Hearne left all his manuscripts and books with manuscript notes to Mr. William Bedford, son of the nonjuring bishop, Hilkiah Bedford, whose widow sold them to Dr.
Richard Rawlinson, the nonjuring bishop, who was himself an ardent collector.
The event of College interest was the fate of the nonjuring Fellows.
At St. John's twenty Fellows and eight scholars took up the nonjuring position.
The episcopal seal of the nonjuring bishops was a shepherd with a sheep upon his shoulders.
John Lindsay, the translator of Mason's Vindication of the Church of England, for many years officiated as minister of a nonjuring congregation in Trinity Chapel, Aldersgate Street, and is said to have been their last minister.
The nonjuring clergyman was a pensive and interesting old man, with much of the air of a sufferer for conscience' sake.
We saw in one of its streets a remarkable proof of liberal toleration; a nonjuring clergyman, strutting about in his canonicals, with a jolly countenance and a round belly, like a well-fed monk.
He was a bishop of the nonjuring communion, and wrote a book upon the subject[955].
The nonjuring clergy were associated with the émigrés in the public mind as enemies and conspirators who were the more dangerous because they remained at home.
The First had left nonjuring priests with a pension, and the use of parish churches where successors had not been appointed.
The nonjuring clergy came to be regarded as traitors and rebels, and the mob would not suffer them to celebrate mass in the only church that remained to them at Paris.
Nonjuring bishops were scarce in France; but Lescure contrived to supply the need of the moment.
Therefore, too, they clung to the nonjuring clergy.
In that sanguinary chronicle of ruthless savagery there was perhaps no more melancholy episode than the misfortunes of the nonjuring divine of Fennel Street, who lost three of his sons in the Pretender’s cause.
There are several pictures of clergymen at Flaxley, which have always been believed to be portraits of Mrs. Boevey's nonjuring friends.
Sclater was a nonjuring clergyman; consequently he could not accept preferment in the Anglican Church, which involved the taking the oath of allegiance.
And the good old nonjuring dean flattered himself with a conversion which in truth was owing to a much gentler and fairer persuader.
He founded a Nonjuring church, of which he was regarded as the bishop.
The last is a member of the Nonjuring church, I believe, Dr.
Deacon had been concerned in the former rebellion, and in his quality of a Nonjuring priest had assisted at the dying moments of the Reverend William Paul and Justice Hall, who were executed in 1716.
Still, theNonjuring priest could not be wholly disguised.
It is true that for several weeks the government had been aware that the West was agitated and that Rouërie was probably conspiring among the Royalists and nonjuring priests, but they did not appreciate the imminence of the danger.
Many of my readers will be surprized when I mention, that Johnson assured me he had never in his life been in a nonjuring meeting-house[887].
Nay, the resistance which Sancroft and the other nonjuring Bishops offered to arbitrary power, while they continued to hold the doctrine of non-resistance, is the most decisive proof that they were incapable of reasoning.
Besides this, the band also works by day in the streets, lashes the women, enters the churches saber in hand, and drives the nonjuring priest from the altar.
This is the penalty already inflicted on the nonjuring bishop who persists in considering himself a bishop, who ordains priests and who issues a pastoral letter.
The municipality of Cahors shuts up particular churches and orders the nonjuring ecclesiastics to leave the town in twenty-four hours.
In effect, in Dordogne,[3369] under the pretext of driving awaynonjuring priests, frequently mobs gather to pillage and rob whatever comes in their way.
The National Guards of the district purposely expel all nonjuring priests, who have not been replaced, under the pretext of the trouble they would not fail to cause at Easter.
Elsewhere are administrative bodies which, the moment the Assembly decrees relief of consciences and the freedom of nonjuring priests, order the latter out of their homes within 24 hours.
Here, a nonjuring priest having had the boldness to minister to a sick person, the house which he has just entered is taken by assault, and the door and windows of a house occupied by another priest are smashed.
Such is soon to be the penalty inflicted on the nonjuring curé who presumes to hear confession or officiate at a mass.
The nonjuring prelates, in 1693, consecrated him Bishop of Thetford.
The nonjuringclergyman was a pensive and interesting old man, with much the air of a sufferer for conscience' sake.
When the intelligence of the fall of Barcelona arrived, all the treason taverns were in a ferment with nonjuring priests laughing, talking loud, and shaking each other by the hand.
They condemned the proceedings of the three nonjuring divines, as in form irregular and in substance impious.
Jeremy Collier and two other nonjuring divines of less celebrity, named Cook and Snatt, had attended the prisoners in Newgate, and were in the cart under the gallows.
In the Nairne Papers is a letter in which the nonjuring bishops are ordered to send a Protestant divine to Saint Germains.
Indeed the nonjuringclergy were at least as much sneered at and as much railed at in his palace as in his nephew's.
His nonjuring friends formed a plan for bringing Sancroft to visit the Tower, in the hope, doubtless, that the exhortations of so great a prelate and so great a saint would confirm the wavering virtue of the prisoner.
But his natural courage was kept up by spiritual stimulants which the nonjuring divines well understood how to administer.
In this resolution he was encouraged by the nonjuring divines who attended him in his cell.
They made him pledge his word that he would entrust the whole ecclesiastical administration to the nonjuring bishops.
The nonjuring bishops had, during the year which followed their deprivation, continued to reside in the official mansions which had once been their own.
They had, after sentence had been passed on them, shown at first some symptoms of weakness; but their courage had been fortified by the exhortations of nonjuring divines who had been admitted to the prison.
Yet the real interest of the Nonjuring schism was political rather than religious; and its roots go out to vital events of the past.
John Hutton informed a friend that he was not less dangerous than Spinoza; and the opinion found an echo from the nonjuring sect.
III The Nonjuring schism was by no means the only difficulty which the Church of England had to confront in these troubled years.
So far from agreeing with Nelson in his Nonjuring sentiments, the prospect of the constitutional change had kindled in him enthusiastic expectations.
His younger acquaintances in the Nonjuring body, however sincere and generous in temperament, were men of a different order.
One other of Nelson's nonjuring friends must be mentioned.
The nonjuring bishops, while remaining perfectly faithful to their principles, were willing to make large concessions in points which involved no departure from what they considered to be essential truths.
Without any dishonour to Nonjuring principles, and without passing any judgment upon the grounds of their separation, it must be acknowledged that those of them who renounced the communion of the English Church accepted a sectarian position.
In 1712 George Hickes was the only survivor of the nonjuring bishops, and in the next year Collier was consecrated.
The controversy that ensued made a split in the nonjuring communion.
For particulars of Collier's history as a nonjuring bishop, see Thomas Lathbury, A History of the Nonjurors .
The country churches, closed by order of the National Assembly, were burst open by axes, the nonjuring priests returned to them, urged by the fanaticism of the people.
You have proposed to you violent remedies for the evils which anger can only envenom; it is a sentence of starvation which is demanded of you against our nonjuring brethren.
The nonjuring priests were suspended from the celebration of the holy mysteries in the churches of Caen until the decision of the National Assembly.
Fulminating bulls were in circulation by the hands of nonjuring priests, cast at the heads of the population, and only stopping at the foot of the throne.
Let us suppress all salary from the national treasury to the nonjuring priests.
The nonjuring priests had assumed the character of victims, and the interest of a portion of the people, especially in the country, attached to them.
Next day the Girondists called upon the king to sanction the decree against the nonjuring priests.
They drew up an address to the king, entreating him to refuse his sanction to the decree against the nonjuring priests.
In vain did Dumouriez represent to him that by refusing legal measures against the nonjuring priests he exposed the priests to massacre, and thus made himself responsible for all the blood that might be shed.
A letter from the minister of the interior came to authorise the nonjuring priests to celebrate the holy sacrifice in the churches where they had previously done duty.
But this permission is forbidden to nonjuring priests suspected of revolt.
At Caen blood had even flowed in the very cathedral, where the nonjuring priest disputed the altar with the conforming pastor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nonjuring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
