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 ¬When the above-mentioned foxes came to their holes, and found the trick that had been played upon them, they fell upon this notable contri- vance. — If pious A. possessed of land, had now given to clerical B. the use of it; such ttse could no longer have been available, because the use having, by the new law, become the land itself, clerical B. could not hold it ; to avoid this awkward consequence, the)' settled that the clerical fox, who was to enjoy the land, should go down one step in the alphabet and become C. and that pious A. should find some nominal B., or any son of a B., to give the use to, which of course made this B., or this son of a B., the legal proprietor, but who, it was set- tled in this court, was only to hold it to the use of the same fox, noiv clerical C. ¬When this most manifest and impudent shuffle was brought before the judges of Armata, it was of course expected that an instant end would have been put to it ; because the very object of the new law being that whoever had ¬the ¬