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 pretended Legislative Power besides Parliaments in those times, which could make Laws to stand, till succeeding Parliaments should null them.

3. These Commissioners had seen such Elective Satisfactions (after solemn debates had upon them, all parties against them being heard) allowed of, long before they received the said Orders in behalf of mee.

Lastly, to speak strictly and truly, few Lands have been set out either to Adventurer or Souldier, more by Lot, or lesse by Election than those I hold have been; the difference between mine and most other mens Satisfactions lying in words and phrases only.

Wherefore (I say) the Commissioners receiving Special Orders, for doing most righteous and equitable things, contrary to no known Law, and agreeable to former frequent practices, in lesse just and vaster matters, and withall consonant to their general Commission; and all this at a time when no other way was practiceable, the same for that reason being alwaies used, afterwards in future cases. The Commissioners (I say) upon these