Papists Sentence Examples

Michel de l'HOpital, the chancellor, who opened the assembly, was an advocate of toleration; he deprecated the abusive use of the terms " Lutherans," " Papists " and " Huguenots," and advocated deferring all action until a council should have been called.

Like the mass of the nation, he grew more Protestant as time wore on; he was readier to persecute Papists than Puritans; he had no love for ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and he warmly remonstrated with Whitgift over his persecuting Articles of 1583.

He was always suspected of being a Roman Catholic, and invariably treated Jacobites and Papists better than Dissenters in the Athenae, but he died in communion with the Church of England.

Donne is believed to have had a considerable share in writing the pamphlets against the papists which Morton issued between 1604 and 1607.

In 1708 Swift declared that the Papists were politically as inconsiderable as the women and children.

Church Papists - paperback A study of clerical reaction to the sizeable number of Catholics who outwardly conformed to Protestantism in late 16c England.

The indictment charged Northumberland with endeavoring to head the English papists and procure them toleration.

Many foreigners were accused, Dutch Protestants as well as French papists, showing there is nothing new about a culture of blame.

An Ordinance for the further and better regulating the Sequestrations of Papists and Delinquents Estates, was this Day read the Third time.

When the Papists denied the use of the scripture in the vulgar tongue, oh !