...Petitioners, &c." BUI of Rights. " AND whereas it hath been found by experience, that it is incon" sistent with the safety and welfare of this Protestant kingdom...Papist, the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, dp ' further pray that it may be enacted, that all and every person and ' persons that is,...

...is thereby become vacant." Next day it was resolved, " That it hath been found by experience to be inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this protestant kingdom to be governed by a popish prince." It is remarkable that this is the very principle of the exclusion-bill which had brought such odium...

...Commons further voted, " that it hath been found by experience to be inconsistent with the security and welfare of this Protestant kingdom to be governed by a popish prince." By this resolution, as far as the Commons were concerned, the son of James was excluded from the succession...

...abdicated the government, and the throne is thereby vacant." " That it lias been found, by experience, inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this protestant kingdom to be governed by a popish prince." These two declarations were immediately sent up to the lords. They excited there a violent storm; but...

...another respect, did they hand down to posterity ! " We have found by experience," say these worthies, " that it is inconsistent with the safety and welfare...prince, or by any king or queen marrying a Papist ; and therefore we resolve that every person or persons, that is, are, or shall be, reconciled to,...

...found by Experience, that it is inconsistent with the Safety and Welfaire of this Protestant Kingdome to be governed by a Popish Prince or by any King or Queene marrying a Papist, the said Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons doe further pray, that...

...in committee, voted, "That it hath been found, by experience, to be inconsistent with the safety und welfare of this Protestant kingdom to be governed by a popish prince" — a principle which was certainly held by the vast majority of the people of England and Scotland....

...the morrow the Commons, still in committee, voted, " That it hath been found, by experience, to be inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this Protestant kingdom to be governed by a popish prince." The Whigs, in their anxiety to settle the Protestant William upon the throne, were too much disposed...

...these authorities that the throne was vacant by the conduct of King James the Second ; that it was inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this Protestant kingdom to be governed by a Popish prince ; that the Prince and Princess of Orange should be King and Q,ueen during their lives and the life...

...commons further voted, " That it hath been found by experience to be inconsistent with the security and welfare of this protestant kingdom to be governed by a popish prince." By this last resolution, as far as the commons were concerned, the son of James was excluded from the...