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monarchy--A47901	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	A plea for limited monarchy, as it was established in this nation, before the late war in an humble addresse to His Excellency, General Monck / by a zealot for the good old laws of his country, before any faction or caprice, with additions.	1660.0		.xml	application/xml	3655	105	57	To shew how it complied with our Laws and Constitutions , let it suffice that ( Monarchy in these Nations , being more ancient then story or record , more Venerable than Tradition it self ) our Laws were ( as it were ) under that Climate , habituated to that ayre and dyet , grafted into that stock ; and though they have ( God be thanked ) forgot their Norman , yet they will hardly learn Greek , much lesse , Vtopian : That , in the late Protectours times , our Lawyers with one voice , importuned him , rather to assume the stile and power of a King , to which , they found all our Laws were shaped , then retain that of a Protectour , unknown to the Law : That nothing hath rendred our Architectours of a Common wealth more obnoxious , then that their infinite discords in other things , generally , agreed in the necessity of subverting all our Fundamentals , in order to their Designe ; which hath likewise oblig'd all sober men , and true Patriots ( even the chiefest Pillars of the Parliaments Cause , in the late War ) to unite themselves , with the Royall Interest , as not enduring to hear of those violent and dangerous alterations , which they see a Republick must introduce . This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A47901 of text R227219 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing L1285).	cache/monarchy--A47901.xml	txt/monarchy--A47901.txt