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Rh 18th chap. concerning the ſtatutes of England.

“ if theſe ſtatutes fall ſhort of their intended efficacy, though deviled with ſuch great ſolemnity and wiſdom of parliament; they may very quickly be reformed, but not without the aſſent of the commons and peers of the realm, which was their ſource from the beginning.”

I only deſire that the word Concito may be taken notice of, which is the quickeſt word that can be imagined, and ſhews that our parliaments were always at hand; and the whole paſſage ſhews for what wiſe and juſt reaſons they were ſo.

next paſſage is chap. xliii. fol. 129. a. “Neither do the laws of England allow in ,