than callid Litil Brytayne; and grauntyd therfor to make his brother Constantine their Kyng. And so he was made Kyng heere, and raynyd many yers, and his children after hym, off which grete Arthure was one of their yssue. But blessid be God, this lond ys ruled under a better lawe, and therfor the people therof be not in such penurye, nor therby hurt in their persons, but thay be wealthye and have al thyngs necessarye to the sustenaunce of nature. Wherfor thay be myghty, and able to resyste the adversariis of the realme, and to bett other realmes, that do or will do them wrong. Loo this is the frute of Jus Politicum & Regale, under which we lyve. Sumwhat now I have schewyd you of the frutys of both lawys, Ut ex fructibus corum cognoscatis eos, &c[1].”
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- ↑ I have selected this chapter, as it exhibits a curious picture of a country, which has lately been so much the object of men’s thoughts, and which every friend to the welfare of mankind, and the peace and true interest and happiness of England, must wish blotted from the map of the world.
When we reflect on the pernicious principles which have been made the basis of all their proceedings, and that their successive blood-stained rulers, not contented with desolating France by anarchy, depredation, and every species of sanguinary cruelty, have for these five years past en-
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