Secondly, to repeal or contract the late Act of Toleration is not the way for this so much wished-for happiness; to have laws revived that should set one party a plundering, Excommunicating and unchurching another, that should renew the oppressions and devastations of late reigns, this will not by any means contribute to this Peace, which all good men desire.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
And so straightforward was the man's testimony, and so well-known was he in Jerusalem, that instead of denying the miracle, they adopted the easier course of Excommunicating him for acknowledging Jesus as the Christ.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
Rinuccini, after a considerable delay in Paris, whence he wrote many letters to Rome expressing his views with great frankness upon the Queen of England and her advisers, pushed on to Ireland, where, far from making peace with Ormonde or with any one else, he set everybody by the ears-not a difficult task, it is true, in that island-and ended by Excommunicating most of the Confederate Catholics themselves.
"Henrietta Maria"
Henrietta Haynes