Brewer's: Nonjurors

Those clergymen who refused to take the oath of allegiance to the new government after the Revolution. They were Archbishop Sancroft with eight other bishops, and four hundred clergymen, all of whom were ejected from their livings. (1691.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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