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64 authority of Kings and of the People? in the violent hocks which the diviions between Kings and the Nobles gave to empires, the chains of Nations were more or les heavy. Liberty, in England, prung from the quarrels of Tyrants. The Barons forc'd King John and King Henry the third, to grant the famous Magna Charta, the chief deign of which was indeed to make Kings dependant on the Lords, but then the ret of the nation were a little favour'd in it, in order that they might join, on proper occaions, with their pretended Maters. This great Charter which is conider'd as the acred origin of the Englih Liberties, hews in it elf how little Liberty was known.

Title alone proves, that the King thought he had a jut right to be abolute; and that the Barons, and even the Clergy forc'd him to give up the pretended right, for no other reaon but becaue they were the mot powerful.

begins in this tile, We grant, of our own free will, the lowing