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124, and dependent, I ſhall prove by the authority of two Kings, who very well knew how that matter ſtood. It is a ſolemn covenant of their’s, which becauſe it is ſhort, I will here tranſcribe. “They both of them enter a ſaving for the fidelity they owe to their ſubjects, ſo long as their ſubjects ſhall keep their fidelity to them.” Here we have that expreſſed which was ever implied: for whether the Quamdiu, eouſque, quouſque, uſquequo, be in or out, it matters not. At K. ’s firſt parliament at Oxford, he made them a charter, which he promiſed