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the 6th of December, 1648, and the forcible exclusion of about 100 more, (39) by the fame unlawful power, on the following day, (preparatory to the illegal trial and murder of the King in 1648-9,) the Long-Parliament no longer represented the nation, but was merely the Representative of a most dangerous standing Army; for such the national Militia was then become; the several individuals thereof having, by a constant military Service for
