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We hope that this ineſtimable Privilege is not wholly confined to the Male Line, but that we his Majeſty's faithful Female Subjects, may alſo ſhelter ourſelves under his moſt gracious Protection, our Condition being of all others in his Dominions the moſt deplorable, we being the leaſt able to help ourſelves, and the moſt expoſed to Oppreſſion.
Thiſ is certainly true, in every State of Life, but in none ſo notoriouſly, and without all Redreſs, as when we put ourſelves in a Condition of adding to his Majeſty's Subjects by becoming Wives, under which Character we humbly addreſs his moſt ſacred Majeſty, and the honourable Houſes of Parliament, for an Alteration or a Repeal of ſome Laws, which, as we conceive, put us in a worſe Condition than Slavery itſelf.
We are now apprehenſive of more frequent Oppreſſion from theſe Laws, as this is an Age in which the Foundation of all the noble Principles of Chriſtianity (which are our only Protection) are broken up, and Deiſm, that Underminer of all that is truly laudable, with its Legions of Immorality, Prophaneneſs, and conſummate Impudence are let in upon us.
