THE DEDICATION.

To the Right Honourable LORD KENYON,
BARON KENYON, of Gredington, in the
County of Flint, LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
of his MAJESTY'S COURT of KING'S
BENCH, &c. &c.

AT a time when abilities and talents are most shamefully proftituted 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 reasons of our constitution and government to the ignorant, and to enforce their energy and obligations against the malevolent.Your exemplary leffons upon the perfections of our conftitution and government have taught the nation to admire your 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 honour of fubfcribing myself, with respect and esteem,

MY LORD,

YOUR LORDSHIP'S

DEVOTED HUMBLE SERVANT,
FRANCIS PLOWDEN.

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