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 with the form, but denied the reality, for there was one man excepted from their choice.

character of the man thus fatally excepted, I have no purpoe to delineate. Lampoon itelf would didain to peak ill of him of whom no man peaks well. It is ufficient that he is expelled the Houe of Commons, and confined in jail as being legally convicted of edition and impiety.

this man cannot be appointed one of the guardians and counellors of the church and tate, is a grievance not to be endured. Every lover of liberty tands doubtful of the fate of poterity, becaue the chief county in England cannot take its repreentative from a jail.