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to the lords and biſhops, and the third to the commons.” Now if we are at a loſs or uncertainty about our parliaments, we are at a loſs or uncertainty about two thirds of our government.
But I will ſay no more upon this head, intending to ſhew in the following chapters, how the matter of parliaments ſtood in former ages.
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