LONDON:

PRINTED FOR E. AND R. BROOKE, BELL-YARDĄ

TEMPLE-BAR.

MDCCXCII.

TO THE

RIGHT HONOURABLE

LORD

KE N Y ON,

LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF HIS MAJESTY'S COURT OF
KING'S BENCH, &c. &c.

AT a time when abilities and talents are most shamefully prostituted to the execrable purposes of decrying fubordination to civil power, and enervating the arm of lawful government, my grateful boast is the permiffion to dedicate to your Lordship these humble efforts to explain the nature and reafons of our conftitution and government to the ignorant, and to enforce their energy and obligations against the malevolent. Your exemplary leffons upon the perfections of our conftitution and government have taught the nation to admire your ability,

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ability, and exult in your difpofition

to preserve them in full purity and

vigor. And I feel the fatisfactory

conviction of bearing a truly patriotic

attachment to our constitution, whilst

I am permitted to have the honor of

subscribing myself, with respect and

efteem,

MY LORD,

YOUR LORDSHIP'S

DEVOTED HUMBLE SERVANT,

FRANCIS PLOWDEN.

CONTENTS,