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Rh French kalends of May lie thus in, the famous dean of St. Paul’s in K. ’s time, whoſe hiſtory was thought ſo authentic, that the Engliſh parliament, in  the firſt’s time, relied upon his teſtimony, amongſt ſome others, in no leſs a point than the claim of the King of England to the ſupreme dominion of the realm of Scotland.

render the ſenſe of it into Engliſh as near as I can; however, the Latin lies before every man to tranſlate it for himſelf. “From hence-forward the French Kings degenerating from the valour and learning which they uſed to have, the power of the kingdom was adminiſtered by the maſters of the palace, the Kings themſelves being upon the matter only titular; whoſe cuſtom it was to come to the crown indeed; according to their deſcent, and neither