; ...selection five weeks ago. He had lived in Chesapeake for six months before the trial but now resides in nearby Suffolk. A nonjuror told the court about the discrepancy Wednesday night, and the judge decided to remove the juror yesterday, Mr. Cox said...
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nonjurors
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...In England, the original nonjurors included William Sancroft...the Episcopal clergy became nonjurors when their church was disestablished...of Presbyterianism. Many nonjurors were active in the rising...Bangorian Controversy , in which nonjuror William Law was prominent...
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Nonjurors
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Nonjurors. Members of the C of E who after 1688 scrupled to take the Oaths of Allegiance...bishops were secretly consecrated in 1694. By the end of the 18th cent. most of the Nonjurors had been absorbed into the Established Church.
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Nonjuror
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Nonjuror a member of the clergy who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary in 1689.
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Collier, Jeremy
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
...Jeremy (1650–1726), English Nonjuror . In 1696 he was outlawed for giving...consecrated as a ‘bishop of the Nonjurors’ and he joined in their attempt...responsible for the production of the Nonjurors' Communion Office of 1718.
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Brett, Thomas
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Brett, Thomas (1667–1744), Nonjuror . On the accession of George I (1714) he resigned his living; he was received as a Nonjuror by G. Hickes , after whose death he was consecrated bishop in 1716. He took part in the abortive...
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