Surely he did not mean to deny that faculty to many of their writers; to Hickes, Brett, and other eminent divines of that persuasion; and did not recollect that the seven Bishops, so justly celebrated for their magnanimous resistance of arbitrary power, were yet Nonjurors to the new Government.

Macaulay's England, ed. 1874, v. 81. See ante, ii. 321, for Johnson's estimate of the Nonjurors, and i. 429 for his Jacobitism.

When he returned, he became zealous for episcopacy and monarchy; and at the Revolution adhered not only to the Nonjurors, but to those who refused to communicate with the Church of England, or to be present at any worship where the usurper was mentioned as king.

"The Careless Husband" even Pope had praised; "The Nonjuror," an adaptation of Molière's "Tartuffe," was one of the most successful comedies of the period.

I afterwards entered a By Coffee-house that stood at the upper end of a narrow Lane, where I met with a Nonjuror, engaged very warmly with a Laceman who was the great Support of a neighbouring Conventicle.

His model of an English member of parliament votes in opposition, as his Good Parson is a nonjuror, and the Fox in the fable of Old Chaucer is translated into a puritan.

Much theological learning and controversial skill, with the old traditions of Anglican divinity, had been drawn aside from the highway of the Establishment into the secluded byways of the Nonjurors.

BRETT, Colonel, i. 174, n. 2. BRETT, Mrs., i. 166, n. 4. BRETT, Miss, i. 174, n. 2. BRETT, Rev. Dr. Thomas, the nonjuror, iv.

298-9; Johnson and the nonjurors, iv.

KEN, Bishop, connected by marriage with Isaac Walton, ii. 364, n. 1; a nonjuror, iv. 286, n. 3; rule about sleep, iii. 169, n. 1. KENNEDY, Rev. Dr., Complete System of Astronomical Chronology, i. 366.

LESLIE, Charles, the nonjuror, iv. 286, n. 3. LESLIE, C. R., anecdote of the Countess of Corke, iv. 108, n. 4. LESLIE, Professor, of Aberdeen, v. 92.

NONJURORS, Archibald Campbell, v. 357; Cibber's Nonjuror, applicable to them, ii. 321; comparative criminality in taking and refusing the oaths, ii.

NONJURORS, Archibald Campbell, v. 357; Cibber's Nonjuror, applicable to them, ii. 321; comparative criminality in taking and refusing the oaths, ii.

I afterwards entered a By Coffee-house that stood at the upper end of a narrow Lane, where I met with a Nonjuror, engaged very warmly with a Laceman who was the great Support of a neighbouring Conventicle.

He cannot believe that the Nonjurors are so quiet for nothing, they must certainly be forming some plot for the establishment of Popery; he does not think the present oaths sufficiently binding, and wishes that some better security could be found for the succession of Hanover.

[Footnote 1: A nonjuror, who travelled with Mr. George Pitt.

However, it is some mortification to me, when I see an avowed nonjuror contribute more to the confounding of Popery, than could ever be done by a hundred thousand such Introductions as this.

[Footnote 58: Charles Lesley, or Leslie, the celebrated nonjuror.

Thirdly, I could heartily wish his Lordship would not undertake to charge the opinions of one or two, and those probably nonjurors, upon the whole body of the nation that differs from him.

NONJURORS, a name given to that section of the Episcopal party in England who, having sworn fealty to James II., refused to take the oath of allegiance to William III., six of whom among the bishops for their obstinacy were deprived of their sees.