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 own doublet,) as “in the year 1650,” to which this learned writer has referred us; since the authority of the nominal Legislature in 1650 was entirely illegal, as well as that in 1653, both of them having been set up and maintained by the same unconstitutional arbitrary power; and both of them totally void of the indispensable Representation of the people: for though the wretched remains of the Long-Parliament in 1650 (being about 80 Representatives or Members, instead of 513 that had been elected (52) at the beginning of that Par-