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Show [ 160 ] {161] renewal of their par/zammfary Ream/E71. tetra/2, as being neceflhry for the maintenance ofpublic virtue. Thus the third Example, given by this learned gentleman, aiitll/;/5./m1, Luv... RV‘ for taxing; lentils." w.ill()‘t.l Y Thus adds, in the next paragraph, " Now, for as much" (lays he) " as divers Laws and Statutes have been " cnaéled and provided for thefe ends aforefitid, and ‘ that divers mifehiefs in particular, and divers griel vances in general, concerning the honour and lhfety or their mulg) " to call a 21/7" I‘M/LINUX! [1/ rrwrvyenr_-" try, it i. certain that nmny tfthem would ntver hate L'lllL‘tl a l'ur'iiulntnt {it till, liild they not been " c." " ":5" by neceflity and tltz: circumilunces 05th: times. wit. ‘ of the King, the State, and defence of the King‘ dome, and of the Church of England, might be prevented, a): [er/lrfill Law was made, 21mm 36 lfldw.IlI. e. 10. which, biz/g applied to 2/2: fit/'4' In: l‘y nuthority conlrl :1 repz'cii‘nmtive in one 1': rlinn en: tile: l.i;. {int 111 the mar! ('mJ/u/ 1512275 . , ‘5. :Il.cu'.t in' .11, below." any law; v. J {Ililti‘f fur lengtiuning the killl'tllloll oi Parliaments? 15 and", if Lit" ‘ (Kid " 0..5 [Arm/t :t l'arli;t;zient ‘ :innnnlly. 7» . [Writs a/‘Purlz'm/mrl, doth, in a few and eflefillal K (‘ (I by whztt authority C(llllLl the l‘nrlitnnt-nt be convened tit words, let down the true fubjeet of a Parliament in thele words: For 1/13 maintenance cf 1/12 fair! artir/er afidflalwwfland rainy} of diver: "Ii/Hard} (171;! grit- rmmrer, rte/21H; liar/y Zia/2,0511, A PARLIAMENT SHALL BE notnxm EVL‘RY YEAR, as another time was ‘ ordained by a ltatute." Which Statute, here referred to, was made in the 4th year ofthe fame reign, cap 14. (K all, under fuel) it Cll'ClllilllilnL'L', leein'r; the. :1 mm: 1"»: mfg/[m ta/f/ excludes the ideaofa prerogxtion .‘i'em ye 1 to year? However, the learned Commentator liirnli:lf very jultly obferves, in It preceding page, (150,) cencerning " the manner and time of nlli‘mbling " that the " Parliament is regularly to be fummoned by t:' " King's U'riz er Letter, ill‘eetl cnt ol'L‘huneery." " Item, it is accorded, that :1 Parliament {hall be hol- it is well known that thele \‘Jrixu are not :uldreliiui to " den EVERY YEAR ONCE, (1711/7/10)? often if 72m! Av." ButSir William Blackllone {uppofes that the King never the knights, citizens, and burg-m, (:Jei‘ted for unyI/Qr- was " obliged, by thefe Statutes, to call a new Parlia- " ment rwryymr; but only to permit a Parliament to " fit annually for tl ,_. redrelé of grievances, and dif" patch of bufinefs, if med ée." ( 1 Com. c. 2, p-Ilsr) us too true, indeed that our "r ' did not think themfelves' " oé/i‘gzd, Syn ii:ifeliri:§::t ::i: (as they ought in conlcience to have been, for the {afety of mxr Pm linment, but to the SD. pit/3‘ alarm, to em; I; (711.1:‘vixr. Cc to [)3 Hitch], for, \vln n tlre {hi 1 Ads t mettle, {uch an abfiirdity in polling. hm! never been coneeivul in England, as that 01" entruliingj the [Glyn-flu/mz'm of the people, {or a mm: (franc, (at; ' (mg) to the pmlhns elcttedl UH illL' emitmry, \. the lmlinel's of each Sefiions wits lllrlllttwl, the l‘.1,..., ment, etieourfe, was at an end ; and mart-im- ln , Colt; did noti'penl; in vain, wlzr. 111;: ::r‘:x'"l ‘ (,4 |