Memoirs of the life and conduct of DrFrancis Atterbury ..from his birth, to his banishmentAddress'd to the RtHonWilliam Pulteney, Esq . THE. PREFACE T Wds an old Law among the Lo-crians of Italy^ as rve are infor??idby very good ^Authorities^ That theMan who proposd to make any new Law, ftiould be obliged to do it with a Rope about his Neck, in which hewas to be ftrangled forthwith, if he faild ofcarrying his Point, and the M^rity determinedhis Proportion prejudicial to the Publick. I DO Nt find that there is any fuchCuftommw fubfifiing in any part of Criftcndom ^ andthe Reafon, ferhaps, may k
Memoirs of the life and conduct of DrFrancis Atterbury ..from his birth, to his banishmentAddress'd to the RtHonWilliam Pulteney, Esq . THE. PREFACE T Wds an old Law among the Lo-crians of Italy^ as rve are infor??idby very good ^Authorities^ That theMan who proposd to make any new Law, ftiould be obliged to do it with a Rope about his Neck, in which hewas to be ftrangled forthwith, if he faild ofcarrying his Point, and the M^rity determinedhis Proportion prejudicial to the Publick. I DO Nt find that there is any fuchCuftommw fubfifiing in any part of Criftcndom ^ andthe Reafon, ferhaps, may k, hecaufe all our Neigh-bouring Monarchies are Ahfolute^ and their Laws made * Diodor. Sicul. Polybius. Hierodes apud in Timocratem, ^^c. [ xii ] fn^de by the EdiEhs of the King only. Had this pe-^culiar Cuflom obtain d in our Conftitution^ I am indoubt whether the Advantage^ or Prejudice of it,would have been o;reater. 0 N the one hand^ it would rid us of a Numberof bufy Fools (for Fools will be meddlings let the Confequences be never fo haz^ardom) and it would con^tribute to deter Knaves (who have ever little pr
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