having refused to take the oath to the [Civil] Constitution of the Clergy enacted by the Assemblée Nationale.” He then served as chaplain to the Bernardine nuns of the Abbaye-Blanche at Mortain, but on 6

without considering the great disparity of the two countries in every respect.” On these grounds, Cartwright, though an Anglican, opposed the exclusive privileges given to the Anglican clergy in the

“natural” leaders, the seigneurs and clergy. Accordingly, Carleton went out of his way to conciliate the former, proposing that they be made eligible for

Vondenvelden to the prejudices of the Canadians or opposition from the merchants, seigneurs, and clergy. At bottom, “the French Canadians are like the rest of the world, fond of getting money with as

. Although pleading benefit of clergy had previously resulted in lighter sentences for those convicted of capital crimes, an act of 1792 had removed theft and burglary from the list of clergiable offences. For

priests in the colony; unfortunately, he never received the clergy he needed. The low point in his career came in 1801, when an officer at Fort George accused him of attempting to “violate his wife by force

prince’s departure the affair subsided, but it showed how tenuous was the footing of the Catholic clergy – in Newfoundland. Nevertheless, Burke’s

Fox Hill cemetery was also situated on land Burbidge had presented. His letters to the society were a constant call for greater effort and diligence on the part of the Anglican clergy, who he felt were

Simcoe were complicated by the controversy surrounding the Marriage Act of 1793, a measure which confined the solemnization of marriages to clergy of the Church of England and justices of the

throats cut, and perhaps would readily assist in doing it.” The congressional commissioners attempted to rectify matters by cultivating the good will of the nobility and clergy and by establishing a

been preaching on the “Duty of Obedience to the higher Powers,” a stand taken by most of his fellow Anglican clergy. Although his lack of sympathy with those opposing the Stamp Act marked him as a tory

Talbot* of Port Talbot, and with various government officials. His troubles with his neighbours stemmed largely from his failure to build a church on a clergy reserve lot, something he had agreed to do

waves from the French revolution were reaching those distant islands, Allain refused to take the oath to the new Civil Constitution of the Clergy, as did his young colleague François

only exceptions to Ainslie’s general condemnation of the ungrateful Canadians were the “nobles” and the clergy, both royalist, and the militia within the city, whose courage during the repulse of Richard

] (London), 1748–49, 46. J. B. Bell, “Anglican clergy in colonial America ordained by bishops of London,” American Antiquarian Soc., Proc. (Worcester, Mass.), 83 (1973), 159. G.B., WO, Army

threatened established social relations. Wise spoke for himself in court and was the first person on the island to successfully plead the benefit of clergy, a legal mechanism that allowed first-time offenders

colleagues Chabrand Delisle and De Montmollin, determined it to reverse its post-conquest proselytist policy. Beginning in the 1790s, it would, with a British clergy, concentrate its attentions on the colony’s

to pay the troops and officials, to build fortifications and subsidize the clergy, for “presents” to the Indians, social welfare, and a myriad of things. The greater part of it ended up in the pockets

usual studied care, “could say that while he was in Canada there were no glorious actions for France in which he did not have a large part.” The general assembly of the clergy of France, however, came to

bishopric of Nova Scotia. Joseph’s acquaintance with the Church of England clergy in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Cape Breton, many of whom were New Englanders and his control of the official channels of