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A Friend of the author, diflatisfied with fome of 

 his ftriclures on the ancient conftitution of the 

 Englifh government, and on the foreft-law, in 

 the firft edition of his work*, fent him the 

 following remarks ; which feemed to him fo ingenious, 

 that he defired permiflion to print them in the prefent 

 edition. 



A. NEW light is fuppofed to have broken upon the 

 European world in late times, after centuries of darknefs 

 following the deftrudlion of the Roman empire ; and it 

 has been boldly aflerted, that the inhabitants of England, 

 having neither freedom, nor fenfe to demand it, were 

 flaves from the firft entry of our Saxon anceftors, till the 

 overthrow of defpotifm by the republicans in the reign 

 of Charles I. or perhaps till the revolution under William 

 III. The author of Obfervations on Foreft Scenery, 

 feems in fome degree to have given countenance to this 

 opinion. He allows indeed, that there were " fome traces 



* Vol. II. p. 9. to 15. 



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