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your lordships, that his two capacities are in no sort 

 confounded. And secondly, that as his capacity 

 politic worketh so upon his natural person, as it 

 makes it differ from all other the natural persons of 

 his subjects : so &quot; e converse,&quot; his natural body 

 worketh so upon his politic, as the corporation of the 

 crown utterly differeth from all other corporations 

 within the realm. 



For the first, I will vouch you the very words 

 which I find in that notable case of the duchy, where 

 the question was, whether the grants of king 

 Edward VI. for duchy lands should be avoided in 

 points of nonage ? The case as your lordships know 

 well, is reported by Mr. Plowden as the general re 

 solution of all the judges of England, and the 

 king s learned counsel, Rouswell the solictor only 

 excepted ; there I find the said words, Comment* 

 fol. 215. &quot; There is in the king not a body natural 

 &quot; alone, nor a body politic alone, but a body natural 

 &quot; and politic together : &quot; corpus corporatum in cor- 

 &quot; pore naturali, et corpus naturale in corpore corpo- 

 &quot; rato.&quot; The like I find in the great case of the lord 

 Berkley set down by the same reporter, Comment, 

 fol. 234. &quot; Though there be in the king two bodies, 

 &quot; and that those two bodies are conjoined, yet are they 

 &quot; by no means confounded the one by the other.&quot; 



Now then to see the mutual and reciprocal 

 intercourse, as I may term it, or influence or com 

 munication of qualities, that these bodies have the 

 one upon the other : the body politic of the crown 



