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Show [122] eaufe the Inflance given by him of a Colony ereéied into a feparate Common Wealth plainly a pears by the Context to be by the Leave or Confent of the Parent State, and it does not appear that the other Cafes were not f0. Your Remark upon the Authority I bring to Ihew that the Colony, being feudatory, is under the Government of the King's Laws, is very fingular. You fuppofe it mull mean the King's Laws abfolulely, or as you explain it, not the Laws of Parliament. Do any or you remem- ber ever to have leen the Exprellion, tire King's Laws, meaning the King of England, ufed in any other Senfe than the Law: qf t/ae Realm 5' You fay I have not named the Authority. The Cafe I refer to is the King againfl Crowle, in the 2d.Vol Burrow's Reports, and for the Autho« rity, which you will find mentioned there, 1am ‘ notable to namea greater. I would pafs over in Silence your Attempt to fhew that Allegiance is due to the natural Pera fon and not to the Body Politick of the King, if 1 had not been well informed that the artificial Reafoning ofLord Chief Jufiiee Coke upon the Boil-tine of Allegiance, in the noted Cafe of Cal« vin, as you have recited it, had great Weight with fome ofthe Members of the Houfe. But have you recited this Cafe truly ? After all the Refinements on this Subject does it appear that they can amount to any 'l'hing more than that Allegiance is not due to the Politick Capacity only f' And is it not exprefly laid that the natural Pcrfon of theKing is ever accompanied with the Politicki . _ Capacity. [123] Capacity, and the Politick Capacity as it were appropriated to the Natural Capacity? Or have you any clear Idea of Allegiance to a King in his natural Capacity without any Relation to" his political Capacity? From this Authority mifunderfiood you infer that I am miflaken in fuppoling your Allegiance to be due to the Crown of England. Without any Refinements, it is plain that it was one Condition, on the Performance whereof the firlt Charter depended, that Allegiance Ihould be borne to King Charles his Heirs and Stretcflorr. Wherever therefore the Succef{ion to the Crown {hall go there Allegiance is to follow. The Condition in the fecond Charter is the fame, and this is enough for my Purpofe, which was to fhew that in whatever Pcrfon the Regal Authority [hall be, there your Allegiance is due. I wilh you had omitted all you have laid upon this Suhjefi, for neither the Reafoning of Lord Coke, nor the Declarations of the judges, in any Meafure tend to the Purpofe for which you produce them. Your Alliertion that Parliament, in regulating the Filhery, had nothing in View but to prevent a Monopoly of the Sea, and claimed noAuthority over the Plantations or Lands in America, has only your ownAnthority to fupport it. It appears from theDehates in Parliament, that it was the Refufal of the Patentees, to fiter Filh to be dried upon the Land within their Patent, by any Perlim who had not Licence from them, which was complained of as a Grievance, and the [dill was brought in to remove this Grievance : '1 he King might very well rcfufe his Alli‘nt, not heQ2 caufe |