02 OF GENERAL NATURALIZATION. 



pie benefit ; for it gives him power to purchase free 

 hold and inheritance to his own use, and likewise 

 enables the children born after his denization to 

 inherit. But yet nevertheless he cannot make title 

 or convey pedigree from any ancestor paramount ; 

 for the law thinks not good to make him in the same 

 degree with a subject born, because he was once an 

 alien, and so might once have been an enemy : and 

 &quot; nemo subito fingitur,&quot; men s affections cannot be so 

 settled by any benefit, as when from their nativity 

 they are inbred and inherent. 



And the fourth degree, which is the perfect 

 degree, is of such a person as neither is enemy, nor 

 could have been enemy in time past, nor can be 

 enemy in time to come ; and therefore the law gives 

 unto him the full benefit of naturalization. 



Now, Mr. Speaker, if these be the true steps and 

 paces of the law, no man can deny but whosoever is 

 born under the .king s obedience, never could &quot; in 

 &quot; aliquo puncto temporis&quot; be an enemy, a rebel 

 he might be, but no enemy, and therefore in reason 

 of law is naturalized. Nay, contrariwise, he is bound 

 &quot; jure nativitatis&quot; to defend this kingdom of England 

 against all invaders or rebels ; and therefore as he is 

 obliged to the protection of arms, and that per 

 petually and universally, so he is to have the perpetual 

 and universal benefit and protection of law, which is 

 naturalization. 



For form of pleading, it is true that hath been 

 said, that if a man would plead another to be an 

 alien, he must not only set forth negatively and pri- 



