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Robert Raymond, 1st Baron Raymond (1673 - 1733) was a British judge. In 1725 he was invested as Privy Counsellor. This article concerns the British Sovereigns Privy Council. ...
Raymond, a Tory, was appointed as Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench on March 2, 1725 until his death. In the trial of Deist Thomas Woolston in 1729 Raymond said: This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Deism is a religious movement that originated in 17th and 18th century Europe and North America and continues in a mostly similar form today. ...
Thomas Woolston (1669 - January 21, 1731), English deist, born at Northampton in 1669, the son of a reputable tradesman, entered Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, in 1685, studied theology, took orders and was made a fellow of his college. ...
- Christianity in general is Parcel of the Common Law of England, and therefore to be protected by it; now whatever strikes at the Root of Christianity, tends manifestly to a Dissolution of the Civil Government...so that to say, an Attempt to subvert the establish'd Religion is not punishable by those Laws upon which it is establish'd, is an Absurdity. (John Fitz-Gibbons, The Reports of Several Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench (London, 1732), pp. 65-66.)
In the House of Lords he tried to stop the House of Commons abandoning Law French and replacing it with English. To Raymond, ending the traditional language might lead to other 'modernisations' such as Welsh for courts in Wales. However his opposition failed and in 1733 the courts were anglicised. Law French is an archaic language based on Norman and Anglo-Norman. ...
The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. ...
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