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Show WI!"(043' [ 99 ] [98} natural liege Sovereign."--IF then theHnmage )reme Authority of Parliament "to all luteuts and Allegiance is not to the Jody pohuck of the King. then it is not to him ..s the Head or any Part of~ that Legtflative Authority. which your Excellency rays " is equally extenliw: with the Authority of the Crown throughout every Part of the Dominion ;" and your Excelieneyk Oblervations thereupon multifiail. The lame judges mention the Allegiance of a thieé‘t to andl'urpol‘es as fully as ifany of the Royal Ma- the Kings of England who is out or the lieaeh nors, Sec. within the Realm had been Granted to them upon the like Tenure." We apprehend and Extent ol'the Laws of England ; which is perfectly reconciltahle with the Principles of our Anceflors quoted before from your Excelleney's been the Care of the Colony but for the Compac‘l; with the King in the Charter. Your Excellency fays, that "Pcrlbns thus hold- ing mm'c'r Ilse Crown of England remain or ‘ch(some Suhjeéts of England;" by. which we lunpole your Excellency to mean, {abject to the Sn- with Submillion, your Excellency is Millakcn in tunneling that our Allegiance is due to the Crown Hiflory, but upon your Excellency's l'rinciples‘ Every Man {wears Allegiance for appesrs to us to he an tl\bllll‘kllly. The Judges, {peaking of a Stll'j'.&. lay, " although his Birth of England. himlelf to his own King in his Natural l'erfon. " Every Subject is prelumed by Law to be Sworn to the King, which is to his Natural Perfon," fays Lord Coke. Rap. on Ctr/vim Cat/c. "The Allegiance is due to his Natural Body." And he lays " in the Reign of Edward 11. tht'Spcntcers, the Father and the Son, to cover the Trealbn hatched in their Hearts, invented this dam-t mhle and damned Opinion. that Homage and Oath of Allegiance was more by Realon of the was out of. the Bounds of the Kingdom of England, and out 0ch End; and Evie/1! of tin,Lzzw: of Eng/and, yet if it were veil/ii»: Ilia fl/Icgiwztie of [lie King of Eng/mil, Sec. Nor- mandy, Amuiiain, Galcoign, and other Places within the Limits of France. and conf'equeutly out of the Realm or Bounds of the Kingdom of England, were in Sul‘jtt‘lion to the Kings of England. And the judges lily, " Rex 3! Reg- mzm he not lo Relatives, as a King can he King King's Crown. that is of his politielt Capacity. than by Realou of the l'eil‘on of the King; but of one Kingdom, which clearly holdeth not upon which Opinion they llll'it‘l'tl exccrahlc and but that hi: Kingly Power extending to divers (letellahle Co 1L quents." Nations and Kingdoms, all owe him equal Sub. jet‘lion and are equally hero to the Benefit ol' his Protet‘lion, and al-tho' he is (0 {AOV‘Tll them i." l/Jeir ally/31nd} Lawt, yet any one of the People, The Jud‘tlcs of Eng- land. all but one, in the Cale of the Union between Scotland and England, tlt elated that " Allegiance l‘ollotteth the namtal Pci'lltn not the POlltiCk :" and " to prove the Allegiance to be tied to the Body natural of the King and not to the Body politick, the Lord Coke cited the l'lttalcs of divcrle Statutes, mentioning our 1111/1"! coming into the other is to'hat'e the ‘liment oi the laws u'lierefiit-vcr he come-tin" So they are not to be deemed Aliens, as your ExcellenN 2 ('57 |