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that naturalization doth conduce, but to the latter it 

 is utterly opposite, as putting too great pride and 

 means to do hurt in those that are meant to be kept 

 short and low. And yet in the very first case, of the 

 Roman proceeding, naturalization did never follow by 

 conquest, during all the growth of the Roman empire; 

 but was ever conferred by charters, or donations, 

 sometimes to cities and towns, sometimes to particu 

 lar persons, and sometimes to nations, until the time 

 of Adrian the emperor, and the law &quot; In orbe 

 &quot;Romano:&quot; and that law or constitution is not 

 referred to title of conquest and arms only, but to all 

 other titles ; as by the donation and testament of 

 kings, by submission and dedition of states, or the 

 like : so as this difference was as strange to them as 

 to us. And certainly I suppose it will sound 

 strangely, in the hearing of foreign nations, that the 

 law of England should &quot; ipso facto&quot; naturalize sub 

 jects of conquests, and shall not naturalize subjects 

 which grow unto the king by descent ; that is, 

 that it should confer the benefit and privilege of na 

 turalization upon such as cannot at the first but bear 

 hatred and rancour to the state of England, and have 

 had their hands in the blood of the subjects of Eng 

 land, and should deny the like benefit to those that 

 are conjoined with them by a more amiable mean ; 

 and that the law of England should confer naturali 

 zation upon slaves and vassals, for people conquered 

 are no better in the beginning, and should deny it to 

 freemen : I say, it will be marvelled at abroad, of 

 what complexion the laws of England be made, that 



