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HAT mixture in the Englih government, that harmony between King, Lords and Commons, did not always ubit. England was enlav'd for a long eries of years by the Romans, the Saxons, the Danes, and the French ucceively. William the conqueror particularly rul'd them with a rod of iron. He dipos'd as abolutely of the lives and fortunes of his conquer'd ubjects as an eatern Monarch; and forbid, upon pain of death, the Englih both fire or candle in their houes after eight a clock; whether he did this to prevent their