Hereditary Right.

THIS Right is own'd by the Church-men to be in the Queen by lineal Defcent from her royal Ancestors; together with that legal one which is derived from the Acts of Settlement. Thefe Jacobites likewife allow that the fame hereditary Right, in cafe of her Majefty's Decease, and in default of Heirs of her Body, would have been in the House of Hanover, as next in Succeffion in the Proteftant Line, even without the last Act for the further Limitation of the Crown to that illustrious Family; they conceiving that all Papifts are by Law for ever excluded from inheriting the Imperial Crown of thefe Realms. The Churchmen tie themselves down to Submiffion by two Bands of Allegiance: The Ma dern Whigs fuffer themselves to be fastened but by one Slip-Knot, to be made or un-made, as they fee good.

Popish Doctrine of Refiftance.

THIS Dodrine is certainly Popish as well as Whiggish. It was first broach'd by the Clergy of the Church of Rome, to keep thofe Princes in Awe, who grew uneafy at the Ufurpations of the Papacy. Whenever (fay the Jefuits) the Rights of the Church are invaded (which Invafion depends on the Pope and his Junto to determine) Subjects are bound in Confcience to rebell.' Whenever (fay the modern Whigs) the original Contract is broken (which Breach the Junto of Whigs pretend to be only capable to give Notice of) it becomes the indifpenfible Duty of Subjects to refift. N.B. If the Truth of this State is denied, the Authorities fhall be produced.

Antimonarchical Men.

MONARCHY is a Greek Word, and fignifies no more than the Government of one fingle Person, ANTI fignifies against. So that by Antimonarchical Men are meant fuch Perfons as are against the Government of a fingle Perfon. Now the modern Whigs point in two different Manners at the fame End: Some of them are for having five, fix, or feven Sovereigns; others of them are against any Sovereign at all.

Paffive Obedience.

THE HE CHURCH-MEN hold an abfolute Paffive-Obedience to be the Duty of the Subjects, agreeably to the pofitive Law of God, the conftant Doctrine of the Church, and the Language of all our Statutes made as well fince the Revolution as before it. At the fame Time they allow, that in Cafes where the Ruin of the Nation muft otherwife enfue,the Neceffity difpenfes with the Duty,

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and Self-prefervation takes Place before any other Law. The modern Whigs, on the contrary, make the Bounds of Allegiance fo uncertain, prefs the People fo hard to Refiftance, and pafs fo lightly over the Doctrine of Obedience, that they feem to make the Rule the Exception, and the Exception the Rule.

Moderation.

THIS Word admits amongst the modern Whigs of two very different Conftructions. When they are uppermoft, it fignifies Governing, or if you will, Domineering. When they are in Diftrefs, it implies a temperate Exercise of Power, and is ufed to raise the Compaffion of Mankind, and to obtain that Quarter which they never grant.

KENSINGTON, May 12, 1710.

The following Addrefs from the Borough of Newton, in the County of Lancaster, was prefented to her Majefty by John Ward, Efq; one of the Reprefentatives in Parliament for the faid Borough; introduced by the right honourable John Earl of Anglefey: Which Address was graciously received, and Mr. Ward bad the Honour to kifs her Majesty's Hand.

To the QUEEN's most excellent Majesty.

The humble Addrefs of the Steward, Bailiff and Burgeffes, of your Majesty's ancient Borough of Newton, in the County-Palatine of Lancaster, together with the Gentlemen, and most Subftantial Free-holders, of the Fee of Macker field containing twenty-two Townships) belonging to the Manour of Newton aforfaid.

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E your Majesty's moft Loyal and dutiful Subjects cannot at this Juncture acquit ourselves to your Majefty, and our own Confciences, without openly declaring (which we here do in the most folemn Manner) our utter Deteftation and Abhorrence of that Spirit of Blafphemy and Prophaneness, Schifm and Sedition, which hath of late fo infolently fhewed itself in this Land, and will fo certainly bring down upon it God's feverest Vengeance, if not timely prevented by your Majefty's great Piety and Wisdom.

When we with Grief reflect, how your Royal Grandfather (whofe Goodness you inherit) yielded to the Importunities of Republicans and Schifmaticks, till he became a Martyr, and the Loyalists, who adhered to him, a Prey to the implacable Malice of thofe Enemies to Monarchy; who, under the Pretext of Confcience and Duty, learned first to separate his Power from his Perfon, and then foon deftroyed both; continuing their Hypocrify to the End, in the Mock-form of a VOL. III.

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Trial,

Trial, and Pretence of Law and Judicature: And when we confider, how that horrid Crime of Regicide, while by fome feriously commemorated and lamented,is by others extenuated, if not excufed; and that the Law yet in Force for an Anniversary Humiliation is tranfgreffed and ridiculed: How the very fame Antimonarchical Tenets and Pofitions, which brought on that fad Catastrophe, are now revived, and openly and audaciously advanced and avowed: We cannot but with Reafon fear the like fatal Effects to your Sacred Majefty, and this Natior, if not timely prevented.

And as from the Bottom of our Hearts we moft chearfully recognize your Majefty, our Hereditary and Lawful Sovereign, and fincerely profefs ourselves Members of the Church of England, by Law eftablifhed, of which your Majefty is not only an Ornament, but also the Defender; fo we beg Leave, at the fame Time, to affure your Majefty, that we will, to the utmost of our Power, fupport and affift your Majefty against all Attempts, which may endanger your Royal Perfon or Government, our most Excellent Church, or the Proteftant Succeffion.

And, to that End, when your Majefty fhall, in your great Wifdom, call a new Parliament, we will be more careful than ever to chufe fuch Reprefentatives, as are most zealously affected to your Majefty, and the prefent Establifhment both in Church and State.

And, in the mean Time, we fhall not fail to implore Almighty God, so to preserve and bless your Majefty, that with Courage and Refolution, equal to the Impending Danger, you may put an Early and Effectual Stop to thefe Growing Evils; and alfo pray, that, as your Majefty hath been the Renowned Protector of Diftreffed Nations and People abroad, He, whofe Authority you have, and whofe Minifter alone you are, may make you the happy Inftrument of freeing your own People from all juft Fear and Apprehenfions of having any illegal Attempts made upon their most happy Conftitution in Church or State here at home.

KENSINGTON,

KENSINGTON, June 1, 1710.

This Day the following Addrefs was prefented to her Majefly by the right honourable Sir John Holland, Baronet, Comptroller of her Majesty's Houfhold, and Afh Windham, Efq; Knight of the Shire for the County of Norfolk, accompanied by feveral Gentlemen of the faid County, and the City of Norwich; introduced by his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, Lord Steward of her Majesty's Houfbold: Which Addrefs her Majefty received very graciously; and all the Gentlemen bad the Honour of killing her Majefty's Hand.

To the QUEEN's most excellent Majesty.

The humble Addrefs of the Deputy-Lieutenants, Militia Officers, Gentlemen and others of the City of Norwich.

Moft Gracious Sovereign,

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T is with inexpreffible Concern we obferve your Reign made uneafy by Miftaken and ill-defigning Perfons, fo induftrioufly keeping up Diftinctions and Divifions, amongst your Subjects, contrary to your Majefty's repeated Recommendations of UNION. It might, with great Reafon, have been expected, that the unparallel'd Wisdom and Goodnefs, with which you exercise your Government, would have compofed your Subjects into an univerfal Acquiefcence in your Conduct; and that the Miniftry you have fo wifely made Choice of, and who have acquitted themfelves with great Prudence and Fidelity to your Majesty and their Country, fhould not have been fo invidiously ftruck at. The ill Treatment your Majefty, they, and your Great Council, meet with, we heartily lament, and defire that our Deteftation of this Kind of Behaviour may be recorded to Pofterity.

We are at a Loss to account for the Carriage of fome Perfons, who,in Notion, maintain an unlimited Submiffion to be due to the Worst of Princes, and yet, in Practice, discharge their Obedience so imperfectly to the BEST: Whilft by unfair Infinuations they represent your Majesty as wanting in your Care of the Church of England, notwithstanding the great Bounty you have fhewn to the Clergy of it, the bright Example you are in it, and your reiterated Profeffions of your true Concern for the fame. But as the Reverse of what we complain of, we declare our great Satisfaction in your Administration, and are perfwaded the Impartial World will join with us in doing Juftice to your Majefty in that refpect. We humbly affure your Majefty (whom God long preferve) of our Readiness, at all Times,to defend your Perfon and Government against the Pretender, and all his open and fecret Abettors, and all other your Enemies; and to maintain the Church of England, and the Proteftant Succeffion in the Illuftrious Houfe of Hanover; and that we fhall, in every refpect, demean ourfelves as becomes good Subjects to the beft of PRINCES.

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We hope, that thefe Approaches of your People to you, which fhould be an Inftance of their Refpect to your Majefty, fhall not be made use of to put Difficulties upon you: But that all your Subjects will continually ftudy to make your Reign eafy, who have done all that a wife and good Prince could do to make them fo.

We beg Leave to congratulate your Majefty upon the fuccessful Opening of this Campaign, and hope it prefages an Approaching PEACE, that will be glorious to your Majesty in procuring it, and fafe to your Dominions, and the Nations in Alliance with you; and that Peace may be established at home, as well as abroad, and thereby your Majesty's full Intentions for the Happiness of your People, the better to be obtained, we fhall, with utmost Care, upon all Occafions, cultivate a good Accord with our Fellow Subjects; in Teftimony whereof, we most Heartily and Chearfully hereunto subscribe,

Your Majesty's most Obedient, and moft Faithful

Subjects and Servants.

July 30, 1710.

The following Addrefs from the County of Kent was this Day prefented to ber Majefty by Sir Thomas Palmer, Bart, and David Polhill, Efq; their Representatives in Parliament, attended by feveral of the most confiderable Gentlemen of the faid County; introduced by the right honourable the Earl of Dorfet and Middlefex: Which Address her Majesty received most graciously, and all the Gentlemen bad the Honour of kiffing her Majefty's Hand.

The Humble Addrefs of the Deputy-Lieutenants, Juftices of the Peace, Clergy, Gentlemen, and Freeholders of the County of Kent, aflembled at the Affizes held at MaidStone the 25th Day of July, 1710.

Most Gracious Sovereign,

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E your Majesty's most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects do humbly beg Leave to congratulate your Majefty upon the early and continued Succeffes of this glorious Campaign: And at the fame Time, moft gratefully to acknowledge the many Bleffings we daily enjoy, under your Majeity's Happy Administration. And it is with the utmolt Deteftation we reflect upon, thof Turbulent Spirits, thofe Fomenters of Sedition, who even in your Majefty's rious and exemplary Reign would falfly infinuate, that the Church, the moft facred Part of our Conftitution, is in Danger, notwithstanding the unparallel'd Victories with which God has bleffed your Majefty's Arms abroad,

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