retractation
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Charterhouse monks: their retractation of their Supremacy oath, 327; executed for treason, 328.
From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by Froude, J.A.
Cardinal Guidi has received the most peremptory orders from the Pope to make a formal retractation of his speech in Council.
From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von
Nor would the government fulfil its engagement to force the constitutional bishops to a retractation.
From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, April 1865 by Various
The consistory accepted Rhode's retractation and annulled Hossbach's call.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.
Although Du Pin consented to a retractation, the book was suppressed in 1693; he was, however, allowed again to continue it on changing its title by substituting nouvelle for universelle.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various
