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therefore, Mr. Speaker, if it were good for us then, 

 it is good for us now, and not to be prised the less 

 because we paid not so dear for it. But a more full 

 answer to this objection I refer over to that, which 

 will come after, to be spoken touching surety and 

 greatness. 



The fourth objection, Mr. Speaker, is not pro 

 perly an objection, but rather a pre-occupation of an 

 objection of the other side ; for it may be said, and 

 very materially, Whereabout do we contend ? The 

 benefit of naturalization is by the law, in as many as 

 have been or shall be born since his majesty s coming 

 to the crown, already settled and invested. There is 

 no more then but to bring the &quot; ante-nati&quot; into the 

 degree of the &quot; post-nati, that men grown that have 

 well deserved, may be in no worse case than children 

 which have not deserved, and elder brothers in no 

 worse case than younger brothers ; so as we stand 

 upon &quot; quiddam,&quot; not &quot; quantum,&quot; being but a little 

 difference of time of one generation from another. 

 To this, Mr. Speaker, it is said by some, that the law 

 is not so, but that the &quot; post-nati&quot; are aliens as well 

 as the rest. A point that I mean not much to 

 argue, both because it hath been well spoken to by 

 the gentleman that spoke last before me ; and 

 because I do desire in this case and in this place 

 to speak rather of conveniency than of law ; only 

 this I will say, that that opinion seems to me con 

 trary to reason of law, contrary to form of pleading 

 in law, and contrary to authority and experience of 

 law. For reason of law, when I meditate of it, me- 





