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66 of the illutrious Peers who had ruin'd themelves by their Folly and Extravagance, and all the Lands got by inenible Degrees into other Hands.

Power of the Houe of Commons increas'd every Day. The Families of the ancient Peers were at lat extinct; and as Peers only are properly noble in England, there would be no uch thing in trict:nes of Law, as Nobility in that Iland, had not the Kings created new Barons from Time to Time, and preerv'd the Body of Peers, once a Terror to them, to oppoe them to the Commons ince become o formidable.

thee new Peers who compoe the higher Houe, receive nothing but their Titles from the King, and very few of them have Etates in thoe Places whence they take their Titles. One hall be Duke of D tho' he has not a Foot of Land in Dorethire; and another is Earl of a Village, tho' he carce knows where it is ituated. The Peers have Power, but 'tis only in the arliament Houe.