TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD KE N Y O N, LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF HIS MAJESTY'S COURT OF KING'S BENCH, &c. &c. AT a time when abilities and taАта lents are most shamefully prostituted to the execrable purposes of decrying fubordination to civil power, and enervating the arm of lawful government, my grateful boast is the permiffion to dedicate to your Lordship these humble efforts to explain the nature and reafons of our conftitution and government to the ignorant, and to enforce their energy and against the malevolent. plary leffons upon the perfections of our conftitution and government have taught the nation to admire your ability, A 2 obligations Your exem ability, and exult in your difpofition to preferve them in full purity and vigor. And I feel the fatisfactory conviction of bearing a truly patriotic attachment to our conftitution, whilst I am permitted to have the honor of MY LORD, YOUR LORDSHIP'S DEVOTED HUMBLE SERVANT, FRANCIS PLOWDEN. CONTENTS, |