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 this favours the doctrine of readmiion by a econd choice, I am not able to dicover. The tatute of 30 Ch. II. had enacted, That he who hould it in the Houe of Commons, without taking the oaths and ubcribing the tet, hould be diabled to it in the Houe during that Parliament, and a writ hould iue for the election of a new member, in place of the member o diabled, as if uch member had naturally died.

lat claue is apparently copied in the act of Anne, but with the common fate of imitators. In the act of Charles, the political death continued during the Parliament, in that of Anne it was hardly worth the while to kill the man whom the next breath was to revive. It is, however, apparent, that in the opinion of the Parliament, the dead-doing lines would have kept him motionles, if he had not been recovered by a kind exception. A eat ,