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Excerpt from A Defence of the Charter, and Municipal Rights of the City of London and the Rights of Other Municipal Cities and Towns of England: Directed to the Citizens of London
But after this we are very unfortunate, that whil¿: we enjoy a Prince that hath alfured us he will govern by Law, that no right or liber tys (hall be invaded: a Prince that wants no Power, that is not by unquefiionable right and law efiabhlhed upon him, any pretence fhould be found, from our unhappy divifions to make it feem convenient for maintaining the publick peace, that all Officers and Magil'rrates in Cor potations mull be made at the Courtiers nomi nation, and that too precariou¿y, and the Suc ccfiion fucb only as {hall be by them approved.
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