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the Contract betwixt the Governours, & Govern'd, the powr of the magistrate, & obedience of the people, the measure of power belonging to the great Lordship of the Realm, & the lesser Lordships have all their foundation in the two following observations;

1st as the Conquerors were the masters of the Country, no body could have posession of any peice of Land, without the owners consent, & under the terms he pleas'd to fix; hence arose a territorial Jusrisdiction, & a right to controul the actions of those who were not of the community, as well as of those who were

2dly. as these Victorious Nations were Voluntary Societys the majority had the right to regulate the actions of individuals while they continu'd members of the society. this appears to have been the state of the originall contract betwixt Prince and deletion other /deletion People; Superior & Vassal, addition & of /addition individuals with regard to the whole community afterwards when all judges were regulated by the feudal laws; they were enforced by unclear oaths; &; of which the most Sacred was that taken by the Prince of his coronation, (before which he was not even after the demise of His Predeccesor; call'd King,) and the oath of fealty taken by the Peers; which oath the Peers in Henry 6th's time, did not deletion take /deletion addition consent to /addition till the King. had taken his; from hence is deriv'd in this & most other Kingdoms the oaths of Allegiance, which have of late been extended, to the Successors as well as to the King himself.

ye. Peers of what denomination soever, held originally of ye. Publick as well as of ye. K. & ow'd homage & fealty to ye. community, as ye. German Ps. do at this day to ye. Emp-e, not ye. Emp. this will appear from ye. following reasons;

1. ye. armies of these conquerors were as we have seen made up of different Nations under their respective Leaders, with one Gen. commanding ye. whole: ye. successors