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empowered to grant fuch of the non-juring clergy as he 
thought fit, not above twelve, an allowance out of their 
ecclefiaftical benefices for their fubfiftence, not exceeding 
a. third part, (i W. Sc M. felf. i. c. 8.) Perfons refilling 
the oaths lhall incur, forfeit, and fufter, the penalties in- 
fti&ed on popilh recufants; and the court of exchequer 
may iffue out procefs againft: their lands. See. 7 & 8 
Will. III. c. 27. See the fiat. 2 Geo. I. c. 13. 
The non-jurors, or high-church men, were particularly 
diftinguiflied by the following principles: 1. They main¬ 
tained the dodlrine of palfive obedience. 2. That the 
hereditary fucceflion to the throne is of divine inftitution ; 
and, therefore, can never be interrupted, fufpended, or 
annulled, on any pretext. 3. That the church is l'ubjedt 
to the jurifdidtion, not of the civil magiftrate, but of 
God alone, particularly in matters of a religious nature. 
4. That, consequently, the bilhops depofed by king Wil¬ 
liam III. remained, notwithlianding their depolition, true 
bilhops to the day of their death ; and that thofe who 
were fubftituted in their places were the unjult pofl'efi’ors 
of other men’s property. 5. That thefe unjuft polfellbrs 
of ecclefiaftical dignities were rebels againft the ftate, as 
well as fchil'matics in the church ; and that all, therefore, 
who held communion with them, were alfo chargeable 
with rebellion and fchifm. And, 6. That this fchifm, 
which rends the church in pieces, is a molt heinous fin, 
whofe punilhment mult fall heavy on all thofe who did 
not return fincerely to the true church, from which they 
have departed. Chambers. 
It can fcarcely be faid that there are any non-jurors 
now in the kingdom ; and it is well known that all penal¬ 
ties have been removed both from Papifts and Protef- 
tants, formerly of that denomination, as well in Scotland 
as in England. The members of theepifcopal church of 
Scotland have long been denominated non-jurors; but 
perhaps they are now called fo improperly, as the ground 
of their difference from the eftablilhment is more on ac¬ 
count of ecclefiaftical than political principles. Ency. Brit. 
NON LI'QUET, [Lat. it does not appear.] In law', a 
verdidt given by a jury, when a matter is to be deferred 
to another day of trial. The fame phrafe was tiled among 
the Romans: after hearing a caufe, fuch of the judges as 
thought it not fufficiently clear to pronounce upon, call 
a ballot into the urn with the two letters N. L. for non 
liquet. 
NON-NAT'URALS, f. Thofe things which are not 
naturally, but by accident or abufe, the caufes of difeafes. 
Phyficians reckon thefe to be fix ; viz. air, meat and drink, 
fleep and watching, motion and reft, retention and excre¬ 
tion, and the paffions of the mind.—The fix non-naturals 
are fuch as, neither naturally conftitutive nor merely de- 
ltru clive, do prelerve or deltroy according unto circum- 
ftances. Brown. 
NON-OBSTAN'TE^tfr. [Latin.] Notwithlianding any 
thing to the contrary. A law-phrqfe. 
NON-OBSTAN'TE, f A licenfe from the king to do 
that which could not be lawfully done without it.—If in 
any one point, never fo Email, we may fet afide, or fuper- 
lede, the rule delivered down to us from the beginning 
with our on-ohftimtcs and notwithllandings. Biblioth. 
Bill. 
I alk no difpenfation now 
To falfify a tear, or figh, or vow ; 
I do not fue from thee to draw 
A non-oljlante on nature’s law. Donne's Poems. 
Non-objiante is a claufe frequent in ftatutes and letters 
patent; importing a licenfe from the king to do a thing, 
which at common law might be lawfully done ; but, being 
reftrained by adl of parliament, could not be done with¬ 
out fuch licenfe. Vaug-h. 347. Plowd. 501. But the doc¬ 
trine of non-obf antes, which fets the prerogative above 
the laws, was effectually demolilhed by the bill of rights 
at the revolution, and abdicated Weltminfter-hall when 
king James abdicated the kingdom. It is enadted by 
NON 
1 W. & M. 2 c. a. that no difpenfation, by non-obftante , of 
or to any ftatute, or any part thereof, lhall be* allowed, 
but that the fame lhall be held void and of none effedt, 
except a difpenfation be allowed in fuch ftatute. 
Non-obstantes, in the Romilh canon-law, make the 
third part of the provifions of the court of Rome, begin¬ 
ning with non-obf antibus, and comprifing abfolutions from 
cenfures, rehabilitations, and necelfary difpenfations for 
the enjoyment of benefices. None inferior to the pope 
can life the claufe non-obftante. 
NON-ORGAN'ICAL, adj. Having no organs ; deftitute 
of organs or inllruments of motion. 
NON-PAY'MENT, f. Default of payment.—An appa¬ 
ritor came to the church, and informed the parfon, that 
he mull pay the tenths to fuch a man; and the bilhop 
certified the ecclefiaftical court under his feal, on the non* 
payment of them, that he refufed to pay them. Ayliff'e. 
NON-PERFOR'MANCE, f. Negledl of what ' ought 
to be, or to have been, done.—A mere inclination to 
matters of duty, men reckon a willing of that thing; 
when they are jultly charged with an adtual non-per¬ 
formance of w'hat the law requires. South. 
NON-PLEV'IN, f. A law term; default in not re¬ 
plevying land in due time. 
NON-POVV'ER, /.’ Impotence. Chaucer. 
NON-PROFI'CIENCY, f. The negledl of improve¬ 
ment. Bailey. 
NON-PROFI'CIENT,yi One who has madenoprogrefs 
in the art or lludy in which he is engaged.—God hath in 
nature given every man inclination to feme one particular 
calling ; which if he follow', he excells ; if he crofs, he 
proves a non-prof cient. Bp. Hall's Holy Obferv. 
NON-PROS'. See Nolle Prosequi, p. 122. 
NON-REGARD'ANCE, f. The want of proper regard: 
Since you to non-regardance call my faith. 
Live you the marble-breafted tyrant Hill. Shakefpeare, 
NON-RES'IDENCE, f. Failure of refidence.—If the 
character of perlons chofen into the church had been 
regarded, there would be fewer complaints of non-reji- 
dcnce. Swift. 
NON-RES'IDENCY, f. Non-refidence.—Behold alfo 
there a lay non-ref dency of the rich, which, in times of 
peace, too much negledling their habitations, may l’eem 
to have provoked God to negledl them. Holyday. 
NON-RES'IDENT, f. One who negledls to live at the 
proper place.—As to non-ref dents, there are not ten cler¬ 
gymen in the kingdom who can be termed non-ref dents. 
Swift. 
NON-RES'IDENT, adj. Not refiding in the proper 
place.—Her houfehokl is her charge; her care to that 
makes her feldom non-refulent: Overbury's Char all. 
NON-RESIS' LANCE, f. The principle of not oppofing 
the king ; ready obedience to a iuperiour.—If the dodtor 
had pretended to have Hated the particular bounds and 
limits of non-ref (lance, he would have been much to 
blame. Sir Jofeph Jeltyll at Sacheverel's Trial. 
NON-RESiS'TANT, adj. Not refilling; unoppofing. 
—This is that CEdipus, whofe wifdom can reconcile in¬ 
continent oppolites, arid teach patfive obedience and 
non-ref ftant principles to defpife government, and to fiy 
in the face of fovereign authority. Arbutknot. 
NON-SA'NE, adj. [iionJanus, Lat.] Unfound.—Perfons 
of non-Jane memory are not totally prohibited either to 
convey or purchafe, but Jub modo only. Blachfoiw. 
NON-SEN'SITIVE, One that wants fenfe or percep¬ 
tion.—Whatfoever we preach of contentednefs in want, 
no precepts can fo gain upon nature as to make her a 
non-fenfitive. Feltham's Ilcf. 
NON-SOL'VENCY,/ Inability to pay.—Probably fome' 
of the purchafers may be content to live cheap in a worfe 
country, rather than be at the charge of exchange, and 
agencies, and perhaps of non-Jblvencics in abfence, if they 
let their lands too high. Swift's PropoJ'al for paying the. 
National Debt, 
NON- 
