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 unlawful authority that Had been usurped by the King, Privy-Council, and Star-Chamber.

This “due Process of the Law” therefore, can be no otherwise than by a legal Jury of 12 credible men, (64) who are Neighbours to the Fact, and unexceptionable to the parties concerned, according to the ancient Custom or Law of the Land. (65) And that the same is also a fundamental and essential Right of the Subject, every man, who pretends to doubt of it, may be informed by the feelings of his own breast,