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Bedford</rs>
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Upon an Informacon Exhibited in the Court of Queens bench by her majesties Attorney Generall against<lb></lb>
the said Deft.</p>
<p n="32">The Informacon Sets forth that the Deft being a seditious man & disaffected to the Governmt. & intending the<lb></lb>
Establishmt. of his Crowne of this Kingdome Constituted by Act of Parliamt. to weaken & totally to subvert &<lb></lb>
cause to be beleived the limitacon of the succession of the Crowne after her Maties decrease & in Default of Issue of<lb></lb>
her Matie to the Dutchesse Dowag or of Hanover & the heires of her boddy being protestants by the Statutes in such<lb></lb>
Case made to be in effectuall & of no force And that Kings or Queens of this Kingdom with & by Authority of<lb></lb>
Parliamt. cannot make Laws & statutes of sufficient force & validity to limit & buid the Crowne & the descent<lb></lb>
limitacon & Governmt. thereof The 20th. day of October in the 12th. yeare of her Matie apnd paroch to Marie de Armby in<lb></lb>
the Ward of Cheape a false & scandalous Libell Intituled</p>
<p n="33">The Hereditary right of the Crowne of England asserted the History of the succession since the Conquest clear'd & the true English<lb></lb>
Constitucon unidicated from the misrepresentacons of Dr. Higdons view & desire wherein some mistakes also of our Comon Historians<lb></lb>
are certifyed & sevll. particulars relating to the succession & to the little of the House of suffolk are now first published from antient<lb></lb>
Recordr. & Originall M:SS. together with an authentick Copy of King Henry 8s. Wills</p>
<p n="34">Writt printed & published & caused to be writt printed & published In wch Libell of & concerning the Establishmt. of the succession of ye Crown of<lb></lb>
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by Act of Parliamt. & of & concerning the power & authority of parliamt. to limit the succession of the Crown & of<lb></lb>
& concerning one Dr. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15025_occ15">Higden</rs>
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in the title of the sd. Booke menconed are contained (int as) divers false Standalous<lb></lb>
& seditious matters to wit in one part thereof to the effort following</p>
<p n="35">This true the Docter (meaning <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15025_occ16">Docter Higden</rs>
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) acknowledges in plain words that the Crown (meaning the Crown of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15025_geo22">England</rs>
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is hereditary & he denys it to be elective but wt kind of Inheritance can be mean consistently with him self first he Asserts that the<lb></lb>
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may be limited by parliamt. this I will not dispute but it follows that it is as Inheritance which may be taken<lb></lb>
from one given to another as often as the Parliamt. pleases which seems to be an Inheritance very different from what is<lb></lb>
usually understood by hereditary Monarchy for it is truly elective since the parliamt. chooses or may choose the succesion<lb></lb>
a lively & it is more elective here than in other elective Kingdomes for in all others the elected have a right for life in<lb></lb>
this a new one may be elected every Session</p>
<p n="36">And in another part thereof to the effect following</p>
<p n="37">The Docter (meaning Dr. Higden) in his crews could not avoid seeing evident proofes that the Crown of England was<lb></lb>
hereditary therefore he acknowledged it versally & denyed it really as utterly destructive to his System of possion<lb></lb>
he may understand words as he pleases but all other writers of all nations & the Generallity of all men understand by an<lb></lb>
hereditary Crowne a <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15025_geo24">Monarchy entaild</rs>
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on one family & descending successively to the Line all heirs of it such are the<lb></lb>
Monarchies of France Spaine portugall Sweeden <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15025_geo25">Denmark Hungary</rs>
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& all other hereditary Dominious the world<lb></lb>
such is the English Monarchy governed successively above Nine hundred year's by the same royall family which<lb></lb>
(saith a great Author) I beleive hath the advantage in point of Antiquity above any other in Europe & as farr<lb></lb>
as we know in the world but if the most antient hereditary family in the world hath a not true right of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15025_geo26">Inheritance</rs>
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if prssripcon<lb></lb>
of Nine hundred yeares is nothing against new possessers there is surely no right to Governmt. at all nor any time right<lb></lb>
of Inheritance publick or private but every thing is every mans & right prescription property are sounds without significacon</p>
<p n="38">And in an other part thereof to the effect following</p>
<p n="39">In this undertaking I shall confine myself wholly to matters of fact & therefore I shall not dispute the Authority of 13 Eliz. Capt no which<lb></lb>
makes it high Treaser during the Queens life & forfeiture of Goods & Chattles after her death to say that an Act of Parliamt. wch<lb></lb>
not of sufficient force to Limit & bind the Descent of the Crowne neither shall I in the least question the power of parliamt.<lb></lb>
to entail the succession These matters are as much out of my way as they are above my reach & therefore I am very well<lb></lb>
contented the Doctor (meaning Docter Higden) should abound in his owne sence upon them I shall<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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here observe is that what ever power kings with their Parliamt.<lb></lb>
may have do Jure upon such occasions it is howover true in fact that no Act of Limitacon<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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ever yet effectually exclude<lb></lb>
the next Heire by proxnnity of blood but sooner or later providence how hitherto so Ordered it that these who were first in the<lb></lb>
Line of Descent have at length gain'd the Crowne notwithstanding all parliamentary provisions to the contrary</p>
<p n="40">To the great disturbance of the peace & tranguillity of this Kingdome In Contempt of the Queen & her Law's<lb></lb>
To the Evill Example of all others in the like Case Offending and against the peace of the Queen her<lb></lb>
Crowne & dignity</p>
<p n="41">To this the Deft has ptended not Guilty</p>
<p n="42">The Case</p>
<p n="43">As to the writeing printing & publishing this prtended Libell</p>
<p n="44">The only Evidence for the Queen are Smith the Bookseller James the Printer of the books & a Servant Boy<lb></lb>
of his about 14 yeaks of age:</p>
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