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 Ch. 8. Englihmen, to reverence the crown, and yet guard againt corrupt and ervile influence from thoe who are intruted with it's authority; to be loyal, yet free; obedient, and yet independent; and, above every thing, to hope that we may long, very long, continue to be governed by a overeign, who, in all thoe public acts that have peronally proceeded from himelf, hath manifeted the highet veneration for the free contitution of Britain; hath already in more than one intance remarkably trengthened it's outworks; and will therefore never harbour a thought, or adopt a peruaion, in any the remotet degree detrimental to public liberty.

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