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dissolved, the clerk cannot be said to have such a 

 relation to the parliament, which is not then at all 

 in being, as the prothonotaries of the courts of 

 Westminster have to their courts, which stand only 

 adjourned. Besides, there cannot be an example 

 found, by which it may appear, that ever any record 

 of the first kind, where the transcript is into the 

 chancery, was made in parliament; but only sitting 

 the house, and in their view. But this I offer to 

 your lordship s farther consideration, desiring your 

 favourable censure of my fancy herein ; which, with 

 whatsoever ability I may pretend to, shall ever be 

 desirous to serve you, to whom I shall perpetually 

 own myself 



Your Lordship s most humble servant, 



J. SELDEN. 



From the Temple, February 



XIV, CIDDCXXI. 



