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were to be reputed as Statutes of the Kingdom, this last clause met with great opposition in the House of Lords, & wasm protests were enter'd against it, yet when sent down to the Commons, it pass'd without a Division.

The next bone of Contention was the Bill for restoring the City to its Ancient Rites & Priviledges, which was order'd in of the end of the last Parliament, but not prosecuted.

The Torys who were now the Majority within the House were determin'd by every Art to keep out their adversarys, in order to do this the more effectualy, they endeavor's to beat them at their own weapons & accordingly prepar'd a Bill not worded like the former that was simply to underline restore the City to its antient rights & priviledges, /underline but to reverse the Judgement in a foreign:Latin quo Warranto /foreign against