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A
HISTORY and DEFENCE
OF
Magna Charta.
CONTAINING
A COPY OF THE
Original Charter at large,
WITH AN
ENGLISH TRANSLATION;
The Manner of its being obtained from
KING JOHN,
With its Preservation and Final Establishment
in the Succeeding Reigns;
WITH AN
INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSE,
Containing a ſhort Account of the Riſe and Progreſs of National
Freedom, From the Invaſion of Cæſar to the preſent Times.
Alſo the Liberties which are confirmed by the
Bill of Rights, &c.
To which is added,
AN ESSAY ON PARLIAMENTS,
Deſcribing their
ORIGIN IN ENGLAND,
And the extraordinary Means by which they have been
lengthened from Half Yearly to Septennial ones.
DUBLIN:
Printed for JAMES WILLIAMS, at No. 5, in
Skinner-Row.M.DCC.LXIX.
